How can I play audio CDs on an HP workstations CD-ROM drive?
Updated: 03/29/01 Use xmcd. Xmcd is a full-featured CD Player utility package including xmcd, a CD Player for the X window system using the Motif graphical user interface, and cda, a command-line driven, text-mode CD Player which also features a curses-based, screen-oriented mode. Both utilities transform your CD-ROM, CD-R or CD-RW drive into a stereo CD player, allowing you to play music CDs on your computer. A CD database feature is supported, maintaining the disc artist/title, track titles, and arbitrary text (such as band information and song lyrics). A large Xmcd database can be downloaded from the Liverpool archive; the name of the package is xmcd_cddb. Moreover, xmcd supports CD recognition via CDDB[TM], and even supports using a proxy server to get to CDDB[TM] servers from behind a firewall. Xmcd controls the CD-ROM drive only, and does not control the built-in audio hardware on SGI, Sun, HP and some other workstations. Thus, there is no way to make the CD-ROM play via the work
