cdctrl1

Usage

Overview

cdctrl command is a program that opens a CDROM device and may be used for interactive control of the CDROM including play starting at a track, next track, previous track, stop, pause, display info, display CDROM status, and display CDROM directory. This program may be used as a daemon to control an audio CDROM device.

The commands to the cdctrl command are:

By default, cdctrl opens /dev/cdrom, but does not start playing. Output is to standard output with each line terminated by a linefeed (LF).

Commands to cdctrl are:

Each command results in one or multiple lines of output to stdout, followed by an info string, followed by END.

The format of the info string is:

CMD cmd-name cd-status track abs-time rel-time

cmd-name := {play, stop, ... quit} from above list
cd-status := {invalid, play, paused}
cd-status += {completed, error, no_status}
track := {1..99} CD track
abs-time := HH:MM:SS elapsed since CD start
rel-time := HH:MM:SS elapsed since track start

Files

/dev/cdrom - default cdrom device

Environment

CDTOOLDEV - cdrom device, overrides compile time defaults