Re: looking for the ideal CD-player

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Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.grip.user
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On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 19:08, Paul Cassella wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 [email protected] wrote:
> > I can't find any way to turn off looping at the end of a CD.
> > I dug around in the code and found something called playloop
> > which is initialise to TRUE, but there's no way to set it FALSE.
> > I've got around this temprarily by editing the source to set it
> > FALSE and recompiling, but this doesn't seem to be ideal...
>
> Click the "123" button above the exit button.  A button with an oval and
> arrows will appear.  Click it, and it should turn into an arrow pointing
> at a wall.
>
Thanks, I found this a couple of minutes after I sent of the
original e-mail - it always happens that way!

> > When you 'PAUSE' a CD, I expect it do stop playing and wait until
> > I press it again. kscd does the first bit, but after ~30 seconds
> > it ejects the CD (didn't use to). Grip isn't quite so bad, it just
> > resumes playing. It's possible that this may be a quirk in my
> > kernel, but does it happen on other systems?
>
> I haven't seen this, across two or three CD drives.
>
> Do you have "auto play on disc insert" set?
yes,
> If so, does this stop when 
> you turn it off?
>
Will have a go and see...
I suspect the basic CD driver is at the root of my problems.
I've upgraded my kernel several times over the pas couple of
years - I'm now running 2.6.7 if that's significant. The machine
is an IBM Thinkpad A21m, don't know what the drive is, though
using dmesg | fgrep hdc gives:

    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1c18-0x1c1f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hdc: CRN-8241U, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)

if that helps...

> > If I get a new CD which hasn't got a CDDB entry, or I don't like
> > the entry as found, or I'm offline, I don't mind typing in the
> > details. However, when I do so, Grip and kscd both insist on
> > playing the track I'm editing, which I find annoying - 20secs
> > of one track, then 20 sec of another... Even if I stop play,
> > it restarts as soon as I move to another track. There should
> > be some way to avoid this.
>
> I find this irritating as well, though it doesn't start magically for me.
> So, entering the track data while the CD is stopped works for me.  Are you
> double-clicking on the track name to change?  Does this happen if you move
> to the next track by hitting enter in the Track Title edit box?
>
No, yes. (that is I don't double click, and it plays the next track when I
press enter).

> > The only problem with grip (as opposed to kscd) is that it doesn't
> > show the track details in 'condensed' mode.
>
> Can't help you here.
>
> If a tool tip would suffice, it probably wouldn't be hard to add one,
> showing either the current track or all the tracks, maybe with the current
> one highlighed some how.
If I could sort out the major failings, I'd be happy without this, though
it would be nicer to have it. I'm sure it would be possible to squeeze
it in, but I haven't dug that far into the code yet...

Oh!, and a Happy New Year to all grippers!

Bill
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