Error in Totem movie player

[Stygwirt]

Whenever I try to play a CD it sometimes works but other times I get this error, and it is very often.

Totem could not play this media (Audio CD) although a plugin is present to handle it.
You might want to check that a disc is present in the drive and that it is correctly configured.

and there's a disc in the drive... how do I configure it?

[lmo]

I have been searching for an answer to that same thing for a long time. I gave up on Totem. Rhythmbox has done similar wierd things -- sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I have had better luck with Sound Juicer and xmms.

I did find a clunky workaround for that Totem error though. Here is the funny business

Un-check 
 ->Configuration Editor
 ---->desktop
 -------->gnome
 ---------------->volume manager :: automount media
Eject the CD
Exit Totem
Start Totem
Click Movie
Hover the mouse over: Play disc 'CD ... (the drive that will soon have the CD inserted)
Insert the CD
Wait to hear the CD spin up
Click the mouse

There is one other thing that I did and I am not shure whether it helped or not.

Added this line to /etc/lvm/lvm.conf:
filter = [ "r|/dev/cdrom.*|", "r|/dev/dvd|", "r|/dev/hdf|", "r|/dev/hdd|" ]

Deleted the file:
/etc/lvm/.cache

because lvm.conf says you can.

/dev/hdd is my CD-RW drive
/dev/hdf is my DVD drive

Not sure if this is a bug or a bugaboo.