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Music CD players for MS-DOS

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First post, by assasincz

Posted on 2021-04-06, 10:03

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Hi all,

So I have this vision of turning my Compaq Presario 460 with external SCSI CD-ROM drive into a setup for playing audio CDs.
HW-wise, the setup works, however I am struggling to find a good program for playback control that would work.
I have already tried a few, after some googling, under links below, but some links are down, some do not work properly or even do not work at all for my particular setup,

http://mpxplay.sourceforge.net
http://dosprograms.info.tt/sound.htm
http://files.mpoli.fi/software/DOS/AUDIO/
http://www.resoo.org/docs/dos/free_software/sound.htm
https://www.hitsquad.com/smm/dos/
http://www.lanet.lv/simtel.net/msdos/music-pre.html

Can you recommend/link to any particular music player for MS-DOS? I am strictly after music CD playback, and personally, the more text-mode GUIs, the merrier 😀

Thanks a lot, V.

Reply 1 of 7, by xcomcmdr

Posted on 2021-04-06, 12:46

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I'd look into awesome linux cli players, but ported to DOS.

Maybe MPlayer for DOS would work ?
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/fr … ml/mplayer.html
There is more here :
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/fr … roup-sound.html

Reply 2 of 7, by assasincz

Posted on 2021-04-06, 21:07

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Thank you for the suggestions. Actually I kept looking and stumbled across this gem - SJGPLAY
http://www.6502.org/users/sjgray/software/sjg … jgplay_dos.html
Text mode, lots of options that I really like (screensaver, equalizer), works nicely without (major) errors - I think Im gonna use this one for a while...

Reply 3 of 7, by nikon331

Posted on 2024-12-06, 03:49

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Does anyone remember CTHUGHA cd player software with visualizations for DOS? I was amazed by it back in the 90's.

Reply 4 of 7, by Bondi

Posted on 2024-12-06, 06:51

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This DOS cd player came with IBM CD-ROM for Dock I. Didn't try it on anything else, maybe it works with any driver. In dosbox it asks for mscdex to work.

The attachment IBMCDPLY.rar is no longer available

PCMCIA Sound Cards chart
archive.org: PCMCIA software, manuals, drivers
68pins.com custom PCMCIA drivers

Reply 5 of 7, by Jo22

Posted on 2024-12-06, 07:24

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Play CD?

Re: multitasking dos 6.22

https://ibm-pc.org/drivers/cdrom/MITSUMI/mitsumi.html

"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel

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Reply 6 of 7, by wbahnassi

Posted on 2024-12-06, 10:20

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IIRC Sound Blaster Pro 2 DOS drivers came with a straightforward text-mode cd player too.

Turbo XT 12MHz, EGA, MFM HDD
Intel 386 DX-33, Speedstar 24X, SB 1.5, 1x CD
Intel 486 DX2-66, CL5428 VLB, SBPro 2, 2x CD
IBM BlueLightning 100MHz, CL5428, SB16, 4x CD
Intel Pentium 90, Matrox Millenium 2, SB16, 4x CD
HP Z400, Xeon 3.46GHz, YMF-744, RTX2060

Reply 7 of 7, by theelf

Posted on 2024-12-08, 02:00

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I fix some stuff to this nice cd player

Prophecy's CD-Player mod

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