[H-GEN] CD (Playing) Problems

[Harry Phillips]

James Mills wrote:
>>
>>May sound like an obvious question but do the little analogue cable 
>>going from the CD drive to the sound card?
> 
> 
> Is this necessary in order to play audio cds ?
> 

Sometimes, depends, most modern players can play using the data cable.

> It's not really that I want to play them, but rather that cdparanoia
> complains about accessing the device.
> 

Have you Googled and man'ed to see if you can change the setting for the 
program/s from /dev/cdrom to /dev/scd0?

> I wish to rip my 50 odd CDs of music :)
> 

I use grip, I rip them to OGG files.

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Regards,
Harry Phillips