Playing CDs and Sound

Please first consider those within and around your office before playing sound/music. There is also a headphone socket on the speaker that can be used to reduce the impact on others.

Playing Audio CDs

Command line tool

You can play audio CDs with the dcd command. Basic use as follows

dcd	Start CD playing
dcd stop	Stop CD playing
dcd dir	List track numbers and playing times
dcd eject	Eject CD
dcd pause	Pause/Resume CD playing
dcd loop	Loop play continuously all tracks on the CD
dcd loop 1 3 4	Loop play tracks 1, 3 and 4
dcd random	Random order play of all tracks on CD
dcd random 1 3 4	Random order play tracks 1, 3 and 4
dcd forward	Skip forward a track
dcd back	Skip back a track

For more details see the man page. The above commands have shorter forms, see output of dcd -h for details.

Graphical Tools

There are several graphical tools, e.g. gnome-cd, rhythmbox, xmms etc. Also see the Applications -> Debian Menu -> Apps -> SoundPlaying MIDI files Use timidity, e.g.

timidity file.mid

Playing several other sound formats

play can be used to play a variety of sound file formats including WAV files and Sun Audio au files. For more details see the man page.