cdplayer — Minimal CDDA Player for Linux

cdplayer is a minimal CDDA (Compact Disc Digital Audio) player for Linux. It plays audio CDs directly from /dev/sr0 (or other CD devices) with almost no dependencies — relying only on tinyalsa.

Features

• Plays standard audio CDs via CD-ROM device
• Controlled using UNIX signals (no GUI or TUI)
• Depends only on tinyalsa for audio playback
• Extremely small and hackable C codebase

Build

To compile the program run make or:

cc -Itinyalsa/include -o cdplayer cdplayer.c tinyalsa/src/pcm.c tinyalsa/src/pcm_hw.c tinyalsa/src/snd_card_plugin.c

Usage

./cdplayer cdrom [card=0] [device=0]

• cdrom — CD-ROM device like /dev/sr0
• card — ALSA sound card number (default: 0)
• device — ALSA PCM device number (default: 0)

Controls (via kill)

You can control playback using UNIX signals:

Signal	Action
SIGUSR1	Seek forward 1 minute
SIGUSR2	Seek backward 1 minute
SIGSTOP	Pause playback
SIGCONT	Resume playback

Licence

0BSD – Zero Clause BSD License. See LICENSE for details. Feel free to use, modify, and share freely — no restrictions.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit issues or pull requests.