Pradhap 's UNIX Corner

Sunday December 16, 2007

Playing audio CD in Solaris

Different ways of playing audio CD in Solaris 

 * Solaris Express and SXDE  by default ships

        - rhythmbox  (/usr/bin/rhythmbox) for organizing and playing audio CD's

       -  sound-juicer (/usr/bin/sound-juicer) for playing audio CD's

If you wish to play audio CD's from Xmms . Follow the below steps .

*) install Xmms from blastwave.org
*) start Xmms right click and goto Options -> Preferences

* ) Select Solaris audio plugin (libSolaris.so)

*) Click on CD Audio Player plugin and then click on Configure button

*) Make sure you enter the correct information for  Device:  and to a vaild Directory:
    hint: to find the correct CD/DVD drive info you can run "rmformat" command

*) Insert the CD into drive and click on add files and browse the directory which you have pointed in previous step.

 Enjoy music !!!