I can't play audio cds. I used to use gnome-cd, but that seems to be
gone now, and none of the other CD players will play sound. KsCD will
even show the track titles on the CD, but it won't play sound. I
checked the log file, but I couldn't find anything. I couldn't mount my
CD (in the past this wasn't necessary for audio CDs, but I thought I'd
try it anyway), and then I got something in the log. My /dev/cdrom is a
link to /dev/hda:
camille ~ # grep /dev/hda /var/log/messages
Oct 6 11:41:41 camille GFS2: Unrecognized block device or mount
point /dev/hda
Oct 6 11:42:13 camille GFS2: Unrecognized block device or mount
point /dev/hda
Oct 6 11:42:35 camille GFS2: Unrecognized block device or mount
point /dev/hda
camille ~ # ls -l /dev/hda
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 3, 0 Oct 6 07:06 /dev/hda
I rebooted into Windows XP, where the same CD played just fine. Can
anyone tell me what's going on with this?
10-07-2008, 06:45 AM
"Liviu Andronic"
Can't play audio cds!
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Michael Sullivan
<michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> checked the log file, but I couldn't find anything. I couldn't mount my
> CD (in the past this wasn't necessary for audio CDs, but I thought I'd
>
As far as I know, the Linux kernel cannot mount Audio CDs. The one
programme that on my system works with Audio CDs is Gnome-mplayer. You
might also try VLC. Another option is to rip them with Grip.
Regards,
Liviu
11-04-2008, 01:03 PM
"Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto"
Can't play audio cds!
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Michael Sullivan
> <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
>> checked the log file, but I couldn't find anything. I couldn't mount my
>> CD (in the past this wasn't necessary for audio CDs, but I thought I'd
>>
> As far as I know, the Linux kernel cannot mount Audio CDs. The one
> programme that on my system works with Audio CDs is Gnome-mplayer. You
> might also try VLC. Another option is to rip them with Grip.
>
> Regards,
> Liviu
I can play an audio CD (with Beethoven music) with mplayer cdda://.
Can you try a program that I or Liviu Andronic know? That way, we
would more likely understand the error messages, assuming it does not
work and gives error messages.
How about you try gnome-mplayer?
--
Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds
01-10-2009, 08:06 PM
Michael Sullivan
Can't play audio cds!
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 09:45 +0300, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Michael Sullivan
> <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> > checked the log file, but I couldn't find anything. I couldn't mount my
> > CD (in the past this wasn't necessary for audio CDs, but I thought I'd
> >
> As far as I know, the Linux kernel cannot mount Audio CDs. The one
> programme that on my system works with Audio CDs is Gnome-mplayer. You
> might also try VLC. Another option is to rip them with Grip.
>
> Regards,
> Liviu
>
I wrote in about this problem awhile ago and never got an answer. This
morning I was googling the problem and came across the thread I created
on an archive site and looked at it just to see if there was anything
I'd missed. There was a reply to it that I hadn't seen before, so I
read it. I don't know why I never received the reply, but it suggested
using
mplayer cdda://
and posting the error messages. I tried it and it works; it plays my
audio cd:
michael@camille ~ $ mplayer cdda://
MPlayer dev-SVN-r28058-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
control.
MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: play_audio
A: 9.0 (09.0) of 3701.7 ( 1:01:41.7) 8.6%
Exiting... (Quit)
However, kscd does not. The interface looks like it's playing, but
there's no audio output:
michael@camille ~ $ kscd
QWidget::setProperty( "text", value ) failed: property invalid,
read-only or does not exist
kdecore (KConfigSkeleton): Creating KConfigSkeleton (0x80ed298)
kdecore (KConfigSkeleton): KConfigSkeleton::readConfig()
kdecore (KConfigSkeleton): Creating KConfigSkeleton (0x8109610)
kdecore (KConfigSkeleton): KConfigSkeleton::readConfig()
kscd: Device change: WM_CDIN, /dev/cdrom, , , status: Stopped
kscd: Volume change: 100, status: Success
michael@camille ~ $ kscd: New discId=3859707153
kscd: lookupCDDB() called
kdecore (KConfigSkeleton): KConfigSkeleton::readConfig()
libkcddb: Looking up e60e7511 in CDDB cache
kdecore (KConfigSkeleton): Creating KConfigSkeleton (0xbfb4a1f4)
kdecore (KConfigSkeleton): KConfigSkeleton::readConfig()
libkcddb: Loaded CDInfo for e60e7511
libkcddb: Found 1 hit(s)
kdecore (KConfigSkeleton): KConfigSkeleton::writeConfig()
kdecore (KConfigSkeleton): KConfigSkeleton::readConfig()
As far as I can tell, the logs have nothing to say about this problem.
Unless I'm looking in the wrong log. I checked /var/log/messages and
there is no mention of kscd anywhere. dmesg has the same two lines
repeated over and over again:
Can't play audio cds!
