Handling Audio Cds - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - KDE 08-05-2008 Manual

The amaroK Tray Icon
Like other KDE applications, amaroK adds an icon to the KDE system tray. You can
use this icon to control a large number of amaroK's features. Hovering the mouse
pointer over the icon displays information about the track currently played, by scrolling
the mouse wheel simultaneously you can reduce or increase the playback volume. A
single left-click closes the application window without affecting playback. Click again
to reopen the window. Clicking with the middle mouse button pauses playback—middle-
click again to resume playback. Right-clicking opens a context menu where you have
access to the player controls and can exit amaroK.
Using the Shift and Ctrl keys together with the mouse gives you access to more advanced
features. Holding Shift while scrolling the mouse wheel seeks through the current track.
Holding Ctrl while scrolling the mouse wheel skips through tracks in the playlist.
You may also drag items and drop them on the tray icon to add them to the current
playlist. A pop-up menu opens, asking whether to append the track to the playlist, append
and play it, or queue it after the current track.

20.3 Handling Audio CDs

There are many ways to listen to your favorite music tracks. Either play a CD or play
digitized versions of them. The following section features some CD player applications
as well as some applications that can be used for digitizing audio CDs.
For information about how to create your own CDs, refer to
and DVDs (page 289).
IMPORTANT: CDDA and Analog CD Playback
There are two different ways of playing audio CDs. CD and DVD drives capable
of analog CD playback read the audio data and send it to the sound output
device. Some external drives connected via PCMCIA, FireWire, or USB need to
use CDDA (Compact Disk Digital Audio) to extract the audio data first then
play it as digital PCM. The players featured in the following sections do not
support CDDA. Use XMMS if you need CDDA support.
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