Re: [opensuse-kde] KDE4/Qt4 removal from openSUSE Factory

Hans-Peter Jansen skreiv 29.03.2019 13:54:
> Not being able to play an Audio CD will be a shame as well.

For playing audio CDs, just add the following to your ~/.bashrc file:

   alias playcd='mpv --no-resume-playback --cdda-speed=8 cdda://'

Then you just have to run ‘playcd’ whenever you want to play an audio CD 
(you need to have mpv installed). Explanation of options:

--no-resume-playback: Start playing the CD from the beginning, instead 
of at the last track/position played. (You might want to remove this 
option.)

--cdda-speed=8: By default, mpv uses the maximum speed of your CD-ROM 
drive, perhaps 24x or 48x. Which makes at least makes *my* CD-ROM drive 
sound like the runway at a small airport. Audio CDs are by *definition* 
supposed to be played at 1x. But I use 8x instead, which makes starting 
playback and seeking/skipping faster, but does not create any extra 
noise. Experiment with different values.

You might also want to add ‘--force-window=yes’, if you want a GUI.

A fun, perhaps useful, feature of mpv is that it uses buffering even for 
audio CDs. I was very surprised when I removed a CD from the computer, 
but the music continued playing (for a long time)!

-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer

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