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Andrew T Duchowski writes
> Hi, 
> 
> I've had several replies as to my problems with audio discs and
> playing them on my CD-ROM.  I've tried several suggestions, but
> none of them work.  My CD-ROM still complains that audio disks
> are unrecognizable (although I was able to read siggraph '92
> proceedings disc [ISO 9660 format]).
> 
> I've been told by some that they have the same problem, and 
> by others that CDPlayer0.8 (what I have) doesn't work and I
> should get CDPlayer2.1.
> 

     Since this subject is of more general interest, I'm posting this for
general consumption.

     Anyhow, CDplayer0.8 works quite nicely on my 'station (mono slab, 8Mb
RAM, 105 Mb hard drive, NeXT CD-ROM drive).  The trick is that you have to 
start CDPlayer *before* you insert the audio CD in the drive.

     Audio CD's aren't _directly_ readable (has to do with some copyright
issues), but the player software works by sending SCSI commands to the 
drive (from CDPlayer0.8 README):

===============================================================================
	When a track is requested for playing, cdplayer will send a request to  
the CD SCSI controller to begin audio play, and then exit.  If the request  
fails, an error message will be produced.  Otherwise, the specified track will  
play until completion or another request is made (i.e. cdplayer is used to play  
another track, pause, etc.)!
===============================================================================

     It does make a neat diversion until NS 3.0 arrives :-)!

Todd          uunet!bolshoi!enders          NeXTMail Welcome!!!
              enders@plains.nodak.edu

In article <19562@plains.NoDak.edu> enders@bolshoi.uucp writes:
> [..]
>     Anyhow, CDplayer0.8 works quite nicely on my 'station (mono slab, 8Mb
>RAM, 105 Mb hard drive, NeXT CD-ROM drive).  The trick is that you have to 
>start CDPlayer *before* you insert the audio CD in the drive.
>
>     Audio CD's aren't _directly_ readable (has to do with some copyright
>issues), but the player software works by sending SCSI commands to the 
>drive (from CDPlayer0.8 README):
>

I'm posting what my solution was to my CD problem because some people
were having similar problems:

1. The above is correct.  Nextstop doesn't understand audio cd's because
it's looking for file systems to mount up and audio cd's aren't FS's.

2. The device number on CDPlayer0.8 (CDaudio) refers to the order in
which the CD-ROM sits on the scsi bus.  In my case, I have 100M
and 660M hardrives sitting on the bus inside the cube, plus the
floppy drive.  So I thought that my CD-ROM scsi id and the logical
numbers matched at 4.  But this is not so.  I'm not sure exactly
how the order goes, but from trial and error it turns out my CD-ROM
is logical device 2.  Go figure.  So, if all else fails, I guess
you can try all logical device numbers to see which order your
CD-ROM is.

3. A final note on installing CDPlayer or CDaudio: follow the 
instructions as to the setuid things.  Plus, make sure that both
programs are chown'ed to root.  I had them as operator, and I think
this may be the reason why when I pressed Load, I never got the 
prompt panel.

So those were all the things that I did to finally get the thing
going.  Anyway, it sounds great!  And as usual, I have to thank
the many people on c.s.n.m. for helping me out.  This is by far
the best newsgroup for getting problems fix.  Thanks for the patience
and the help!

Andrew
andrewd@cs.tamu.edu

In article <1992Aug6.233401.582@tamsun.tamu.edu> andrewd@tamsun.tamu.edu  
(Andrew T Duchowski) writes:

> I've been told by some that they have the same problem, and 
> by others that CDPlayer0.8 (what I have) doesn't work and I
> should get CDPlayer2.1.

I have a copy of CDaudio2.1 - is this the same program?

CDaudio is pretty nice (and it came with a demo of a version-to-be
that looked VERY nice)...however, it's shareware, and it costs
$75.  When you consider that a low-end actual cd player can be
purchased for about the same (and that the NeXT cd-rom drive
certainly does not constitute a high-end cd player), there is
absolutely no way I can justify spending that much for such
an application...I would be very surprised if many people were
registering this.

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