cd's with .wav files

[Rob]

 This may have been addressed before ,but I couldn't find anything .
 Well anyway I'm not able to play .wav files off a cd in amarok and tried rhythmbox but got same thing.
My question is : Is this a kde4 problem ? I thought it might be amarok but it also does it in rhythmbox.
 If anybody has a solution to this problem ,could you please share I would greatly appreciate it

[menotu]

Try Kaffeine.

BTW, are you getting sound normally?

[Rob]

Sound is fine .

[Was_Just19]

Are these WAV files you have saved to a Data CD?

[Rob]

no just regular music cd's

[Was_Just19]

no just regular music cd's

The files on an Audio CD are  CDA files and need to be transcoded if you want them in any other format such as flac, WAV, MP3 etc.

Nevertheless those applications should be able to play audio CDs

[Rob]

a few of the cd's were copied by a friend but I don't know what the originals were but updating to the newest kernel solved the problem

[Was_Just19]

Which kernel did not work and which did please?

[Rob]

kernel 2.6.32.12-pclos1.bfs did not work with the cd's
kernel 2.6.33.3-pclos1.bfs did work with the cd's

[T6]

if your friend didn't knew how to burn the songs to a cd properly is a problem, it is usually easier to convert the files to a real audio cd since wav files are very problematic, k3b can help with that

about the change of kernel helping, i don't understand why worked for you

[marian]

This may have been addressed before ,but I couldn't find anything .
 Well anyway I'm not able to play .wav files off a cd in amarok and tried rhythmbox but got same thing.
My question is : Is this a kde4 problem ? I thought it might be amarok but it also does it in rhythmbox.
 If anybody has a solution to this problem ,could you please share I would greatly appreciate it

You said "I'm not able to play .wav files off a cd..." what was a little confusing here because wav files can be burned also on data cd. While .cda files are only some kind of shortcuts on auduio cd with info about track times and help to access the specific tracks on audio cd.

[Rob]

I'm not sure about the cd's my friend burnt ,I guess they could be data cd's . I only know I couldn't play them before the kernel upgrade but now I can . Commercial cd's will play now also. To as why this worked is beyond me.

[Rob]

update : I tried to play cd's in rhythmbox which wouldn't recognize the cd's and then when I went back to amarok it would no longer work. when amarok did work with the cd's it showed audio cd in the interface. but now it no longer does so. also I was previously able to play cd's in kscd but no longer am I able to do that now. Where I previously thought the kernel upgrade did the trick I was obviosly wrong. I do notice however that the device notifier does not recognize I have inserted a cd everytime. I had to log out and back in before it would work. So I'm back to original problem .wav files and commercial cd's won't play . Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Was_Just19]

update : I tried to play cd's in rhythmbox which wouldn't recognize the cd's and then when I went back to amarok it would no longer work. when amarok did work with the cd's it showed audio cd in the interface. but now it no longer does so. also I was previously able to play cd's in kscd but no longer am I able to do that now. Where I previously thought the kernel upgrade did the trick I was obviosly wrong. I do notice however that the device notifier does not recognize I have inserted a cd everytime. I had to log out and back in before it would work. So I'm back to original problem .wav files and commercial cd's won't play . Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I think this redefines the problem, which appears to be that on insertion optical media is not reliably recognised by the system.

Is that correct do you think?

[Rob]

that may be, but I'm not sure as I don't know how the system recognizes cd's.