[gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Colleen Beamer]

Hi everyone,

I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to
resolve the issue.

My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.  I've
tried with kscd and Kaffeine.  Haven't installed amarok yet.  I've
checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel.  In /dev cdrom is a
symlink to sr0.  Nothing I've read in anything that came up in my google
search helped.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Colleen

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[gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Colleen Beamer]

Hi everyone,

I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to
resolve the issue.

My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.  I've
tried with kscd and Kaffeine.  Haven't installed amarok yet.  I've
checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel.  In /dev cdrom is a
symlink to sr0.  Nothing I've read in anything that came up in my google
search helped.

Oops!  Forgot to add this to my original message:

When I try to play an audio CD in kaffeine, I get an alert box that says:
Cannot find input plgin for MRL "cdda://"

cdda is one of my USE flags.  I have tried upgrading phonon-gstreamer
'cause I read somewhere that the problem might be with phonon.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Colleen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer
<colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to
> resolve the issue.
>
> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.  I've
> tried with kscd and Kaffeine.  Haven't installed amarok yet.  I've
> checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel.  In /dev cdrom is a
> symlink to sr0.  Nothing I've read in anything that came up in my google
> search helped.
>
> Oops!  Forgot to add this to my original message:
>
> When I try to play an audio CD in kaffeine, I get an alert box that says:
> Cannot find input plgin for MRL "cdda://"
>
> cdda is one of my USE flags.  I have tried upgrading phonon-gstreamer
> 'cause I read somewhere that the problem might be with phonon.
>
> Any ideas?
>

Have you Googled extensively on that error message? It seems that
there are a lot of people that have had it and most of the forum
threads I looked at seemed to have either some suggestions or possibly
answers.

- Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Dale]

Colleen Beamer wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to
> resolve the issue.
>
> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.  I've
> tried with kscd and Kaffeine.  Haven't installed amarok yet.  I've
> checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel.  In /dev cdrom is a
> symlink to sr0.  Nothing I've read in anything that came up in my google
> search helped.
>
> Oops!  Forgot to add this to my original message:
>
> When I try to play an audio CD in kaffeine, I get an alert box that says:
> Cannot find input plgin for MRL "cdda://"
>
> cdda is one of my USE flags.  I have tried upgrading phonon-gstreamer
> 'cause I read somewhere that the problem might be with phonon.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
>
> Colleen
>
> ------------------
>
>
>
>


OK.  It is silly things like this that bites me in the rear.  Is your 
user added to the cdrom or similar groups?

One thing you could try, run the program as root in a terminal, Konsole 
here for me.  That will eliminate a permissions issue real quick and you 
can look for errors too.  If it works, then it is just a permissions 
problem.  If it doesn't work, then it is something with the program 
itself or hardware related.  Let's hope for the permissions one.  It's 
easier to fix and you don't have to take the sides off the puter 
either.  If it is the program, well, who knows when that could get fixed.

Ma'am. < tips hat >

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Colleen Beamer]

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On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer
> <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to
>> resolve the issue.
>>
>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's. I've
>> tried with kscd and Kaffeine. Haven't installed amarok yet. I've
>> checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel. In /dev cdrom is a
>> symlink to sr0. Nothing I've read in anything that came up in my google
>> search helped.
>>
>> Oops! Forgot to add this to my original message:
>>
>> When I try to play an audio CD in kaffeine, I get an alert box that says:
>> Cannot find input plgin for MRL "cdda://"
>>
>> cdda is one of my USE flags. I have tried upgrading phonon-gstreamer
>> 'cause I read somewhere that the problem might be with phonon.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>
> Have you Googled extensively on that error message? It seems that
> there are a lot of people that have had it and most of the forum
> threads I looked at seemed to have either some suggestions or possibly
> answers.

Yes, I have googled for much of today.  There are a lot of responses,
but I tried to stick to one where it was related to gentoo.  Like I
said, there is a symlink that links cdrom to sr0.  One of the things I
found when I googled said that they made a symlink to sr0 from cdrom.
That didn't make sense to me so. I didn't try it.

Another post suggested that there was a problem with phonon.  Hence, I
emerge an upgrade (albeit unstable) to phonon-gstreamer.  In honesty,
one thing I didn't try was writing a udev rule that was suggested.
Call me stubborn, but I've never had to write a rule to get an audio
CD to play before so, I will only do that as a last resort.

I've tried to stay away from posts that were back in 2003 and 2004
'cause they may not be relevant now.

The line in my fstab is:

/dev/cdrom    /mnt/cdrom    auto    noauto,user    0 0

Maybe I should have said /dev/sr0?

I may have to keep plugging, but thought I would post in case anyone
else has encountered this problem.



Regards,

Colleen
>
> - Mark
>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Colleen Beamer]

On 10/18/11 19:51, Dale wrote:
> Colleen Beamer wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.  I've
>> tried with kscd and Kaffeine.  Haven't installed amarok yet.  I've
>> checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel.  In /dev cdrom is a
>> symlink to sr0.  Nothing I've read in anything that came up in my google
>> search helped.
>>
>> Oops!  Forgot to add this to my original message:
>>
>> When I try to play an audio CD in kaffeine, I get an alert box that
>> says:
>> Cannot find input plgin for MRL "cdda://"
>>
>> cdda is one of my USE flags.  I have tried upgrading phonon-gstreamer
>> 'cause I read somewhere that the problem might be with phonon.
>> ------------------
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>   Is your user added to the cdrom or similar groups?
Yes!  :-)  In my more "newbie" days, this was one thing that bit ME in
the butt a few times so, I've learned to cover that base before I cry
wolf!  :-)
>
>
> One thing you could try, run the program as root in a terminal,
> Konsole here for me.
Running kscd in a console as root, starts kscd.  The first time I tried
it, I got a message about "asound".  I tried running it under by user id
and got no error message.  I ran it again as root thinking I would post
the message, but didn't get any message the second time.

Likewise, for kaffeine, but neither will play an audio CD when started
this way either.

> That will eliminate a permissions issue real quick and you can look
> for errors too.  If it works, then it is just a permissions problem. 
> If it doesn't work, then it is something with the program itself or
> hardware related.  Let's hope for the permissions one.  It's easier to
> fix and you don't have to take the sides off the puter either.  If it
> is the program, well, who knows when that could get fixed.

I doubt that it is a hardware issue.  The drive reads data CD's and
sound works on the computer - in Juk (which I don't normally use 'cause
I prefer amarok) and also in kaffeine, I can play an audio file that I
have on my hard drive.

>
> Ma'am. < tips hat >

Sir.  <curtsies>

:-)
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Colleen Beamer
<colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
>>>
>>> cdda is one of my USE flags. I have tried upgrading phonon-gstreamer
>>> 'cause I read somewhere that the problem might be with phonon.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>
>> Have you Googled extensively on that error message? It seems that
>> there are a lot of people that have had it and most of the forum
>> threads I looked at seemed to have either some suggestions or possibly
>> answers.
>
> Yes, I have googled for much of today.  There are a lot of responses,
> but I tried to stick to one where it was related to gentoo.  Like I
> said, there is a symlink that links cdrom to sr0.  One of the things I
> found when I googled said that they made a symlink to sr0 from cdrom.
> That didn't make sense to me so. I didn't try it.
>
> Another post suggested that there was a problem with phonon.  Hence, I
> emerge an upgrade (albeit unstable) to phonon-gstreamer.  In honesty,
> one thing I didn't try was writing a udev rule that was suggested.
> Call me stubborn, but I've never had to write a rule to get an audio
> CD to play before so, I will only do that as a last resort.
>
> I've tried to stay away from posts that were back in 2003 and 2004
> 'cause they may not be relevant now.
>
> The line in my fstab is:
>
> /dev/cdrom    /mnt/cdrom    auto    noauto,user    0 0
>
> Maybe I should have said /dev/sr0?
>
> I may have to keep plugging, but thought I would post in case anyone
> else has encountered this problem.
>

Sorry. I'm not picking on you. Maybe it sounded that way. I apologize if it did.

