I was going to suggest playing the cd digitally using /usr/bin/cdparaanioa
and pipe the wav file into /usr/bin/play, but cdparanioa will not pipe.  
Perhaps it needs a little patch to help make things nice, but this worked
for me:

cdparanoia -w -- "-10" &
play cdda.wav

100% digital!

On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Lucas Peet wrote:

> I recently converted my WinXP box over to RedHat 7.2.  When I put an 
> audio CD into my drive, it doesn't play.  This is because I don't have 
> the analog audio output line from my CD-Rom to my sound card.  However, 
> Windows (2K, XP) have been able to play them without any problem, using 
> digital CD audio, pulling the audio data through the IDE bus, instead of 
> the analog output.
> 
> Is there any software for Linux that supports this, or will I just need 
> to put that cable on?  I've tried Noatun, and XMMS, and the KDE CD 
> Player...none work.
> 
> BTW, sound is configured properly, and everything else runs great!
> 
> -Lucas
> 
> 
> 
> 

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