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CDCONTROL(1)           DragonFly General Commands Manual          CDCONTROL(1)

NAME

cdcontrol -- compact disc control utility

SYNOPSIS

cdcontrol [-sv] [-f device] [command ...]

DESCRIPTION

The cdcontrol utility is a program to control audio features of a CD drive. The device is a name such as cd0. If no command is given, then cdcontrol enters an interactive mode, read- ing commands from the standard input. The following options are available: -s Silent mode. Do not print table headers and human readable com- ments. -v Verbose mode. Print as much information as possible. -f device Specify a device, such as /dev/cd0c. Both absolute path and rel- ative to /dev filename are possible. Suffix c is added to the device name if needed. The available commands are listed below. Only as many characters as are required to uniquely identify a command need be specified. The word play can be omitted or the characters * and - can be used in the place of next and prev. play first_track [last_track] Play from track first_track to track last_track. The first track has number 1. Can be omitted in all cases. play start_m:start_s.start_f [end_m:end_s.end_f] Play from the absolute address (MSF) defined by start_m in min- utes, start_s, in seconds and start_f (frame number) to the abso- lute address defined by end_m in minutes, end_s, in seconds and end_f (frame number). Minutes are in the range 0-99. Seconds are in the range 0-59. Frame numbers are in the range 0-74. play [#start_block [length]] Play starting from the logical block start_block using length logical blocks. next [tracks] Skip forward a number of tracks (default 1). prev [tracks] Skip backward a number of tracks (default 1). pause Stop playing. Do not stop the disc. resume Resume playing. Used after the pause command. stop Stop the disc. eject Eject the disc. close Inject the disc. volume left_channel right_channel Set the volume of left channel to left_channel and the volume of right channel to right_channel. Allowed values are in the range 0-255. volume mute Turn the sound off. volume mono Set the mono mode. volume stereo Set the stereo mode. volume left Play the left subtrack on both left and right channels. volume right Play the right subtrack on both left and right channels. info Print the table of contents. status [audio | media | volume] Print the information about the disc: audio the current playing status and position media the current media catalog status volume the current values of the volume for left and right chan- nels. cdid Display the serial number of the CD using the method used by the CDDB project (http://www.cddb.org/). help Print the list of available commands. debug on Enable the debugging mode of the CD device driver. debug off Disable the driver debugging mode. reset Perform the hardware reset of the device. set msf Set minute-second-frame ioctl mode (default). set lba Set LBA ioctl mode. speed s Set the highest speed that the drive should use for reading data. The units are multiples of a single speed CDROM (150 KB/s). Specify ``max'' to use the drive's fastest speed. quit Quit the program. exit A synonym for quit.

ENVIRONMENT

The following environment variables affect the execution of cdcontrol: CDROM The CD device to use, if one is not specified with the -f option. CDPLAY, CD_DRIVE, DISC, MUSIC_CD These variables have been deprecated in favour of CDROM.

FILES

/dev/cd0c /dev/acd0c

HISTORY

The cdcontrol command appeared in FreeBSD 2.1.

AUTHORS

Jean-Marc Zucconi Andrey A. Chernov Serge V. Vakulenko DragonFly 3.5 July 3, 1995 DragonFly 3.5

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