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CDCONTROL(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual CDCONTROL(1) NAME cdcontrol -- compact disc control utility SYNOPSIS cdcontrol [-sv] [-f device] [command ...] DESCRIPTION Cdcontrol is a program to control audio features of a CD drive. The device is a name such as cd0 or mcd0. 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 or mcd0. Both absolute path and relative 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 minutes, start_s, in seconds and start_f (frame number) to the absolute 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 channels. cdid Display the serial number of the cd using the method used by the cddb (http://www.cddb.org/) project. 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. The speed is a multiple of the single speed. This command is currently only supported on ATAPI drives. quit Quit the program. ENVIRONMENT The following environment variables affect the execution of cdcontrol: CDROM The cd device to use if one isn't specified with the -f flag. CDPLAY CD_DRIVE DISC MUSIC_CD These variables have been deprecated in favour of CDROM. FILES /dev/cd0c /dev/mcd0c /dev/acd0c AUTHORS Jean-Marc Zucconi, Andrey A. Chernov, Serge V. Vakulenko HISTORY The cdcontrol command appeared in FreeBSD 2.1. FreeBSD 11.1 July 3, 1995 FreeBSD 11.1
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