1/2 SOLVED: Re: sound on blade 1500?

[Craig Butler]

On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 11:24 +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 02:33:29AM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 02:19:25AM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > no change. I don't think the issue is in volume, because
> > > > it's not just quiet, but completely silent. I suspect
> > > > the cd output is just not going anywhere
> > > 
> > > apparently I need an audio cable...
> > > 
> > > got one of a PC, plugged one end to the CDR, but
> > > can't find where to plug the other end on the motherboard..
> > > 
> > > I'getting more stupid by the minute..
> > 
> > I've found the 1500 motherboard diagram:
> > 
> > http://www.sunshack.org/data/sh/2.1.8/infoserver.central/data/syshbk/Devices/System_Board/SYSBD_SunBlade1500.html
> > 
> > Is "CD-IN (Not used)", in the mid left, my connector?
> > Probably not, the PC audio cable doesn't fit there.
> 
> well, I got mp3 playing at least:
> 
> HAMOR> mpg321 4207.mp3 
> High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2, and 3.
> Version 0.59q (2002/03/23). Written and copyrights by Joe Drew.
> Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
> THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
> Title  : 1rack08                         Artist:                               
> Album  :                                 Year  :                               
> Comment:                                 Genre :                               
> 
> Playing MPEG stream from 4207.mp3 ...
> MPEG 1.0 layer III, 56 kbit/s, 44100 Hz mono
> 
> But would be interesting to find out if cdrom playing
> is simply not possible (nowhere to connect the audio cable?)
> on blade 1500..
> 
> Please advise
> 
> many thanks

Could you not just use something like the digital audio extraction in
the cd audio player plugin (built with xmms) to play your tracks
digitally without using the legacy analog connector ??? besides who
listens to audio cd's anymore..... so last year ;)

/Craig B