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#1 2009-03-14 21:27:55
- chris_debian
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[SOLVED] My CD isn't recognised.
Hi, all.
Just realised, my CD entry in /etc/fstab is hashed-out (#). As you'd expect, I can't read a music CD. Is this usual in Arch? Does Arch handle Cd's differently?
BTW, I'm using xfce, if that has any relevance in this instance.
Many thanks,
Chris.
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#2 2009-03-14 21:32:23
- ataraxia
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Re: [SOLVED] My CD isn't recognised.
It's commented out because it breaks hal-based automounting to have it uncommented. If you aren't automounting, feel free to uncomment it.
That said, /etc/fstab has nothing to do with audio CDs anyway.
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#3 2009-03-14 21:42:03
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Re: [SOLVED] My CD isn't recognised.
Music CD's can't be mounted. Normally there's some other layer in between the CD and some program like Amarok. There's something called cdfs which acts like a audio CD mounter.
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#4 2009-03-14 21:42:13
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Re: [SOLVED] My CD isn't recognised.
Hi, all.
Just realised, my CD entry in /etc/fstab is hashed-out (#). As you'd expect, I can't read a music CD. Is this usual in Arch? Does Arch handle Cd's differently?
BTW, I'm using xfce, if that has any relevance in this instance.
Many thanks,
Chris.
"Can't read a music CD", do you mean the OS cannot see the audio CD...or that a specific music player cannot....or both?
For example, under KDEmod Arch, Arch does not see the CD in file manager, Amarok does not see it, but KsCD does.
Why?
Because Arch does not mount CDs, because Amarok is no longer written with audio CD playback ability, but KsCD can and does handle it fine.
You see why this gets complicated. 
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#5 2009-03-18 12:15:00
- chris_debian
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Re: [SOLVED] My CD isn't recognised.
Slight progress :-)
I can _see_ a CD with ISO images on, but not music CD's.
I'm using xfce and have tried Audacious and Goggles Music Manager, neither of which seem to _see_ my music CD.
Has anyone else had this problem?
Thanks,
Chris.
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#6 2009-03-18 12:22:51
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Re: [SOLVED] My CD isn't recognised.
You aren't by any chance running Arch in VirtualBox, are you? (Reading music CDs directly from the host's optical drive is currently broken in VirtualBox guests.)
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#7 2009-03-18 12:46:28
- chris_debian
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Re: [SOLVED] My CD isn't recognised.
You aren't by any chance running Arch in VirtualBox, are you? (Reading music CDs directly from the host's optical drive is currently broken in VirtualBox guests.)
Thanks for your reply, but no, i'm not.
Chris.
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#8 2009-03-18 13:00:25
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Re: [SOLVED] My CD isn't recognised.
Slight progress :-)
I'm using xfce and have tried Audacious and Goggles Music Manager, neither of which seem to _see_ my music CD.
For the record: Goggles Music Manager doesn't support playing from CDs. So I wouldn't use that for a benchmark 
Can you rip the CD with grip?
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#9 2009-03-18 13:06:12
- chris_debian
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Re: [SOLVED] My CD isn't recognised.
Ahhhh!
Just installed it the other day; that would explain that, then. I'll need to find a music player that does support CD's and is fairly light.
Just noticed that VLC sees the disc.
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