Unable to Play CD

[ms_meme]

I am not able to play a CD.  I have had this problem for a long time.  But since I don't play many CD's, I have avoided bringing it up. I have briefly mentioned it to some off the forum and got some ideas or help but nothing I have tried seems to work.  I know I have played CD's when I first installed PCLinuxOS. I don't remember when I first noticed it not working but it has been at least  6 months or more.  I am using KDE but also switch to Xfce and it doesn't play there either.

If I remember right, the CD might play if I try right when I first boot up.  But that info may be misleading.

I can play the CD's in Windows so I don't feel its a hardware problem.

I feel it is time to start from the beginning and see what is wrong. I need to start with.

1. Take the CD out of the case.....and continue from there. What is next?  What should appear etc.

Thanks.

[Just17]

Do you have VLC installed?

If so try the following ....

Media - Open Disc ..... and select Audio CD  ... use the eject button next to the Browse button to open the tray and insert the Audio CD.

Then select play from the bottom of the page.

If it throws an error copy and paste it in your next post.


regards.

[ms_meme]

Do you have VLC installed?

Looking in Synaptic, I saw a lot of differen VLC entries, but I didn't see any that are checked.  Which on should I install?

[raycleve]

I am using PCLOS 2011.06, it has several vlc's installed but the basic one is 1.1.11. Just what was installed when I installed  the distro and the CD played when inserted.
Cheers. Ray

[ms_meme]

I am now posting from another partition that has 2010 installed...from last May.........no updates.  Just left over from that date.

I am listening to the CD's.  The Audio CD shows in the left hand column and all the songs show in the Page.  It is a bit jerky but that may be the CD.  I don't know.  But I hear  it.

[Just17]

Do you have VLC installed?

Looking in Synaptic, I saw a lot of differen VLC entries, but I didn't see any that are checked.  Which on should I install?

the one simply named    vlc   

[raycleve]

I hadn't even thought of playing a CD. Seems not too long ago, I was using a distro that didn't have the ability. Another plus for PCLinuxOS.
Cheers. Ray

[ms_meme]

OK working now........so far. 

A friend sent me a CD that he and his son made.  They play guitar etc and sing.  I love hearing friends sing.  They put up with my little ditty stuff, but these two play really professionally.  Sorta Western style.  Wish I could share.

Thanks.

[Vorteggs]

I have similar problem from the very install of KDE 2010 more than a year ago and after that in FullMonty as well.

The CDs I am trying to listen to are burned by myself with K3d audioCD project for my friends.

Banshee and VLC play audio CD nice but all others don't want at all.

I suppose it is a mounting problem.

Would like to post some observations on trying to play it with:
Clementine
Music-->Open media...-->Audio CD. Click on a .wav file doesn't allow opening -
"You can only select local files"

Amarok
Play media...-->Audio CD. Click on a .wav file, open file dialog window
disappears but nothing else happens, Amarok isn't freezed.

SMPlayer
Open-->Audio CD. There is CD drive activity and a note at the bottom "Cache fill: 0.00%". This goes for a long time, top showing smplayer and mplayer eating some CPU percents. I opened once again Audio CD and SMPlayer crashed, mplayer still active in top  and CD drive working.

KsCD (a CD player)
Screen showing the tracks name scrolling but no sound (is not muted) and no CD drive activity.

When I am in FullMonty I try other players and they don't play CD as well.
-------------------------------------------------

Opening the CD in Dolphin and clicking on a file starts some kind of
transfer/copying as shown by Notifications and Jobs in the System Tray. CD
drive active (very active ).

Source: audiocd:/Track 01.wav?device=/dev/sr0
Destination: /tmp/kdecache-<user>/krun/20764.0.Track 01.wav

Sometimes copying speeds are shown and they are very low, often 0 bytes/s, though CD drive is working hard and could work for days if I don't stop it.
/media/cdrom is empty, /mnt/cdrom doesnt exist.
fstab says

/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,ro 0

mtab doesn't list cdrom or /dev/sr0 or related when CD is opened in Dolphin or is played with Banshee.
Have no problems with data CDs and with the drive itself.

[menotu]

Amarok
Play media...-->Audio CD. Click on a .wav file, open file dialog window
disappears but nothing else happens, Amarok isn't freezed.

This may interest you Vorteks re Amarok

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,95080.0.html

[Vorteggs]

Amarok
Play media...-->Audio CD. Click on a .wav file, open file dialog window
disappears but nothing else happens, Amarok isn't freezed.

This may interest you Vorteks re Amarok

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,95080.0.html

Thank you menotu!
I forgot to mention the CDs I am trying to listen to are burned by myself with K3d audioCD project for my friends. I'll edit the previous post

[Just17]

I have tried most of the media players I have installed and VLC is the only one which plays the CDs except Clementine & Kaffeine.

Others cannot find  kio_audiocd  on which they depend apparently.

(Bangarang; Loopy; Whaaw!; Kmplayer; Smplayer; Sparkle Media; Kaffeine)

Kaffeine
              Plays the first track on the CD and the drive is spinning waaaaay too fast. It doesn't seem to go any further than the first track here.
If you try to get a list from the CD it also fails due to the kio_audiocd problem.

Clementine .....  right click on the Audio CD entry, select Device Properties and the File Formats tab - Open Device .....  that seems to kick Clementine into some sort of life and it lists wav files on the main page.

It is still not correct though ....


VLC, because it is completely independent, plays the CDs regardless of problems.
Only thing there is that if you have more than one optical drive in the PC you may have to edit the device listing from   /dev/cdrom  to /dev/cdrom1 or /dev/cdrom2 etc.

regards.

[Just17]

I installed kdemultimedia4 which seems toi have made a difference ....  Kaffeine will now play more than one track and SMPlayer will also play the CD.

Maybe it would be prudent to reinstall all the multimedia packages to see if it would make any difference  .....

kdemultimedia4
kdemultimedia4-<audiocd; juk; kscd; etc etc>

[Vorteggs]

Clementine .....  right click on the Audio CD entry, select Device Properties and the File Formats tab - Open Device .....  that seems to kick Clementine into some sort of life and it lists wav files on the main page.

This showed me that cdrom /dev/sr0 is mounted at /home/<user>/.gvfs/cdda mount on sr0. Yes files are seen there and I can listen to them by right-click the files by the players that wouldn't do that if you try the way I described in the previous post. I can also successfully open them if I navigate to this location from the players under question.

[Vorteggs]

kdemultimedia4* - I already had them installed except -help which I am installing now.