Along the lines of what Dale suggested is your user account part of
the audio group?

I've not had any problem with Linux audio in a while, at least not CD
playing, although I don't do a lot of that in Linux so maybe I've
missed something. I will say from personal experience that I've had
the fewest problems with xine but it has a fairly involved user
interface that isn't the easiest thing to get through if you've not
used it before. I use it all the time for DVDs, and sometimes for CDs
although all of that is digitized these days and I hardly ever touch
physical CDs.

Again, my apologies if I ticked you off. I do that sometimes. :-) ;-)

- Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Colleen Beamer]

On 10/18/11 21:07, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Colleen Beamer
> <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
> <SNIP>
>>>> cdda is one of my USE flags. I have tried upgrading phonon-gstreamer
>>>> 'cause I read somewhere that the problem might be with phonon.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>> Have you Googled extensively on that error message? It seems that
>>> there are a lot of people that have had it and most of the forum
>>> threads I looked at seemed to have either some suggestions or possibly
>>> answers.
>> Yes, I have googled for much of today.  There are a lot of responses,
>> but I tried to stick to one where it was related to gentoo.  Like I
>> said, there is a symlink that links cdrom to sr0.  One of the things I
>> found when I googled said that they made a symlink to sr0 from cdrom.
>> That didn't make sense to me so. I didn't try it.
>>
>> Another post suggested that there was a problem with phonon.  Hence, I
>> emerge an upgrade (albeit unstable) to phonon-gstreamer.  In honesty,
>> one thing I didn't try was writing a udev rule that was suggested.
>> Call me stubborn, but I've never had to write a rule to get an audio
>> CD to play before so, I will only do that as a last resort.
>>
>> I've tried to stay away from posts that were back in 2003 and 2004
>> 'cause they may not be relevant now.
>>
>> The line in my fstab is:
>>
>> /dev/cdrom    /mnt/cdrom    auto    noauto,user    0 0
>>
>> Maybe I should have said /dev/sr0?
>>
>> I may have to keep plugging, but thought I would post in case anyone
>> else has encountered this problem.
>>
> Sorry. I'm not picking on you. Maybe it sounded that way. I apologize if it did.
>
> Along the lines of what Dale suggested is your user account part of
> the audio group?
I responded to this via Dale's post, but yes, I did! :-)  Like I told
Dale, this was one thing that bit me in the butt a few times when I was
more of a "newbie".  :-)
>
> Again, my apologies if I ticked you off. I do that sometimes. :-) ;-)

You certainly *did not* tick me off.  I was just explaining.  Sorry if
you perceived that I was angry.  I just wanted to let you know that I
had put in some effort myself before "asking for a handout".

I could never get angry at anyone on this list - everyone has always
been very helpful when I needed it.  I may get frustrated, but at a
situation, not at a person directly.

Colleen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Colleen Beamer]

Semi-solved.

On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer
> <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>
>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.  I've
>> tried with kscd and Kaffeine.
>>
>>
>> When I try to play an audio CD in kaffeine, I get an alert box that says:
>> Cannot find input plgin for MRL "cdda://"
I can now play an audio CD in kaffeine.  I have no idea what I did!  I
did add a couple of packages and because of this changed some use flags
and updated my system with --newuse, but that's all I did.

However, I still cannot play a CD in kscd.

Regards,

Colleen



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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Dale]

Colleen Beamer wrote:
> Semi-solved.
>
> On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer
>> <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>>
>>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.  I've
>>> tried with kscd and Kaffeine.
>>>
>>>
>>> When I try to play an audio CD in kaffeine, I get an alert box that says:
>>> Cannot find input plgin for MRL "cdda://"
> I can now play an audio CD in kaffeine.  I have no idea what I did!  I
> did add a couple of packages and because of this changed some use flags
> and updated my system with --newuse, but that's all I did.
>
> However, I still cannot play a CD in kscd.
>
> Regards,
>
> Colleen
>
>
>

Just use Kaffeine then.  ROFL

Maybe someone will know a fix soon.  I just had to pick tho.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Mick]

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On Wednesday 19 Oct 2011 04:54:02 Colleen Beamer wrote:
> On 10/18/11 21:07, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Colleen Beamer
> > <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > <SNIP>
> > 
> >>>> cdda is one of my USE flags. I have tried upgrading phonon-gstreamer
> >>>> 'cause I read somewhere that the problem might be with phonon.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Any ideas?
> >>> 
> >>> Have you Googled extensively on that error message? It seems that
> >>> there are a lot of people that have had it and most of the forum
> >>> threads I looked at seemed to have either some suggestions or possibly
> >>> answers.
> >> 
> >> Yes, I have googled for much of today.  There are a lot of responses,
> >> but I tried to stick to one where it was related to gentoo.  Like I
> >> said, there is a symlink that links cdrom to sr0.  One of the things I
> >> found when I googled said that they made a symlink to sr0 from cdrom.
> >> That didn't make sense to me so. I didn't try it.
> >> 
> >> Another post suggested that there was a problem with phonon.  Hence, I
> >> emerge an upgrade (albeit unstable) to phonon-gstreamer.  In honesty,
> >> one thing I didn't try was writing a udev rule that was suggested.
> >> Call me stubborn, but I've never had to write a rule to get an audio
> >> CD to play before so, I will only do that as a last resort.
> >> 
> >> I've tried to stay away from posts that were back in 2003 and 2004
> >> 'cause they may not be relevant now.
> >> 
> >> The line in my fstab is:
> >> 
> >> /dev/cdrom    /mnt/cdrom    auto    noauto,user    0 0

To listen to audio CDs you should *not* mount the CD.  Therefore the above 
entry is not required.

Since you are trying to use KDE apps to play CDs you ought to check that you 
have installed:

  kde-base/kdemultimedia-meta
  kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves

HTH.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Andrey Moshbear]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 03:51, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> To listen to audio CDs you should *not* mount the CD.  Therefore the above
> entry is not required.
>
> Since you are trying to use KDE apps to play CDs you ought to check that you
> have installed:
>
>  kde-base/kdemultimedia-meta
>  kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves
>

If you're using a good chunk of kde, emerge kde-base/kde-meta. Makes
kde upgrades simpler, and less pollution in the world file.

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Joerg Schilling]

Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to
> resolve the issue.
>
> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.  I've
> tried with kscd and Kaffeine.  Haven't installed amarok yet.  I've
> checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel.  In /dev cdrom is a
> symlink to sr0.  Nothing I've read in anything that came up in my google
> search helped.

