[SOLVED] Audio CD fails to play correctly

l33tunderground · 2007-05-20 15:58:46

Ok, so my sound is working I know that for a fact and I know my CD drive is operating correctly. I have both HAL and autoFS set up as daemons ( I have tried HAL solely, but not autoFS solely yet) and when I put the CD in it is detected and shows up under system:/media/cdrom (I'm in KDE) but any attempts to either play the CD directly or one of the songs individually fails. Playing the CD directly with any player, mplayer cant even find it, amarok cant load it and neither can Noatun, doesnt work. I have no idea why this is an issue, I'm a member of the audio and optical group and no errors appear for the mounting of the CD except that it isnt being mounted to /mnt/cdrom like it says in:

/etc/fstab:

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0


/dev/cdrom /mnt/cd   auto   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd   auto   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda4 swap swap defaults 0 0

by the way, /dev/cdrom is a symlink to /dev/sr0 which is my CD drive, and I don't know if that is part of the problem or what. Anyway, if anyone has any info on why the CD isn't mounting/playing correctly I would really appreciate it. If you need the results of any commands or files I'd be happy to post them if I can. Thank you.

Also, here is the results of my groups command:

audio optical <username group>

**edit**
sorry it isn't mounted in /mnt/cd either
**edit**

Last edited by l33tunderground (2007-05-23 15:13:46)

l33tunderground · 2007-05-20 16:12:44

Well I found out that without HAL it doesnt really work at all hehe ^^

I also thought of posting the contents of the files in /etc/autofs just in case that would help

auto.master:

# Sample auto.master file
# Format of this file:
# mountpoint map options
# For details of the format look at autofs(5).

/var/autofs/misc        /etc/autofs/auto.misc
/var/autofs/net   /etc/autofs/auto.net

auto.misc:

boot                -fstype=ext2                              :/dev/hda1
removable         -fstype=ext2                        :/dev/hdd
cd                    -fstype=iso9660,ro                  :/dev/hdc
floppy            -fstype=auto                        :/dev/fd0

**Note: those values for /dev/ are not the actual values for my devices so I don't know if that is impacting it or not

auto.net doesn't really have anything to do with this.

fdac · 2007-05-22 23:36:52

To play audio CDs directly you don't need to mount the disc. The basic way to check is use

cdcd play

As far as I know you do need to have the audio cable connected from your CDROM to the sound card, or equivalent on motherboard for onboard sound. Have you checked this?

rayjgu3 · 2007-05-23 00:42:33

kscd works here had to configure kscd to use arts not alsa
xmms with cd plugin works also gotta get in there & check configure options
gxine works no problem

i itried mplayer with no luck which im not worried bout i dont care for it only reason i have it is dependency
i dont see where noauton has any cd recognition
never messed with amarok

i preffer xmms although i know alot of people here dont care for it but its always worked great for me sometimes it needs tweaking but it works

l33tunderground · 2007-05-23 15:13:22

HAHA! Thank you very much for that tip rayjgu3, xmms works great now with the CDs. Just in case anyone else runs into this issue, not really a problem just a matter of the right software. My configuration with XMMS to play it was default settings with Output Plugin set to ALSA and the CD Audio Driver config -- Play Mode set to Digital audio extraction.

scarecrow · 2007-05-23 15:33:11

An audio CD cannot be really mounted to any real mountpoint: there is no filesystem in it, just raw datastreams (audio tracks).
You can only mount it virtually... under KDE, use the
audiocd:/
virtual filesystem instead of what you tried to use.
BTW I'm not running autoFS at all, just HAL.
Using xmms anno 2007 is odd, at best, IMHO. I can stand most of its inherent limitations, but not its old GTK UI anymore. Just about any multimedia player on planet earth can playback audioCD's perfectly well.

Last edited by scarecrow (2007-05-23 15:34:15)

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[SOLVED] Audio CD fails to play correctly

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