AUDIO CD's

[veritas]

Before I reinstalled, my cd players could find audio cd's but not play them. Now I can't mount audio cd's but I can mount data cd's. For audio cd's it says it can't read the "superblock". I'll bet there is somthing simple that will fix this. Suggestions? Thanks.

[ghaefb]

Why would you want to mount audio CD ?
You can listen to audio cd with gnome CDplayer, Xmms or you can rip an audio cd with Grip, SoundJuicer, but you can't mount it :)

Read here for more -> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=25840

[veritas]

Oh, I gotcha...I guess I am used to windows where a player will pop up when you put an audio cd in or where you can click on the cd and it will start in a player. Now I'm back to my original issue of players not being able to play audio cd's. xmms correctly identifies the number of tracks but it won't play. It thinks it's playing as I can push the "stop" button, but nothing actually happens and the little progress bar just sits there. Some people thought this meant I didn't have an audio cable to my cd player...I'm hoping there are other answers not involving my tracking down and connecting up an audio cable to I don't know where. Maybe there is a tutorial on this somewhere? Works fine in Windows, so I know the cd rom drive is not the issue.

[PeTzZz]

You can configure Gnome (if you have Gnome) to automatically play audio CD's from the menu entry: Preferences-->Removable Storage. There should be an option like 'Play audio CDs when inserted' and the command is by default 'gnome-cd --unique --play --device %d'. Actually by default it is enabled and it loads your songs in Gnome CD Player.
and the little progress bar just sits there
What do you mean with it? Does the progress bar move when the song is playing?

To check that the problem is because you have not connected that cable, you can connect speakers directly to cd-rom drive panel and change the volume a bit up (from the cd-rom drive panel) in case it is muted to zero. That way you can make sure if it is because of that cable. If you get sound in this way, then it is because you haven't plugged that cable. Otherwise it is because of some other thing.

[veritas]

two sets of questions arise. No, three.

One...I did not add myself to the group "disk" which I think is necessary to play audio cds. Now I have, but still no luck. Is there another group needed?

Two: When I use the gnome cd player I just get this error:

** (gnome-cd:9873): WARNING **: Generic IO error
Again, it can see how many tracks there are, but just can't play.

three: I'm trying to install goobox, as this may use digital rather than analog. After doing a ./configure I get the following error(s)

checking for pkg-config... no
checking for orbit2-config... no
checking for ORBit - version >= 2.3.0... no
*** The orbit2-config script installed by ORBIT could not be found
*** If ORBit was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the ORBIT_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to orbit2-config.
checking for orbit-idl-2... :
*** The pkg-config script could not be found. Make sure it is
*** in your path, or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable
*** to the full path to pkg-config.
*** Or see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig to get pkg-config.
configure: error: Library requirements ( glib-2.0 >= 2.4.0 g thread-2.0 gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4.0 l ibgnome-2.0 >= 2.6.0 libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.6.0 libbonobo-2.0 >= 2.6.0 gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.6.0 gnome-vfs-module-2.0 l ibglade-2.0 >= 2.4.0 gstreamer-0.8 >= 0.8.0 gstreamer-libs-0 .8 gstreamer-play-0.8 g streamer-gconf-0.8) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find th em.


First, Synaptic says I have orbit and orbit2 installed, so why can't the configure find them. I didn't move anything.
I also just installed pkgconfig. I also see that gstreamer-gconf-0.8 is "not met" but gstreamer is installed as is gconf...I don't know what the putting together the two with a hyphen means.

It also mentions a "prefix" file. I have no such thing. Any ideas why this is so difficult?

[veritas]

petzz, the gnome player comes up but it just sits there. It identifies the number of tracks but gives no information.

You can configure Gnome (if you have Gnome) to automatically play audio CD's from the menu entry: Preferences-->Removable Storage. There should be an option like 'Play audio CDs when inserted' and the command is by default 'gnome-cd --unique --play --device %d'. Actually by default it is enabled and it loads your songs in Gnome CD Player.
Quote:
and the little progress bar just sits there

What do you mean with it? Does the progress bar move when the song is playing?

