Gnome CD player skips during playback

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 08:33:30PM -0500, Anthony Dean wrote:
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> Hello,
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> Was wondering if anyone had any suggestions about this:
> When playing CDs using the Gnome CD player (in FC3), the sound skips
> through the whole track, with only extremely short snippets (one or two
> seconds at a time tops) playing before it gets to the end of the track.
> 
> The same CDs play fine in KsCD and Grip, but was wondering how to fix
> this in Gnome CD (yes, there's an audio cable between the CD drive and
> the motherboard---I put it there myself).
> 
> Any suggestions on how to fix it?
> 
> Anthony
I find that the Gnome CD player is almost useless on many hardware
systems I have to use it on. On some it does what you report , on
others it plays only one track and stops. I have ignored it and used
grip as the default CD playing program in Gnome with good results.
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