Audio CDs Not Playing

[Dutch Ingraham]

On 08/02/2014 10:34 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On 2014-07-31, Dutch Ingraham <stoa at gmx.us> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the info, Ben.  I had actually seen something on that issue
>> in an old (May 2008) daemonforums post while researching this problem.
>> There, the poster suggested using amarok or xmms - programs capable of
>> "digital audio extraction" ( I don't know what that is ) and in which it
>> was implied that cdcontrol was not capable of.
>>
>> xmms is deprecated and I don't want the hundreds of files that come with
>> amarok.  I suppose I could try something like audacious, but as noted,
>
> Playing audio CDs with xmms and digital audio extraction works just
> fine.  It should also work with audacious but this appears to be
> broken.
>
Thanks - I wasn't aware there was a problem with that vis-a-vis 
audacious - which was my back-up if I couldn't get vlc working (which I 
did).