[PlanetCCRMA] alsaplayer - choosing a CD

Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Wed Dec 11 17:12:01 2002


> Yes, I had looked by the config file didn't have any obvious device
> settings...

At the end of my ~/.alsaplayer/config file I find this line:

cdda.device=/dev/cdrom

Most probably you can add this to yours with the device of your choice. 
-- Fernando

> On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 16:09, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > >    I have multiple CDROM drives on my Redhat machine and alsaplayer seems
> > > fixated on choosing the one I don't want it to choose to play an audio CD.
> > > How do I go about configuring alsaplayer, or else Redhat itself, to choose
> > > the specific CDROM drive I want it to choose?
> > > 
> > >    I was sort of surprised not to find a command line option for this, but
> > > maybe I'm missing the point.
> > 
> > Usually programs have their configuration stored in files in the home
> > directory of the user running them. Apparently in the case of alsaplayer
> > the configuration is in a file named "config" inside the "~/.alsaplayer"
> > directory. Quit alsaplayer, edit that file and start it again.