On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 12:14:55 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Then he wanted to play CDs. ... I had a look round, and found KsCD, which will indeed play audio CDs without trying to rip them to audio files first. As far as I know, this is the only GUI Linux app that can do so.
Day 84: KsCD would only play one track at a time before stopping. Then it gets into a funny state where it won’t skip to the next track without a bit of faffing about. Had a look online, discovered that it hasn’t had much TLC in a long time. After some experimentation on my own machine, I discovered that VLC will also play audio CDs directly without having to rip them first. Set up VLC for him, and was even able to make it the default app that comes up and starts playing when an audio CD is inserted. Just a couple of issues: * For the first few seconds after putting in a disc, playback stutters a little as it seems to be scanning all the tracks to determine their durations. Easy enough to pause playback until this process completes, after which it goes quite smoothly. * Playback order goes by the lexical names it assigns to the tracks, not the actual track order on the disc. Thus, “Track 10.wav” plays before “Track 1.wav”. But he’s not too worried... All in all, the desktop Linux experience seems to be holding up well.