If you have only one CD drive, the CD will play with:

	cdda2wav -e -B -N

Jörg

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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Florian Philipp]

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Am 19.10.2011 01:09, schrieb Colleen Beamer:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to
> resolve the issue.
> 
> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.  I've
> tried with kscd and Kaffeine.  Haven't installed amarok yet.  I've
> checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel.  In /dev cdrom is a
> symlink to sr0.  Nothing I've read in anything that came up in my google
> search helped.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Colleen
> 

1. Can you try something that is not related to KDE like VLC (might need
USE=cdda)?
2. What use flags has media-libs/phonon enabled?
3. Which backend for phonon is activated (system settings -> multimedia)?

Regards,
Florian Philipp


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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[J. Roeleveld]

On Wed, October 19, 2011 7:39 am, Colleen Beamer wrote:
>
> Semi-solved.
>
> On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer
>> <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>>
>>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.  I've
>>> tried with kscd and Kaffeine.
>>>
>>>
>>> When I try to play an audio CD in kaffeine, I get an alert box that
>>> says:
>>> Cannot find input plgin for MRL "cdda://"
> I can now play an audio CD in kaffeine.  I have no idea what I did!  I
> did add a couple of packages and because of this changed some use flags
> and updated my system with --newuse, but that's all I did.
>
> However, I still cannot play a CD in kscd.

Hi Colleen,

I didn't find it in this thread yet, but I am wondering if you have the
CD-drive connected to the soundcard or not.

Some applications will "rip" and play the cdda-tracks directly from the
CD. Others will simply tell the CD-drive to play an audio-cd and have the
cd-drive do the decoding.
In the latter case, the audio-signal goes over a little cable from the
cd-drive to the soundcard.

--
Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Joerg Schilling
<Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to
>> resolve the issue.
>>
>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.  I've
>> tried with kscd and Kaffeine.  Haven't installed amarok yet.  I've
>> checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel.  In /dev cdrom is a
>> symlink to sr0.  Nothing I've read in anything that came up in my google
>> search helped.
>
> If you have only one CD drive, the CD will play with:
>
>        cdda2wav -e -B -N
>
> Jörg

On my system here the above command didn't result in any audio being
played, nor do I find any files left on disk. I suspect it's because
of the message:

cdda2wav: Bad file descriptor. Cannot open sound device '/dev/dsp'.

Now, I have a Virtualbox VM open running Windows NT where I was
watching a movie earlier. Possibly it still has /dev/dsp locked?

 mark@c2stable ~ $ ls -la /dev/dsp
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 14, 3 Oct 19 06:23 /dev/dsp
mark@c2stable ~ $


The listing below took about 1 minute to generate.

- Mark



mark@c2stable ~ $ cdda2wav -e -B -N
No target specified, trying to find one...
Using dev=2,0,0.
Type: ROM, Vendor 'Optiarc ' Model 'DVD RW AD-7241S ' Revision '1.03' MMC+CDDA
176128 bytes buffer memory requested, transfer size 32768 bytes, 4
buffers, 13 sectors
#Cdda2wav version
3.00_linux_2.6.37-gentoo-r1_x86_64_intel-r--core-tm--i7-cpu-x-980-@-3.33ghz,
real time sched., soundcard, libparanoia support
AUDIOtrack pre-emphasis  copy-permitted tracktype channels
      1-18           no              no     audio    2
Table of Contents: total tracks:18, (total time 59:45.41)
  1.( 4:07.64),  2.( 1:27.54),  3.( 3:41.68),  4.( 0:50.18),  5.( 3:30.51),
  6.( 4:59.01),  7.( 5:45.06),  8.( 0:30.69),  9.( 3:56.48), 10.( 2:12.20),
 11.( 3:44.72), 12.( 5:41.52), 13.( 0:58.41), 14.( 1:52.41), 15.( 4:18.70),
 16.( 6:04.60), 17.( 3:40.73), 18.( 2:20.58)

Table of Contents: starting sectors
  1.(       0),  2.(   18589),  3.(   25168),  4.(   41811),  5.(   45579),
  6.(   61380),  7.(   83806),  8.(  109687),  9.(  112006), 10.(  129754),
 11.(  139674), 12.(  156546), 13.(  182173), 14.(  186564), 15.(  195005),
 16.(  214425), 17.(  241785), 18.(  258358), lead-out(  268916)
CDINDEX discid: QWQgyCFB8ze1Wlw9mEEz1IxiEG0-
CDDB discid: 0x040e0112
CD-Text: detected
CD-Extra: not detected
Album title: 'the Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion'     [from Dredg]
Track  1: 'Pariah'
Track  2: 'Drunk Slide'
Track  3: 'Ireland'
Track  4: 'Stamp of Origin: Pessimistic'
Track  5: 'Light Switch'
Track  6: 'Gathering Pebbles'
Track  7: 'Information'
Track  8: 'Stamp of Origin: Ocean Meets Bay'
Track  9: 'Saviour'
Track 10: 'R U O K?'
Track 11: 'I Don't Know'
Track 12: 'Mourning This Morning'
Track 13: 'Stamp of Origin: Take a Look Around'
Track 14: 'Long Days and Vague Clues'
Track 15: 'Cartoon Showroom'
Track 16: 'Quotes'
Track 17: 'Down to the Cellar'
Track 18: 'Stamp of Origin: Horizon'
cdda2wav: Bad file descriptor. Cannot open sound device '/dev/dsp'.
samplefile size will be 632490476 bytes.
recording 3585.5466 seconds stereo with 16 bits @ 44100.0 Hz
percent_done:
100%  track  1 'Pariah' recorded successfully
100%  track  2 'Drunk Slide' recorded successfully
100%  track  3 'Ireland' recorded successfully
100%  track  4 'Stamp of Origin: Pessimistic' recorded successfully
100%  track  5 'Light Switch' recorded successfully
100%  track  6 'Gathering Pebbles' recorded successfully
100%  track  7 'Information' recorded successfully
100%  track  8 'Stamp of Origin: Ocean Meets Bay' recorded
successfully
100%  track  9 'Saviour' recorded successfully
100%  track 10 'R U O K?' recorded successfully
100%  track 11 'I Don't Know' recorded successfully
100%  track 12 'Mourning This Morning' recorded successfully
100%  track 13 'Stamp of Origin: Take a Look Around' recorded successfully
100%  track 14 'Long Days and Vague Clues' recorded successfully
100%  track 15 'Cartoon Showroom' recorded successfully
100%  track 16 'Quotes' recorded successfully
100%  track 17 'Down to the Cellar' recorded successfully
100%  track 18 'Stamp of Origin: Horizon' recorded successfully
mark@c2stable ~ $

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Michael Schreckenbauer]

Hi Colleen,

On Tuesday, 18. October 2011 19:16:17 Colleen Beamer wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to
> resolve the issue.
> 
> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.  I've
> tried with kscd and Kaffeine.  Haven't installed amarok yet.  I've
> checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel.  In /dev cdrom is a
> symlink to sr0.  Nothing I've read in anything that came up in my google
> search helped.
> 
> Oops!  Forgot to add this to my original message:
> 
> When I try to play an audio CD in kaffeine, I get an alert box that says:
> Cannot find input plgin for MRL "cdda://"
> 
> cdda is one of my USE flags.  I have tried upgrading phonon-gstreamer
> 'cause I read somewhere that the problem might be with phonon.

gstreamer never worked for me. I use phonon-xine and audio-cds play fine with 
kscd and kaffeine. I checked phonon-vlc also and it works too.

