[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux CD player recommendation

[Chris Cox]

Leroy Tennison wrote:
> Earlier I emailed about wanting to use both CD devices in my PC to play 
> CDs (running CentOS 4.4 using KDE).  The (correct) answer was that KsCD 
> pointed to a specific device and the suggestion was to try the Gnome CD 
> player if I wanted to use the second CD device.  Having tried that and 
> dealt with some issues it sort-of works.  I can play a CD with Gnome's 
> CD player (gnome-cd 2.8) but:
> 
>    1. On startup it defaults to a data format.
>    2. It plays only one track.
>    3. There doesn't appear to be any way to configure it differently
>    4. Help? - What help?
> 
> Before I invest a lot of time fighting with Gnome-cd or trying out who 
> knows how many other alternatives before I find something acceptable, 
> I'm looking for recommendations or advice from someone who's "been there 
> - done that".
> 
> 
> If Gnome-cd can be made to work where's the configuration file and what 
> do i need to put in it?
> 
> Any recommendations of a CD player which can:
> 
>    1. Recognize the CD type or can be configured to default to a music
>       CD (essential)
>    2. Play all of the tracks automatically (essential)
>    3. Can auto-start/play at CD insertion (highly desirable)
>    4. Can check all CD devices for music CDs (would really be nice)
>    5. Allows selection of tracks to play (would be really nice for those
>       CDs which have "dog songs" mixed in with the goodies)
>    6. Can auto-replay after the last song (nice to have)
>    7. Can sing and dance at the same time (OK, OK, I'm pressing my
>       luck... ;-) )
> 
> Thanks for any and all replies

I believe amarok can do all of these things.  Perhaps overkill.

You'll also get lyrics, album covers, wikipedia lookup of the artist,
etc.  It's pretty complete.

Not sure how easy this would be to do with CentOS... CentOS isn't
a great distrib for doing desktop things.