An Easier Way to Play CD's.

[Garrett Cooper]

Parv wrote:
> in message <43E2E509.7070207 at magidesign.com>, wrote Payne thusly...
>   
>> I have a question. Is there a way to get cd to play with XMMS, I
>> can only get them to play in VLC, but on track at a time. If there
>> are any cool audio cd players let me know.
>>     
>
> There are some ports in audio categories; workman is the one i like
> due to large small enough dependencies and generally simple enough
> interface.
>
> I don't know if xmms can play a CD; many eons ago i tried to play a
> CD via xmms on FreeBSD [34].x which resulted in machine lockup.
>
>
>   - Parv
>
>   
xmms does play CDs quite nicely now (can't speak for way back when). 
Just don't do something silly like try to mount the music CD or you'll 
end up confused since no mounting is required for audio CDs.
-Garrett