Best,
Michael

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Joerg Schilling]

Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:

> > If you have only one CD drive, the CD will play with:
> >
> >        cdda2wav -e -B -N
> >
> > Jörg
>
> On my system here the above command didn't result in any audio being
> played, nor do I find any files left on disk. I suspect it's because
> of the message:
>
> cdda2wav: Bad file descriptor. Cannot open sound device '/dev/dsp'.
>
> Now, I have a Virtualbox VM open running Windows NT where I was
> watching a movie earlier. Possibly it still has /dev/dsp locked?
>
>  mark@c2stable ~ $ ls -la /dev/dsp
> crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 14, 3 Oct 19 06:23 /dev/dsp
> mark@c2stable ~ $

Well, then it may be impossible to create sound on your system in this state.



> The listing below took about 1 minute to generate.

Well, it did also _read_ the whole disk.

cdda2wav was able to extract the audio data and would have produced sound in 
case that the audio devices was accessible.

If I got the problem correctly, then other software was not able to find the 
right way to access the drive.

Jörg

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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Joerg Schilling
<Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > If you have only one CD drive, the CD will play with:
>> >
>> >        cdda2wav -e -B -N
>> >
>> > Jörg
>>
>> On my system here the above command didn't result in any audio being
>> played, nor do I find any files left on disk. I suspect it's because
>> of the message:
>>
>> cdda2wav: Bad file descriptor. Cannot open sound device '/dev/dsp'.
>>
>> Now, I have a Virtualbox VM open running Windows NT where I was
>> watching a movie earlier. Possibly it still has /dev/dsp locked?
>>
>>  mark@c2stable ~ $ ls -la /dev/dsp
>> crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 14, 3 Oct 19 06:23 /dev/dsp
>> mark@c2stable ~ $
>
> Well, then it may be impossible to create sound on your system in this state.
>

But that's only a guess on my part. Unless I shutdown all the VMs and
possibly also reboot the system to ensure nothing is left in the way I
won't know.

>
>
>> The listing below took about 1 minute to generate.
>
> Well, it did also _read_ the whole disk.
>
> cdda2wav was able to extract the audio data and would have produced sound in
> case that the audio devices was accessible.
>
> If I got the problem correctly, then other software was not able to find the
> right way to access the drive.
>
> Jörg


Certainly, I do get that in my case it did read the whole disk but I
use cdda2wav to copy CDs all the time so in my case I have no doubt
that program works. However cdda2wav continuing to do the copying when
it couldn't access the playback device seems like a bit of a waste,
but fixing it likely isn't worth the effort.

It would possibly be valuable for Colleen to run the same command also
just to compare.

- Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Colleen Beamer]

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On 10/19/11 03:51, Mick wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 Oct 2011 04:54:02 Colleen Beamer wrote:
>> On 10/18/11 21:07, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Colleen Beamer
>>> <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> <SNIP>
>>>
>>>>>> cdda is one of my USE flags. I have tried upgrading phonon-gstreamer
>>>>>> 'cause I read somewhere that the problem might be with phonon.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you Googled extensively on that error message? It seems that
>>>>> there are a lot of people that have had it and most of the forum
>>>>> threads I looked at seemed to have either some suggestions or possibly
>>>>> answers.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I have googled for much of today. There are a lot of responses,
>>>> but I tried to stick to one where it was related to gentoo. Like I
>>>> said, there is a symlink that links cdrom to sr0. One of the things I
>>>> found when I googled said that they made a symlink to sr0 from cdrom.
>>>> That didn't make sense to me so. I didn't try it.
>>>>
>>>> Another post suggested that there was a problem with phonon. Hence, I
>>>> emerge an upgrade (albeit unstable) to phonon-gstreamer. In honesty,
>>>> one thing I didn't try was writing a udev rule that was suggested.
>>>> Call me stubborn, but I've never had to write a rule to get an audio
>>>> CD to play before so, I will only do that as a last resort.
>>>>
>>>> I've tried to stay away from posts that were back in 2003 and 2004
>>>> 'cause they may not be relevant now.
>>>>
>>>> The line in my fstab is:
>>>>
>>>> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
>
> To listen to audio CDs you should *not* mount the CD. Therefore the above
> entry is not required.
Well, what can I say.  I followed the Gentoo Handbook.  :-)
>
> Since you are trying to use KDE apps to play CDs you ought to check
that you
> have installed:
>
> kde-base/kdemultimedia-meta
> kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves

Yes, have both installed.  :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Colleen Beamer]

On 10/19/11 04:41, Andrey Moshbear wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 03:51, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> To listen to audio CDs you should *not* mount the CD.  Therefore the above
>> entry is not required.
>>
>> Since you are trying to use KDE apps to play CDs you ought to check that you
>> have installed:
>>
>>  kde-base/kdemultimedia-meta
>>  kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves
>>
> If you're using a good chunk of kde, emerge kde-base/kde-meta. Makes
> kde upgrades simpler, and less pollution in the world file.

To be honest, I don't want "meta" anything, bur from what I understand,
sets don't come into play until 4.7 and that isn't stable yet.  I didn't
want to install unstable KDE.

Regards,

Colleen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Colleen Beamer]

On 10/19/11 05:45, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to
>> resolve the issue.
>>
>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.  I've
>> tried with kscd and Kaffeine.  Haven't installed amarok yet.  I've
>> checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel.  In /dev cdrom is a
>> symlink to sr0.  Nothing I've read in anything that came up in my google
>> search helped.
> If you have only one CD drive, the CD will play with:
>
> 	cdda2wav -e -B -N

Thanks, but this isn't really necessary any longer.  The only thing that
doesn't want to play an audio CD is kscd.  Kaffeine works fine.  Tried
to install kaudiocreator to rip CD's, but it kept crashing on start so,
I found Asunder and it works well.  So, despite the fact that I'm not
100% tickled since I'm a bit anal and like all things tied up in a neat
little box with a bow, I have audio CD's playing in kaffeine and I am
able to rip them using asunder.

However, I will keep this for future reference in case I ever need it!  :-)

Regards,

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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Colleen Beamer]

On 10/19/11 08:07, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 19.10.2011 01:09, schrieb Colleen Beamer:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to
>> resolve the issue.
>>
>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.  I've
>> tried with kscd and Kaffeine.  Haven't installed amarok yet.  I've
>> checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel.  In /dev cdrom is a
>> symlink to sr0.  Nothing I've read in anything that came up in my google
>> search helped.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Colleen
>>
> 1. Can you try something that is not related to KDE like VLC (might need
> USE=cdda)?
> 2. What use flags has media-libs/phonon enabled?
> 3. Which backend for phonon is activated (system settings -> multimedia)?
>
> Regards,
> Florian Philipp
>
cdda is one of my USE flags.
Phonon has gstreamer and xine enabled as USE flags.  No option for cdda
when I type "emerge -av phonon", but like I said, that is one of my USE
flags.
Phonon current backend is gstreamer.  Kaffeine works with this.  It is
only kscd that is not working.

