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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@star-gate.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: audio questions
Date: 9 May 1995 06:03:13 GMT
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englehar@src.honeywell.com (Matt Englehart) wrote:
>xcdplayer, cda, and xmcd appear to only handle scsi cdroms on FreeBSD.
>I have a Panasonic 562 CDROM, which is not a SCSI, and uses the matcd driver.
>Do you know of any source code for a program
>that can play audio CDROM's from the matcd on the latest snapshot of 
>FreeBSD?
>
>Also, are there any programs for using the Sound Blaster Pro sound card to
>do things like record and mix?
>
>Thanks,
>

Sure if you include the sound driver in the kernel:

cat  file.au >/dev/audio  (to playback)
cat /dev/audio> foo.au     (to record)

Look around in freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/audio

	Cheers,
	Amancio