Playing music CDs with NeXTcube. How ?

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Title: Playing music CDs with NeXTcube. How ?
Post by: NeXTsociety on June 25, 2010, 05:40:22 PM
So, I own a TurboCube with an internal CD ROM drive.  I know normally one needs some type of cable from the CD rom to sound card on PCs but how would one, if even possible, play music CDs from a CD unit in a Cube?

Anyone do this yet?

I also own an external NeXT branded CD Rom and they have audio ports on them so I know I could connect speaker system to that to play CDs but would be nice to do from internal CD player.

Thanks

tj
Title: Playing music CDs with NeXTcube. How ?
Post by: itomato on July 07, 2010, 04:30:00 PM
http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Apps/Audio/cdplayer.1.0.N.b.tar.gz

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   Here's something to entertain everyone using the new NeXT CD-ROM ...

   Find attached a command-line program to play audio CDs on the NeXT CD-ROM.  You'll need to connect the CD-ROM to a stereo through the two RCA connectors in the back of the drive, or to the stereo headphones in the front.

   Operation:

   usage: cdplayer [-p|-r] -t<target>|-d<device> [<track>]

There is a command line app, plus a NS GUI..

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Place cdplayer in your path (/usr/bin is a good place or /usr/local/bin if you have created this directory & have it in your path) and make it SUID root.

#chmod 4755 /usr/bin/cdplayer

Also, make /usr/etc/disk SUID root

#chmod 4755 /usr/etc/disk

Then double-click on CDPlayer & enjoy.

There's also a toshiba-specific utility which does not require the CD-ROM-to-audio device connection - but this may be for i386..

I have never used this utility - have never owned NeXT-branded CDROM..
Title: Playing music CDs with NeXTcube. How ?
Post by: NeXTsociety on July 07, 2010, 04:33:01 PM
I have a NeXT brand CD ROM also and I know about the RCA jacks but what I was interested in was the internal CD ROM I have inside my Cube.  Wondering if anyone has an internal CD Rom playing music somehow.

tj

Quote from: "itomato"http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Apps/Audio/cdplayer.1.0.N.b.tar.gz

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   Here's something to entertain everyone using the new NeXT CD-ROM ...

   Find attached a command-line program to play audio CDs on the NeXT CD-ROM.  You'll need to connect the CD-ROM to a stereo through the two RCA connectors in the back of the drive, or to the stereo headphones in the front.

   Operation:

   usage: cdplayer [-p|-r] -t<target>|-d<device> [<track>]

There is a command line app, plus a NS GUI..

Quote
Place cdplayer in your path (/usr/bin is a good place or /usr/local/bin if you have created this directory & have it in your path) and make it SUID root.

#chmod 4755 /usr/bin/cdplayer

Also, make /usr/etc/disk SUID root

#chmod 4755 /usr/etc/disk

Then double-click on CDPlayer & enjoy.

There's also a toshiba-specific utility which does not require the CD-ROM-to-audio device connection - but this may be for i386..

I have never used this utility - have never owned NeXT-branded CDROM..

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