alternative to playcd

[honx]

playcd (which comes with amigaos 3.9) doesn't let me adjust volume of cd audio.
i have to adjust it in winuae gui, which is a bit time-consuming and annoying.
so i'm looking for another player to play audio cds. which one would you suggest?

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Non ho capito bene il tuo problema,al playcd which comes with amigaos 3.9 doesn't let me adjust volume of cd audio it allows you to adjust the volume,
i use a different GUI, see screenshot, there are also other CD Player.

[honx]

i know, this slider should adjust audio volume but it doesn't work on my system.
what is the other cd player called and where can i get it?

[Daedalus]

Does your CD-ROM drive support volume adjustments? There's a CD player included in IDEFix that might be worth trying.

[Toni Wilen]

OS39 playcd's volume slider works in winuae if mounted via uaescsi.device (or via CDFS automount). How do you mount the CD?

[honx]

on windows side adjusting cd audio works fine. even if i adjust cd volume in winuae gui.
but it doesn't work if i try playcd within emulation. so i assume that the drive supports it.

on cd/harddrives tab i manually switch to the drive, if i need cd in emulation.
in emulation there is cd0 in dosdrivers. in playcd-icon there is tooltype DEVICE=uaescsi.device.

edit: using cd player which comes with idefix, i am actually able to adjust audio.
so there's a problem or bug with playcd which comes with amigaos 3.9, i guess...
but cd player from idefix is not very pretty...

btw, i still have this "double cd icon" problem (see attachment), never found a solution for...

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Player OS 3.9 the volume works well, look at the attached video.

[honx]

your system is not my system. it works for you but it in fact doesn't work for me.
if i reduce volume using playcd from os 3.9 it instantly jumps back to loudest (100%).

[AMIGASYSTEM]

With WinUAE lto mountlist is no longer necessary you can move CD0 in Storage/Dosdriver and configure the CD as well as WinUAE:

[honx]

if i do so, adding drive in winuae like this and moving cd0 to storage/dosdrivers, then no audio cd is recognized.

[Toni Wilen]

Do you have SCSI emulation enabled in misc panel?

[honx]

this cylcle button is set to "scsi emulation *". what does this * mean?

[AMIGASYSTEM]

I think I understand your problem, you have not removed the commanding parentheses "Device", in this way in Toltypes the command is ignored

[Toni Wilen]

It shouldn't matter how is it mounted, both methods still use uaescsi.device.

(* = default/use if you don't know which one to choose )

Unless mountlist has some custom parameters that break volume control.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Toni is working but the volume can not be changed, this happens on my system, I did not carefully checked.

[honx]

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

I think I understand your problem, you have not removed the commanding parentheses "Device", in this way in Toltypes the command is ignored

parantheses are removed, otherwise playcd would not find any device and it wouldn't work anyway.

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

It shouldn't matter how is it mounted, both methods still use uaescsi.device.

(* = default/use if you don't know which one to choose )

Unless mountlist has some custom parameters that break volume control.

do you mean uae mountlist? i only mount hardfiles directly. no removable drives.
if i use cdrom or cd image, then i use optical drive section to insert. temporarily.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

No honx, it works the same just do not lower the volume, this happens on all my Amiga OS systems, I think you did the reboot after the change.

[honx]

i did not change anything, as it was already set this way. i did this already months ago.
in past i had the experience that playcd didn't work at all until i edited these tooltypes.
such as entering uaescsi as device and setting unit to 0.