Linux won't read music cd's???

[mcveigh]

I haven't put a music cd in a computer in years but tried to put GNR cd into my linux box and it won't mount it.

OK what filesystem is a music cd in? I want to try specifing it in /etc/fstab

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

You don't mount it; it's not a filesystem. You use an audio cd playing program such as xmms or kscd.

 

[mcveigh]

xmms ACTS LIKE IT'S PLAYING BUT NO SOUND COMES OUT. it plays mp3's fine.

darn caps lock

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

I never could figure out how to get xmms to play over the ide channel, only the analog audio cable (which I didn't have plugged in - perhaps you don't either). IIRC kscd worked fine for me.

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
I never could figure out how to get xmms to play over the ide channel, only the analog audio cable (which I didn't have plugged in - perhaps you don't either). IIRC kscd worked fine for me.

I don't have mine plugged in, but it does work.

 

[drag]

I donno If the mp3's play fine and the cd starts up and turns around like it's playing and no sound comes out then it could be 2 things off of the top of my head... 1. the cdrom analog cord ain't hooked up, or 2. the cdrom volume is turned down or muted.

If you got a fancy sound card like I do, (audigy) sometimes it plays to the wrong channel.. you know go to the back speakers instead of the front, so switching around the cords if you got more then one output might reveal the problem...

Athough it doesn't sound like it, some music companies intentionally make defects in the design of their cdrom's so they won't play on more sensitive computers cd drives, but work fine on the reletivly primitive music cd players... It'll act like it has a scratch or something like that... You can tell defective/protected cd's based on the fact that Philips (developers of the original music cd) refuses to put their trademark audio cd logo on read-protected music cds (retarded cds) due to the intentionally non-standard manufacturing process

 

[mcveigh]

shouldn't I be able to at least mount the cd and rip the files? the cd it self is a bout 10 yrs old, so I don't think there is any protection on it.

 

[Priit]

You don't neet to mount CD for ripping audio. Grab a program (like cdda2wav, cdparanoia or grip if you want GUI) and give it a try

 

[mcveigh]

This is what I get from cdparanoia. I have a scsi cdrom.

[seth@localhost seth]$ cdparanoia -B -- "-1"
cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001)
(C) 2001 Monty <monty@xiph.org> and Xiphophorus

Report bugs to paranoia@xiph.org
http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/


/dev/cdrom exists but isn't accessible. By default,
cdparanoia stops searching for an accessible drive here.
Consider using -sv to force a more complete autosense
of the machine.

More information about /dev/cdrom:
Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom...
Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface
/dev/scd0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM.
Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface
No generic SCSI device found to match CDROM device /dev/scd0

 

[mcveigh]

OK I found out I can rip as ROOT only, but I still can't play from the cdrom as root either