Playing Audio CDs


To play an audio CD in Fedora Core 4, simply insert the audio CD that you want to listen to and shut your CD or DVD drive. Within a few moments, you hear the first track on the CD and see the CD player application on your desktop, as shown in Figure 15.3.

Figure 15.3. The CD player application starts automatically whenever you insert an audio CD. Note the display of the artist, album, and track names.


If you are connected to the Internet, whether through a local area network, dial-up Internet access, or cable/DSL, the CD player application identifies your CD and then automatically obtains the artist, album name, and tracks list from an online database. You then see the artist name, album name, and name of the currently playing track in the CD application's display at all times.

As you can see in Figure 15.3, the CD player application contains a number of controls that you can operate with your mouse or pointing device. On the bottom row, they include the following buttons, from left to right:

  • Previous Track, which skips to the previous track if the current track has just started, or skips to the beginning of the current track if the current track has been playing for some time

  • Rewind, which audibly rewinds the current track for as long as you hold down your mouse button

  • Pause/Play, which either pauses CD playback (without stopping the CD spinning in the CD/DVD drive) if the CD is currently playing, or plays the CD if playback is currently paused

  • Stop, which stops playback of the CD and stops the CD spinning in the CD/DVD drive

  • Fast Forward, which audibly increases the speed at which the current track is playing for as long as you hold down your mouse button

  • Next Track, which skips the rest of the current track and begins playing at the start of the next track

  • Eject, which causes the CD to stop spinning in the CD/DVD drive and then causes the CD/DVD drive to eject the CD

Too Many Buttons to Remember?

One easy way to remember what each control in the CD player application does is to let your mouse pointer hover over the buttons in the application.

Each time you let your mouse pointer hover over the button for a few seconds, a little tooltip appears listing what the button is used for.


Just above the bottom row of buttons is the CD tracks drop-down list, which you can use to play any track on the CD. To use it, follow these steps:

1.

Click the CD tracks drop-down list. The drop-down list displays all the tracks on the CD by number and name.

2.

Select the number and name of the track that you want to play from the list. The track you select immediately begins to play.

Editing Album and Track Information

Sometimes you may find that the information the CD player obtains from the Internet about the album you're playing is inaccurate. Sometimes the artist, album name, or tracks list is incorrect; at other times, you may find that the CD player is unable to find your album at all in online databases, in which case the artist, album name, and all tracks show up as "Unknown." You also see this result if you are not connected to the Internet when you begin playing a new CD.

To edit the CD player's knowledge of the artist, album name, and tracks list for a particular CD while it is playing, click the Open Track Editor button shown in Figure 15.3 to open the CDDB Track Editor.

You can make three kinds of changes using the CDDB Track Editor:

  • To change the name of the artist for the CD in question, click in the Artist entry box and enter any changes you want to make.

  • To change the name of the album for the CD in question, click in the Disc Title entry box and enter any changes you want to make.

  • To change the name of any of the tracks on the CD in question, double-click the text name of the track in question; a cursor appears in the title, and you then can enter any changes you want to make. After you are done editing the information for the CD, click the Save button to save your changes. Afterward, whenever you insert the CD in question, the new, updated information will be displayed by the CD player application.



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