How can I play audio CDs in OpenBSD?
It is possible to play audio CDs by either having the CD drive play the disc and send analog audio to the sound card, or by reading the audio data and sending the digital samples to the sound card over the PCI bus. To play an audio CD using the analog output of your CD-ROM drive, you can • Use the headphones output, usually at the front side of the drive. • Connect the audio output at the back side to your audio card. Yes, this is a supplementary cable next to the data (SCSI/IDE) and power cables. A nice command line utility called cdio(1), has been included in the base system. Called without parameters, it will enter interactive mode. If you want to play the CD right away, just enter $ cdio play This will play from the first CD-ROM drive, cd0, by default. Note that the user running cdio should have permissions to read the CD-ROM device (e.g. /dev/rcd0c). As this device is only readable by root or the operator group by default, for convenience you may want to add the user to the operat
