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

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 11:56:09AM +0000, Craig Butler wrote:
> 
> 
> 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 ???

er.. I can't be bothered..

> besides who
> listens to audio cd's anymore..... so last year ;)

I do, but very rarely on computers.

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