Audio Applications cdp Text application for playing audio Cds cdparanoia Compact disc digital audio (CDDA) extraction tool (also known as a ripper) cdrecord Command line based CD recording program dvdrecord Command line based CD and DVD recording program grip Graphical CD ripper and MP3 encoder gtoaster CD Recording package for both sound and data mikmod MOD file player xawtv TV application for suitably compliant devices xmms Multimedia player We’ll deal with these two types of applications in the following two subsections. Audio Applications As well as just allowing you to play CDs, Red Hat Linux provides a load of other utilities - from creating special effects in XMMS to converting them into MP3 files and labeling them. We can’t cover all of the audio applications in the Sound and Video package group, so we’ll concentrate on the most useful and user-friendly applications, and some of which are included in other packages such as the GNOME desktop: Playing audio CDs with Gnome-CD Playing multimedia files with Xmms Burning (writing) and ripping (extracting from) music CDs with cdparanoia, grip, and other utilities Playing Audio CDs The default application for playing your audio CDs is Gnome-CD. You can run Gnome-CD by selecting Main Menu | Sound & Video | CD Player or by typing gnome-cd at the command line, but you’ll find that the application starts automatically if you put an audio CD into your CD drive. It presents you with the following screen: This will automatically extract the track list and duration from the CD. From here you can play, skip forward, skip backward, and adjust the volume, and so on, just as you would on a standard CD player. The two buttons on the left (just below the words Unknown Album in the screenshot) lead to the Track Editor and Preferences dialogs. The Preferences dialog is particularly useful, because it allows you to choose the CD player device and to control the behavior of the application when you start it and close it: 148
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