CDDA-PLAYER:(1)

✨ CDDA-PLAYER:(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the cdda-player manual page 💖 the manual name is CDDA-PLAYER:(1) and it lives in the User Commands section, iykyk.

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🎀 NAME 🎀

cdda-player: — a simple curses CD player. that's it, that's the whole name, periodt 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so cdda-player is a simple curses CD player. she's lowkey iconic for this one: she can pick up the artist, the CD name and the song title from CD-Text info on the CD, or via CDDB. the way she just knows 🦋

usage goes like this:

cdda-player [options] [device]

and the default is to search for a CD-ROM device with a CD-DA loaded. she'll go find it herself, main character energy fr fr ✨

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💫 These command line options available:

• -h — print this help 🫶
• -k — print key mapping
• -a — start up in auto-mode
• -v — verbose

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🌈 for non-interactive use (only one) of these:

okay so listen — only one of these at a time, bestie. pick your fighter 👑

• -l — list tracks
• -c — print cover (PostScript to stdout)
• -C — close CD-ROM tray. If you use this option, a CD-ROM device name must be specified. no device name, no vibes 😭
• -p — play the whole CD
• -t n — play track >n<
• -t a-b — play all tracks between a and b (inclusive)
• -L — set volume level
• -s — stop playing
• -S — list audio subchannel information
• -e — eject cdrom

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That's all. Oh, maybe a few words more about the auto-mode 👀 This is the 'dont-touch-any-key' feature. You load a CD, player starts to play it, and when it is done it ejects the CD. Start it that way on a spare console and forget about it... literally just walk away, she's got this 💖

(c) 1997-98 Gerd Knorr <kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de> (c) 2005-2006, 2017 Rocky Bernstein <rocky@gnu.org>

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so yeah, cdda-player is a simple curses CD player. It can pick up artist, CD name and song title from CD-Text info on the CD or via CDDB. (yes I said it again, it's THAT good, obsessed 🔥)

usage:

cdda-player [options] [device]

default for to search for a CD-ROM device with a CD-DA loaded ✨

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💜 These command line options available:

• -h — print this help
• -k — print key mapping
• -a — start up in auto-mode
• -v — verbose

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🧚 for non-interactive use (only one) of these:

• -l — list tracks
• -c — print cover (PostScript to stdout)
• -C — close CD-ROM tray. If you use this option, a CD-ROM device name must be specified.
• -p — play the whole CD
• -t n — play track >n<
• -t a-b — play all tracks between a and b (inclusive)
• -L — set volume level
• -s — stop playing
• -S — list audio subchannel information
• -e — eject cdrom

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That's all. Oh, maybe a few words more about the auto-mode. This is the 'dont-touch-any-key' feature. You load a CD, player starts to play it, and when it is done it ejects the CD. Start it that way on a spare console and forget about it... 💀

(c) 1997-98 Gerd Knorr <kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de> (c) 2005-2006, 2017 Rocky Bernstein <rocky@gnu.org>

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and that's a wrap bestie 🎀 one tiny last thing — the footer vibe check: if you mess up, you'll be seeing cdda-player: invalid option --... and this whole page is dated January 2018, from the CDDA-PLAYER:(1) manual, User Commands section. slay, go play a CD 💿💅