To check that the problem is because you have not connected that cable, you can connect speakers directly to cd-rom drive panel and change the volume a bit up (from the cd-rom drive panel) in case it is muted to zero. That way you can make sure if it is because of that cable. If you get sound in this way, then it is because you haven't plugged that cable. Otherwise it is because of some other thing.


What I meant by "the little progress bar sits there" is that it does not move. The song never plays. I can't get the cd to play so putting the speakers into the cd player itself won't work...nothing happens.

I just tried rhythmbox...and I'm completely confused about that. I tried to import from the cd...and it opened the sound juicer box. That correctly identified the album and the tracks. I imported one track. The music player help file says I need to hit "organize" to add this to my playlist, but there is no organize button anywhere in any menu. I clicked on it directly and Helix and it said "requested file not found, the link you followed may not be accurate.." But I CLICKED ON THE FILE ITSELF.

And rhythmbox won't import as a wav file because it says ...oh sheesh...nevermind. Too many errors to even deal with. Screw rhythmbox for now.

Oh, and irrespective of the post by ghaefb and all the people who say "you don't mount audio cd's" well, that's fine, but when I go to helix and ask it to open the cd-rw drive to play the music I get the following error:

Could not mount CD-RW Drive:
Unable to mount the selected volume.:
/dev/hdd: Input/output error
mount: block device /dev/hdd is write-protected, mounting read-only
/dev/hdd: Input/output error
mount: /dev/hdd: can't read superblock

I did attempt to change the permissions, but that didn't seem to work as I got this error after I went to 777. I checked and that's the permissions as listed now.

This is insanely difficult. I assume that it is my cdrom player. Unfortunately, my cdplayer doesn't work at all...hardware issue as it doesn't work in Windows, either.

sigh

[veritas]

correction...didn't notice the play button on the cdrom drive itself. It will play from the front...directly connected to my earphones. However, it does not actually spin when I try to play from gnome-cdplayer. So I still can't say if it's a cable issue. However, if I insert cd...gnome cd player does come up and then I cannot play from connecting directly with my earphones. If I close out gnome cd, it will play.

[veritas]

Just tried totem and I get :

Totem could not play 'cdda://'.
Failed to open; reason unknown

IN the terminal it says this: WARNING **: don't know how to read cdda://


Every player won't work but every player gives a different reason. Starting to sound like a hardware conflict. Unfortunately, this hardware works fine in Windows, so I can't justify buying another one. To reiterate...some players say they can't open, while gnome cd player identifies that it's there and how many tracks but doesn't spin the cd.

XMMS does nothing at all, as far as I can tell.

[veritas]

All right you hackers out there!!!! Guess what...the only player that can read the cd is totem-xine! That's right. Identified the cd and played with no hassle. So here is the question of the day. Why would xmms, gnome cdplayer and helix be unable to play what totem-xine can? It could be the audio cable deal...but I swear the little light on the cdrom indicating activity doesn't flash when gnome cd is trying. Anyway, I found a solution...though an awfully mysterious one.

[veritas]

This is an interesting problem. I tried to change the command line when I went to applications--preferences--removable storage. If I insert a CD I get this error:

Totem could not play 'file:///dev/hdd'.
There is no plugin to handle this movie.

If I simply click "movie" and then choose play cd from totem...it works great.

Here's the command in drives and media preferences:

totem --unique --play --device %d

I have no idea what this means. All I did was cut out gnome-cd and put in totem. the rest is unchanged. I'd be interested in having it work, but I post this more to solve the little mystery about my cd player.

[PeTzZz]

Really strange. Here (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=41627) is in some way a similar problem. Maybe before the reinstallation you have made all updates, but now you haven't. If so, try updating HAL and udev as suggested in that thread.

[veritas]

Well, if it gets updated by up2date, it has been updated. I'm quite happy that totem-xine works, but this is one of those things that happens to a small minority and if my experience can help point the way for others I'd like to do that.