Regards,

Colleen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Colleen Beamer]

On 10/19/11 10:25, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Wed, October 19, 2011 7:39 am, Colleen Beamer wrote:
>> Semi-solved.
>>
>> On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer
>>> <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.  I've
>>>> tried with kscd and Kaffeine.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When I try to play an audio CD in kaffeine, I get an alert box that
>>>> says:
>>>> Cannot find input plgin for MRL "cdda://"
>> I can now play an audio CD in kaffeine.  I have no idea what I did!  I
>> did add a couple of packages and because of this changed some use flags
>> and updated my system with --newuse, but that's all I did.
>>
>> However, I still cannot play a CD in kscd.
> Hi Colleen,
>
> I didn't find it in this thread yet, but I am wondering if you have the
> CD-drive connected to the soundcard or not.
>
> Some applications will "rip" and play the cdda-tracks directly from the
> CD. Others will simply tell the CD-drive to play an audio-cd and have the
> cd-drive do the decoding.
> In the latter case, the audio-signal goes over a little cable from the
> cd-drive to the soundcard.

I assume that it is connected because I could play an audio file (ogg)
from my hard drive.  Also, now I can play CD's using kaffeine, just not
kscd.  I can rip them using asunder.

Regards,

Colleen



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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Dale]

Colleen Beamer wrote:
> On 10/19/11 04:41, Andrey Moshbear wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 03:51, Mick<michaelkintzios@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> To listen to audio CDs you should *not* mount the CD.  Therefore the above
>>> entry is not required.
>>>
>>> Since you are trying to use KDE apps to play CDs you ought to check that you
>>> have installed:
>>>
>>>   kde-base/kdemultimedia-meta
>>>   kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves
>>>
>> If you're using a good chunk of kde, emerge kde-base/kde-meta. Makes
>> kde upgrades simpler, and less pollution in the world file.
> To be honest, I don't want "meta" anything, bur from what I understand,
> sets don't come into play until 4.7 and that isn't stable yet.  I didn't
> want to install unstable KDE.
>
> Regards,
>
> Colleen
>


Using kde-meta doesn't have to pull in anything unstable.  The reason 
for kde-meta is for those who want to install everything KDE and get it 
all in one command.  I use kde-meta here since KDE is my primary desktop 
and I wanted to get the whole she bag, pardon the pun.  lol

If you don't use unmask/keywords, then emerging kde-meta will just 
install the things you have not installed yet.  It could be that a 
package that is needed is not yet installed.  Then again, maybe 
something is muted.  ^_^  Maybe this will explain it better:

root@fireball / # eix kde-meta
[I] kde-base/kde-meta
      Available versions:  (4) 4.6.3 4.6.5 (~)4.7.1 (~)4.7.2{tbz2}
         {accessibility aqua kdeprefix nls oldpim sdk semantic-desktop}
      Installed versions:  4.7.2(4){tbz2}(03:44:51 AM 10/07/2011)(nls 
semantic-desktop -accessibility -aqua -oldpim -sdk)
      Homepage:            http://www.kde.org/
      Description:         KDE - merge this to pull in all split 
kde-base/* packages

root@fireball / #

That make sense?  Cents?  Whichever. lol

Ma'am.  No hat tonight.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Dale]

Colleen Beamer wrote:
> On 10/19/11 05:45, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> Colleen Beamer<colleen.beamer@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to
>>> resolve the issue.
>>>
>>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.  I've
>>> tried with kscd and Kaffeine.  Haven't installed amarok yet.  I've
>>> checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel.  In /dev cdrom is a
>>> symlink to sr0.  Nothing I've read in anything that came up in my google
>>> search helped.
>> If you have only one CD drive, the CD will play with:
>>
>> 	cdda2wav -e -B -N
> Thanks, but this isn't really necessary any longer.  The only thing that
> doesn't want to play an audio CD is kscd.  Kaffeine works fine.  Tried
> to install kaudiocreator to rip CD's, but it kept crashing on start so,
> I found Asunder and it works well.  So, despite the fact that I'm not
> 100% tickled since I'm a bit anal and like all things tied up in a neat
> little box with a bow, I have audio CD's playing in kaffeine and I am
> able to rip them using asunder.
>
> However, I will keep this for future reference in case I ever need it!  :-)
>
> Regards,
>

Have you tried a fresh KSCD config file yet?  I have noticed recently 
that when I upgrade KDE, at least one config file sort of burps on me 
and I have to give it a clean start.  Last time was Kpat.  I dunno.

I can't find one on here.  I guess I haven't used it for it to create 
one.  It's usually in /home/<user>/.kde4/share/config.  I'm not certain 
on the name tho.

Ma'am.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Sebastian Beßler]

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Am 19.10.2011 20:59, schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer:

> gstreamer never worked for me. I use phonon-xine and audio-cds play fine with 
> kscd and kaffeine. I checked phonon-vlc also and it works too.

I can second that, get all kinds of problems with gstreamer but
everything works perfect with phonon-vlc.

It is worth a try.

Greetings

Sebastian Beßler


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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Jonas de Buhr]

Am Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:27:20 -0400
schrieb Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>:

> On 10/19/11 10:25, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > On Wed, October 19, 2011 7:39 am, Colleen Beamer wrote:
> >> Semi-solved.
> >>
> >> On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer
> >>> <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Hi everyone,
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.
> >>>> I've tried with kscd and Kaffeine.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> When I try to play an audio CD in kaffeine, I get an alert box
> >>>> that says:
> >>>> Cannot find input plgin for MRL "cdda://"
> >> I can now play an audio CD in kaffeine.  I have no idea what I
> >> did!  I did add a couple of packages and because of this changed
> >> some use flags and updated my system with --newuse, but that's all
> >> I did.
> >>
> >> However, I still cannot play a CD in kscd.
> > Hi Colleen,
> >
> > I didn't find it in this thread yet, but I am wondering if you have
> > the CD-drive connected to the soundcard or not.
> >
> > Some applications will "rip" and play the cdda-tracks directly from
> > the CD. Others will simply tell the CD-drive to play an audio-cd
> > and have the cd-drive do the decoding.
> > In the latter case, the audio-signal goes over a little cable from
> > the cd-drive to the soundcard.
> 
> I assume that it is connected because I could play an audio file (ogg)
> from my hard drive.  Also, now I can play CD's using kaffeine, just
> not kscd.  I can rip them using asunder.

hi colleen,

that is not how it works, those are two very different methods of
playing audio. if the cable between the cdrom and the soundcard is
connected, you can play CDs directly from the drive with minimum
software interaction or "tell the cdrom to play the cd on the
soundcard". that has nothing to do with playing ogg from HD, the data
takes a totally different path.

i do not know if kscd does that, but as joost pointed out that would be
a good explanation why you can play CDs in kaffeine but not in kscd. 
check for the cable.

/jonas

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Colleen
> 
> 
> 

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Jonas de Buhr]

Am Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:06:33 -0400
schrieb Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>:

> On 10/19/11 03:51, Mick wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 Oct 2011 04:54:02 Colleen Beamer wrote:
> >> On 10/18/11 21:07, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Colleen Beamer
> >>> <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> <SNIP>
>[snip]
> >>>>
> >>>> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
> >
> > To listen to audio CDs you should *not* mount the CD. Therefore the
> > above entry is not required.
> Well, what can I say.  I followed the Gentoo Handbook.  :-)

no one said it's wrong to have that entry in the fstab. it just doesn't
have anything to do with cd playback.

