[H-GEN] CD (Playing) Problems

[Michael Anthon]

James Mills wrote:

>Is this necessary in order to play audio cds ?
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Normally [1], yes

>It's not really that I want to play them, but rather that cdparanoia
>complains about accessing the device.
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For ripping you don't need the cable

Cheers,
Michael

[1] For values of "Normally" apporaching all programs that don't default 
to the idiot idea of reading the CD directly then playing the sound via 
your sound card.  Windows Media Player is the only one I know of that 
does this by default... but you wouldn't be using that would you? 8^)