xmms: Digital Audio Extraction not working

[Jason]

Mark Ovens wrote:

> [Followup-To: set to -questions]
>
> Please excuse the X-posting but I'm not sure which is the better list 
> for this problem.
>
> I've got 3 SCSI optical drives mounted in an external case so I can't 
> use an analogue audion cable but need to use DAE for playing CDs. The 
> drives support DAE as they all work in xmcd, but in xmms-1.2.10 I get 
> a stream of this error:
>
> Message: read_audio_data() failed:  Inappropriate ioctl for device (25)
>
> Searching the mail archives I found this patch for libxine which, 
> after looking at the xmms source, appeared as though it might work; it 
> didn't (same error):
>
> #ifndef CDIOCREADAUDIO
> struct ioc_read_audio
> {
>         u_char address_format;
>         union msf_lba address;
>         int nframes;
>         u_char* buffer;
> };
>
> #define CDIOCREADAUDIO _IOWR('c',31,struct ioc_read_audio)
> #endif
>
> Although that same code is in the xmcd source.
>
> I also tried the patch from PR ports/57198; that didn't work either 
> (same error). 57198 was closed because "Digital audio extraction using 
> ATAng is supported in xmms 1.2.9" implemented in PR ports/62127. 
> Either that only works for ATA drives or it got broken again in 1.2.10.
>
> What I suspect is that xmms is not correctly identifying the 
> capabilitie of my drives.
>
> Can anyone help me out, either with a patch they have that works or 
> point me in the right direction to try and fix it myself. xmcd is OK 
> but I prefer xmmx as it plays audio files as well and, havin 3 drives, 
> I can choose the drive in a running xmms whereas xmcd needs the drive 
> pecifying at start-up.
>
> TIA
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
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Are you running current? If so upgrade to a more recent version, it has 
been fixed.  If it is the stable release try current?