> >
> > Since you are trying to use KDE apps to play CDs you ought to check
> that you
> > have installed:
> >
> > kde-base/kdemultimedia-meta
> > kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves
> 
> Yes, have both installed.  :-)
> 

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Jonas de Buhr]

Am Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:58:15 +0200
schrieb Jonas de Buhr <jonas.de.buhr@gmx.net>:

> Am Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:27:20 -0400
> schrieb Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>:
> 
> > On 10/19/11 10:25, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > > On Wed, October 19, 2011 7:39 am, Colleen Beamer wrote:
> > >> Semi-solved.
> > >>
> > >> On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > >>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer
> > >>> <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>> Hi everyone,
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.
> > >>>> I've tried with kscd and Kaffeine.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> When I try to play an audio CD in kaffeine, I get an alert box
> > >>>> that says:
> > >>>> Cannot find input plgin for MRL "cdda://"
> > >> I can now play an audio CD in kaffeine.  I have no idea what I
> > >> did!  I did add a couple of packages and because of this changed
> > >> some use flags and updated my system with --newuse, but that's
> > >> all I did.
> > >>
> > >> However, I still cannot play a CD in kscd.
> > > Hi Colleen,
> > >
> > > I didn't find it in this thread yet, but I am wondering if you
> > > have the CD-drive connected to the soundcard or not.
> > >
> > > Some applications will "rip" and play the cdda-tracks directly
> > > from the CD. Others will simply tell the CD-drive to play an
> > > audio-cd and have the cd-drive do the decoding.
> > > In the latter case, the audio-signal goes over a little cable from
> > > the cd-drive to the soundcard.
> > 
> > I assume that it is connected because I could play an audio file
> > (ogg) from my hard drive.  Also, now I can play CD's using
> > kaffeine, just not kscd.  I can rip them using asunder.
> 
> hi colleen,
> 
> that is not how it works, those are two very different methods of
> playing audio. if the cable between the cdrom and the soundcard is
> connected, you can play CDs directly from the drive with minimum
> software interaction or "tell the cdrom to play the cd on the
> soundcard". that has nothing to do with playing ogg from HD, the data
> takes a totally different path.
> 
> i do not know if kscd does that, but as joost pointed out that would
> be a good explanation why you can play CDs in kaffeine but not in
> kscd. check for the cable.

or tell kscd to use digital playback:

http://forums.opensuse.org/hardware/408961-kscd-wont-play-cds-sata-drive.html
> 
> /jonas
> 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Colleen
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:06:33 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote:

> > To listen to audio CDs you should *not* mount the CD. Therefore the
> > above entry is not required.  

> Well, what can I say.  I followed the Gentoo Handbook.  :-)

That's for data CDs, it shouldn't do any harm for audio discs. But you
use KDE, so you shouldn't have anything for any removable devices in
fstab. Let KDE's automounter take care of everything.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Joerg Schilling]

Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:

> > If you have only one CD drive, the CD will play with:
> >
> > 	cdda2wav -e -B -N
>
> Thanks, but this isn't really necessary any longer.  The only thing that
> doesn't want to play an audio CD is kscd.  Kaffeine works fine.  Tried

BTW: As libcdio has a license/lagality problem, I added some enhancements to 
cdda2wav (seen via the option -interactive) that is intended to be used as a 
replacement for libcdio via a library wrapper.

Using -interactive, you can do anything you could do with a GUI as the library 
libgstcdda2wav.so is intended to be used with gstreamer.


Jörg

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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Colleen Beamer
<colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/19/11 05:45, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to
>>> resolve the issue.
>>>
>>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's.  I've
>>> tried with kscd and Kaffeine.  Haven't installed amarok yet.  I've
>>> checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel.  In /dev cdrom is a
>>> symlink to sr0.  Nothing I've read in anything that came up in my google
>>> search helped.
>> If you have only one CD drive, the CD will play with:
>>
>>       cdda2wav -e -B -N
>
> Thanks, but this isn't really necessary any longer.  The only thing that
> doesn't want to play an audio CD is kscd.  Kaffeine works fine.  Tried
> to install kaudiocreator to rip CD's, but it kept crashing on start so,
> I found Asunder and it works well.  So, despite the fact that I'm not
> 100% tickled since I'm a bit anal and like all things tied up in a neat
> little box with a bow, I have audio CD's playing in kaffeine and I am
> able to rip them using asunder.
>
> However, I will keep this for future reference in case I ever need it!  :-)
>
> Regards,

If you get around to trying other ways later then consider not using a
GUI at all for ripping CDs. Here's what I do, thanks to Joerg years
ago. Obviously change parameters as you see fit. One caveat about this
command set is that it doesn't grab any hidden tracks.

Cheers,
Mark

cdda2wav dev=1000,1,0 -vall -B -Owav -paranoia -speed=6
cdrecord dev=1000,1,0 -eject
cdrecord dev=1000,1,0 -v -speed=6 -dao -useinfo -text -eject *.wav
rm audio*

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Joerg Schilling]

Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you get around to trying other ways later then consider not using a
> GUI at all for ripping CDs. Here's what I do, thanks to Joerg years
> ago. Obviously change parameters as you see fit. One caveat about this
> command set is that it doesn't grab any hidden tracks.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
> cdda2wav dev=1000,1,0 -vall -B -Owav -paranoia -speed=6
> cdrecord dev=1000,1,0 -eject
> cdrecord dev=1000,1,0 -v -speed=6 -dao -useinfo -text -eject *.wav
> rm audio*

BTW: since January 2010, there is "paraopts=proof" to tell cdda2wav to use the 
most pessimistic assumptions for paranoia options.

And a final note: cdparanoia typically reports less problems than cdda2wav 
because cdparanoia clears some error counters frequently while cdda2wav sums 
them all up within a single track. So seeing more "error reports" from cdda2wav 
does not mean lower quality.


Jörg

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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Colleen Beamer]

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Hi Guys,

You all must think I'm like a bear with a sore paw!  :-)

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Wednesday 19 Oct 2011 04:54:02 Colleen Beamer wrote:
> > On 10/18/11 21:07, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Colleen Beamer
> > > <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > <SNIP>
> > >
> > >>>> To listen to audio CDs you should *not* mount the CD.  Therefore the
> above
> entry is not required.
>
> Since you are trying to use KDE apps to play CDs you ought to check that
> you
> have installed:
>
>  kde-base/kdemultimedia-meta
>  kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves
>
Both of these are installed.  However, I really just wanted to bring one
last thing to everyone's attention .... just in case.

Like I said in one of my previous e-mails, I got kaffeine to play audio
CD's.  Not sure what I did although, as stated, I installed something where
I had to add a USE flag and then, did "--update --deep --newuse world".

Anyway, plugging away at some of the suggestions that were made, I checked
/home/colleen.kde4/config/ for all the rc files that should be there.  Every
program creates an rc file.  However, kscd has no kscdrc file even after it
is started up.  Is this a bug?

