MMCDPLAY

mmcdplay − command line CD player to digital audio device

mmcdplay [-i cd_device] [-o audio_device] [-t start_track]

mmcdrip cd_device start_track <end_track | all>

This manual page documents the GNU version of mmcdplay. mmcdplay plays audio from an audio CD to an OSS sound device (default /dev/dsp). mmcdplay does not use the audio playing capabilities of the CD drive but instead extracts the digital audio and plays it through the digital audio sound card. This is especially useful for computers that use external USB digital audio modules. It can also improve CD playback fidelity, since the D/A chips in CD drives are sometimes not the highest quality. mmcdrip "rips" audio tracks from an audio CD into separate .wav files named audio_01.wav, audio_02.wav, etc. cdda2wav also performs basically the same function, although mmcdrip is faster on some CD drives and has a simpler set of options.

Reads from an audio CD and plays to an OSS sound device.

cd_device

Is the use specific CD device (default /dev/cdrom)

audio_device

Is the specific OSS audio device (default /dev/dsp)

start_track

Start playing/ripping with given track number. CD tracks are numbered starting with 1 (not 0)

end_track

Stop ripping on this track number. "all" means that all tracks from start_track to the end will be ripped.

−−h

display version and help

To play using default devices starting at track 1

mmcdplay

To play to alternate sound card /dev/dsp1 starting with track 7

mmcdplay -o /dev/dsp1 -t 7

Download the tarball from http://www.michaelminn.com/linux/mmcdplay/mmcdplay.tgz, decompress and make install. mmcdplay is a standalone executable that uses only libc and libpthread.

tar -zxvf mmcdplay.tgz

make install

Written by Michael Minn

Report bugs to author. See <michaelminn.com> for current contact info.

Copyright © 2004 Michael Minn. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.