Ubuntu 5.04 question

[Nearly Normal Jimmy]

i downloaded the disk-only trial version, burned it, booted it (400 MHz
B & W G3) and everything went smoothly and i was pretty impressed
though i'm definately a Linux newbie.

only problem was that i played a music CD and every 10 seconds or so
there would be a moment of silence and then it would continue playing.
this was playing through my external USB player/burner as the Ubuntu
disk was in the internal drive.

sound like something i should be concerned about if i decide to go the
whole installation route??

thanks for any help for a pretty un-knowledgeable newbie.

Jim

[Jack Malmostoso]

Post by Nearly Normal Jimmy
sound like something i should be concerned about if i decide to go the
whole installation route??

Most probably not: LiveCD performance is always a little less than
installed is, and actually I have never tried playing a CD through USB,
but I guess it can be pretty CPU-consuming. So I wouldn't be worried.

[sam tygier]

Post by Nearly Normal Jimmy
sound like something i should be concerned about if i decide to go the
whole installation route??
thanks for any help for a pretty un-knowledgeable newbie.
Jim

live cd performance is always lower than the final install. so it might be better on an install.

you might also want to compare anologue and digital playing. there are two ways to playing a cd on a computer can work. either there is a digial-to-analogue convertion in the cd drive, and the analogue audio signal is fed to speakers or the computers sound card. or the data can be read of the disk and enter the computer digitally and then be converted to analogue audio by the sound card. is there an audio output from the external cd drive?

have you tried playing an audio file with the live cd? if you could burn some .wav or .ogg files to a data cd and try those.

if you are planning the play audio cds on the internal cdrom drive once you are install, you should have much better luck with that.

sam tygier
http://www.tygier.co.uk/