Regards,

Colleen


>
> HTH.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Colleen Beamer]

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P.S. to this message:

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Colleen Beamer
<colleen.beamer@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> You all must think I'm like a bear with a sore paw!  :-)
>
>  On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>   On Wednesday 19 Oct 2011 04:54:02 Colleen Beamer wrote:
>> > On 10/18/11 21:07, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Colleen Beamer
>> > > <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > <SNIP>
>> > >
>> > >>>> To listen to audio CDs you should *not* mount the CD.  Therefore
>> the above
>> entry is not required.
>>
>> Since you are trying to use KDE apps to play CDs you ought to check that
>> you
>> have installed:
>>
>>  kde-base/kdemultimedia-meta
>>  kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves
>>
> Both of these are installed.  However, I really just wanted to bring one
> last thing to everyone's attention .... just in case.
>
> Like I said in one of my previous e-mails, I got kaffeine to play audio
> CD's.  Not sure what I did although, as stated, I installed something where
> I had to add a USE flag and then, did "--update --deep --newuse world".
>
> Anyway, plugging away at some of the suggestions that were made, I checked
> /home/colleen.kde4/config/ for all the rc files that should be there.  Every
> program creates an rc file.  However, kscd has no kscdrc file even after it
> is started up.  Is this a bug?
>
> Regards,
>
> Colleen
>
>
>
P.S.  kscd will display the track listings on the CD, but will not play.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Michael Mol]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Colleen Beamer
<colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
> P.S. to this message:
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> You all must think I'm like a bear with a sore paw!  :-)
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>> Both of these are installed.  However, I really just wanted to bring one
>> last thing to everyone's attention .... just in case.
>>
>> Like I said in one of my previous e-mails, I got kaffeine to play audio
>> CD's.  Not sure what I did although, as stated, I installed something where
>> I had to add a USE flag and then, did "--update --deep --newuse world".
>>
>> Anyway, plugging away at some of the suggestions that were made, I checked
>> /home/colleen.kde4/config/ for all the rc files that should be there.  Every
>> program creates an rc file.  However, kscd has no kscdrc file even after it
>> is started up.  Is this a bug?
>>
>
> P.S.  kscd will display the track listings on the CD, but will not play.

Stupid question: Check alsamixer and kmix to ensure that none of the
playback sources are muted? It really sounds like it's using the
drive's analog output instead of CDDA.

You might also use euse to find the status of the 'cdda' USE flag and
which installed packages are affected by its presence or absence.

(Pretty sure I remember this being mentioned by someone before, but
still worth looking at again)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Dale]

Michael Mol wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Colleen Beamer
> <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> P.S. to this message:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Colleen Beamer<colleen.beamer@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> You all must think I'm like a bear with a sore paw!  :-)
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Mick<michaelkintzios@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Both of these are installed.  However, I really just wanted to bring one
>>> last thing to everyone's attention .... just in case.
>>>
>>> Like I said in one of my previous e-mails, I got kaffeine to play audio
>>> CD's.  Not sure what I did although, as stated, I installed something where
>>> I had to add a USE flag and then, did "--update --deep --newuse world".
>>>
>>> Anyway, plugging away at some of the suggestions that were made, I checked
>>> /home/colleen.kde4/config/ for all the rc files that should be there.  Every
>>> program creates an rc file.  However, kscd has no kscdrc file even after it
>>> is started up.  Is this a bug?
>>>
>> P.S.  kscd will display the track listings on the CD, but will not play.
> Stupid question: Check alsamixer and kmix to ensure that none of the
> playback sources are muted? It really sounds like it's using the
> drive's analog output instead of CDDA.
>
> You might also use euse to find the status of the 'cdda' USE flag and
> which installed packages are affected by its presence or absence.
>
> (Pretty sure I remember this being mentioned by someone before, but
> still worth looking at again)
>

I was going to try this on mine to see if I could be more helpful.  KSCD 
crashes before it even starts.  So, I'm useless I guess.

dale@fireball / $ kscd
KCrash: Application 'kscd' crashing...
KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit
sock_file=/home/dale/.kde4/socket-fireball/kdeinit4__0
unnamed app(12623): Communication problem with  "kscd" , it probably 
crashed.
Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message 
did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "
QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 11 and type 'Read', disabling...

I'm not worried about fixing it tho.  It's most likely something that 
needs to be rebuilt.  I did the obvious ones but will do a emerge -e 
world later when it gets cold.  Maybe that will work.  Just goes to show 
tho, when you think you got issues, someone comes along with a worse 
one.  At least yours opens Colleen.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Jonas de Buhr]

Am Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:43:09 -0400
schrieb Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>:

> >
> P.S.  kscd will display the track listings on the CD, but will not
> play.

again, please check for the audio cable going from cd-rom to soundcard
or have a look at the link i posted earlier.

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Michael Schreckenbauer]

Am Freitag, 21. Oktober 2011, 20:35:07 schrieb Jonas de Buhr:
> Am Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:43:09 -0400
> 
> schrieb Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>:
> > P.S.  kscd will display the track listings on the CD, but will not
> > play.
> 
> again, please check for the audio cable going from cd-rom to soundcard
> or have a look at the link i posted earlier.

FWIW, I don't have this cable and my kscd has no "extras->settings & 
behaviour", where I could switch "use direct digital playback" like mentioned 
in your link (has yours?), but it plays audio-cds just fine from my SATA-drive.

Best,
Michael

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Jonas de Buhr]

Am Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:24:52 +0200
schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@gmx.de>:

> Am Freitag, 21. Oktober 2011, 20:35:07 schrieb Jonas de Buhr:
> > Am Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:43:09 -0400
> > 
> > schrieb Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>:
> > > P.S.  kscd will display the track listings on the CD, but will not
> > > play.
> > 
> > again, please check for the audio cable going from cd-rom to
> > soundcard or have a look at the link i posted earlier.
> 
> FWIW, I don't have this cable and my kscd has no "extras->settings & 
> behaviour", where I could switch "use direct digital playback" like
> mentioned in your link (has yours?)

i just emerged it (i don't normally use CDs more than once for ripping,
can't see why anyone would) and it indeed has not.
maybe the option was moved to the backend?

>, but it plays audio-cds just fine
> from my SATA-drive.

well... its not a big revelation that this is possible ;)
as long as the functionality for direct playback (through the extra
cable) wasn't completely removed from kscd (possible, anyone interested
should read the changelogs) it's still a very reasonable explanation
for this problem since it's working in caffeine but not in a "simple"
application like kscd which is more likely to rely on builtin
functionality.

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Michael Schreckenbauer]

Am Freitag, 21. Oktober 2011, 22:01:06 schrieb Jonas de Buhr:
> Am Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:24:52 +0200
> 
> schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@gmx.de>:
> > Am Freitag, 21. Oktober 2011, 20:35:07 schrieb Jonas de Buhr:
> > > Am Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:43:09 -0400
> > > 
> > > schrieb Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>:
> > > > P.S.  kscd will display the track listings on the CD, but will
> > > > not
> > > > play.
> > > 
> > > again, please check for the audio cable going from cd-rom to
> > > soundcard or have a look at the link i posted earlier.
> > 
> > FWIW, I don't have this cable and my kscd has no "extras->settings &
> > behaviour", where I could switch "use direct digital playback" like
> > mentioned in your link (has yours?)
> 
> i just emerged it (i don't normally use CDs more than once for ripping,

I am old fashioned in this regard. I have ~500 LPs and some more CDs and 
listen to them on my ancient, but excellent, Onkyo-HiFi.
Of course my computer is connected to it, so I can listen to mp3s using this 
superb hardware too :)

> can't see why anyone would) and it indeed has not.
> maybe the option was moved to the backend?

Doesn't seem so. I looked really, really hard to find this setting anywhere, 
cause I remember there was one quite some time ago. Nothing, nowhere afaict.

