You need to create a bin/cue image of your cd and use imgmount in DosBox to mount the .cue to listen th CD audio.

I already thought about that. But u have to know, that the game consists of 2 CD's and i dont wanna waste free dataspace. There must be a way making it possible to play the musik directly from the cd. A friend of mine uses OpenSuse, and the game runs on his computer with cd-audio-sound very smoothly.

There is one option.
I have had some luck getting another dos emulator under linux, dosemu, to play cd audio tracks.
The only problem is that it seems like it was harder to get it setup to recognize cds than using dos originally.
For me, I had to change some dosemu config files, get a hold of a cd-rom driver, configure the autoexec.bat plus config.sys, and then get the driver lines set correctly.
Think it took me hours to do. And a lot of searching on the internet.
Personally I wouldn't recommend it, unless you know what you're doing and welcome a challenge.

The only other solution I have is a lot of a kludge. To the point where I suspect it will rightfully get laughs.
When you start the game, switch to another terminal and have a cd-playing app start running. It won't have the slightest connection to the game, but you'll still hear the music...

Does the imgmount sound better now?

turricano wrote:

I already thought about that. But u have to know, that the game consists of 2 CD's and i dont wanna waste free dataspace. There must be a way making it possible to play the musik directly from the cd. A friend of mine uses OpenSuse, and the game runs on his computer with cd-audio-sound very smoothly.

So you'd rather have to insert the CD all the time?

Ok, i tried it with an image (400MB).
I'm able to install the game, but instead of musik, there is noise.
The sound-FX works very well. Its just the musik ...

What game? And what exactly do you mean by "just noise"?

I managed the problem with static noise in the image files. But i still dont know, why dosbox isnt able to play the music directly from cd. Does someone here have any clue ?

How did you mount the CD in dosbox?

Of course i did! 😉

1mount d /media/cdrom0 -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl

I have access to all data on the disc. But the musik doesnt play!
For copy protection the game checks the number of the music tracs on the cd, so no chance to play!

Try making a BIN/CUE image pair and mount the CUE sheet with imgmount command.

And it would _still_ be helpful to know which game you're trying to run. I had at least one game that wouldn't play CDDA in DOSBox at all, but i won't tell you the name (;

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1mount d /media/cdrom0 -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl

I have access to all data on the disc. But the musik doesnt play!
For copy protection the game checks the number of the music tracs on the cd, so no chance to play!

People have repeatedly said to you, that you need to make an image of the CD in CUE/BIN format.

You say it doesn't work. Then when people ask you how you mounted the CD, you proceed to show us how you mounted the real CD.

Please give us some proof that you really mounted the CUE/BIN image, and that it doesn't work.

As i alredy said in post#8, i dont have any problems with the musik, using a cd-image. I made a new image with a different image-programm and the staic noise doesnt appear any more.

1imgmount d /home/me/Games/Dos/CDROM/gamecd.cue -t iso

The problem is, that i dont have enough free disc space, to copy all cds on the hard drive. So i still try to start the game from the cdrom-drive, and there apperas the problem, that dosbox cannot play music tracs ...

turricano wrote:

As i alredy said in post#8, i dont have any problems with the musik, using a cd-image.

Ahh - my bad. Upon re-reading your message, I see it.

turricano wrote:

The problem is, that i dont have enough free disc space, to copy all cds on the hard drive.

You can always store the image(s) on a writeable CD (or even 10-15 images on a DVD).

Buy more hard drive space. (It's cheap).

CD's are dead. There's no reason to not have enough HD space in this day and age unless you have terabytes of video on your HD.

You can always store the image(s) on a writeable CD (or even 10-15 images on a DVD).

Thats a good idea, thx.
I didnt think of that before ... i'll try that out !