> >, but it plays audio-cds just fine
> >
> > from my SATA-drive.
> 
> well... its not a big revelation that this is possible ;)
> as long as the functionality for direct playback (through the extra
> cable) wasn't completely removed from kscd (possible, anyone interested
> should read the changelogs) it's still a very reasonable explanation
> for this problem since it's working in caffeine but not in a "simple"
> application like kscd which is more likely to rely on builtin
> functionality.

I think, that this is gstreamer related. Colleen uses phonon-gstreamer, 
whereas I use phonon-xine, because I had only bad experiences with the 
gstreamer phonon-backend.

Best,
Michael

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Colleen Beamer]

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On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Colleen Beamer
> <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > P.S. to this message:
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Colleen Beamer <
> colleen.beamer@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Guys,
> >>
> >> You all must think I'm like a bear with a sore paw!  :-)
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >> Both of these are installed.  However, I really just wanted to bring one
> >> last thing to everyone's attention .... just in case.
> >>
> >> Like I said in one of my previous e-mails, I got kaffeine to play audio
> >> CD's.  Not sure what I did although, as stated, I installed something
> where
> >> I had to add a USE flag and then, did "--update --deep --newuse world".
> >>
> >> Anyway, plugging away at some of the suggestions that were made, I
> checked
> >> /home/colleen.kde4/config/ for all the rc files that should be there.
> Every
> >> program creates an rc file.  However, kscd has no kscdrc file even after
> it
> >> is started up.  Is this a bug?
> >>
> >
> > P.S.  kscd will display the track listings on the CD, but will not play.
>
> Stupid question: Check alsamixer and kmix to ensure that none of the
> playback sources are muted? It really sounds like it's using the
> drive's analog output instead of CDDA.
>

I'm not stupid.  I've checked that.  If alsamixer or kmix were muted, I
wouldn't be able to play and hear CD's in kaffeine, which I can.


You might also use euse to find the status of the 'cdda' USE flag and
which installed packages are affected by its presence or absence.

(Pretty sure I remember this being mentioned by someone before, but
still worth looking at again)

cdda is one of my GLOBAL use flags so, anything that needs it should have it
compiled in automatically.

The main part of my question was if it was a bug that kscd does not create a
kscdrc file when launched like every other kde application does.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Colleen Beamer]

This is solved.

The solution came from posting to KDE forums.

It was a configuration issue:

In System Settings, I had to select "Device Actions", "Play Audio CD
with KsCD, select Edit, select "the devices property Available Content
must equal Audio, choose "Property Match"for the parameter type,
"Optical Disk" for the Device type, "Available Content" for the Value
name and Equals Audio.

That did the trick!

Regards,

Colleen
 
On 10/20/11 05:32, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> If you have only one CD drive, the CD will play with:
>>>
>>> 	cdda2wav -e -B -N
>> Thanks, but this isn't really necessary any longer.  The only thing that
>> doesn't want to play an audio CD is kscd.  Kaffeine works fine.  Tried
> BTW: As libcdio has a license/lagality problem, I added some enhancements to 
> cdda2wav (seen via the option -interactive) that is intended to be used as a 
> replacement for libcdio via a library wrapper.
>
> Using -interactive, you can do anything you could do with a GUI as the library 
> libgstcdda2wav.so is intended to be used with gstreamer.
>
>
> Jörg
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Mick]

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On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 01:19:15 Colleen Beamer wrote:
> This is solved.
> 
> The solution came from posting to KDE forums.
> 
> It was a configuration issue:
> 
> In System Settings, I had to select "Device Actions", "Play Audio CD
> with KsCD, select Edit, select "the devices property Available Content
> must equal Audio, choose "Property Match"for the parameter type,
> "Optical Disk" for the Device type, "Available Content" for the Value
> name and Equals Audio.
> 
> That did the trick!

Thanks for letting us know!  I recall having problems in the past with kscd on 
a KDE desktop and I couldn't remember if I ever fixed it.  Now I know how.  ;-)

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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Dale]

Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 01:19:15 Colleen Beamer wrote:
>> This is solved.
>>
>> The solution came from posting to KDE forums.
>>
>> It was a configuration issue:
>>
>> In System Settings, I had to select "Device Actions", "Play Audio CD
>> with KsCD, select Edit, select "the devices property Available Content
>> must equal Audio, choose "Property Match"for the parameter type,
>> "Optical Disk" for the Device type, "Available Content" for the Value
>> name and Equals Audio.
>>
>> That did the trick!
> Thanks for letting us know!  I recall having problems in the past with kscd on
> a KDE desktop and I couldn't remember if I ever fixed it.  Now I know how.  ;-)
>

I finally got mine to open too.  I did a emerge -e world since I could 
tell it was just some dep that got missed.  Anyway, is it just me or is 
KSCD just got plain ugly?

I went back to Smplayer.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Colleen Beamer]

On 10/22/11 04:14, Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
>> On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 01:19:15 Colleen Beamer wrote:
>>> This is solved.
>>>
>>> The solution came from posting to KDE forums.
>>>
>>> It was a configuration issue:
>>>
>>> In System Settings, I had to select "Device Actions", "Play Audio CD
>>> with KsCD, select Edit, select "the devices property Available Content
>>> must equal Audio, choose "Property Match"for the parameter type,
>>> "Optical Disk" for the Device type, "Available Content" for the Value
>>> name and Equals Audio.
>>>
>>> That did the trick!
>> Thanks for letting us know!  I recall having problems in the past
>> with kscd on
>> a KDE desktop and I couldn't remember if I ever fixed it.  Now I know
>> how.  ;-)
>>
>
> I finally got mine to open too.  I did a emerge -e world since I could
> tell it was just some dep that got missed.  Anyway, is it just me or
> is KSCD just got plain ugly?

Yeah, used to be much easier to use.  Like I said in a previous post,
I'm a bit anal and this bugged me 'cause I've always had it working
before.  For me, kaffeine works fine and I've discovered that I like it
better than kscd anyway.

Colleen
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Dale]

Colleen Beamer wrote:
> On 10/22/11 04:14, Dale wrote:
>> Mick wrote:
>>> On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 01:19:15 Colleen Beamer wrote:
>>>> This is solved.
>>>>
>>>> The solution came from posting to KDE forums.
>>>>
>>>> It was a configuration issue:
>>>>
>>>> In System Settings, I had to select "Device Actions", "Play Audio CD
>>>> with KsCD, select Edit, select "the devices property Available Content
>>>> must equal Audio, choose "Property Match"for the parameter type,
>>>> "Optical Disk" for the Device type, "Available Content" for the Value
>>>> name and Equals Audio.
>>>>
>>>> That did the trick!
>>> Thanks for letting us know!  I recall having problems in the past
>>> with kscd on
>>> a KDE desktop and I couldn't remember if I ever fixed it.  Now I know
>>> how.  ;-)
>>>
>> I finally got mine to open too.  I did a emerge -e world since I could
>> tell it was just some dep that got missed.  Anyway, is it just me or
>> is KSCD just got plain ugly?
> Yeah, used to be much easier to use.  Like I said in a previous post,
> I'm a bit anal and this bugged me 'cause I've always had it working
> before.  For me, kaffeine works fine and I've discovered that I like it
> better than kscd anyway.
>
> Colleen

I use smplayer for mine.  It's nothing fancy but it plays music.  I 
clicked on the pop up and tried to play a CD with amarock, (sp?), and I 
never could get it to even play the CD.  It wanted to build some 
database or something. I'm in the mood to get rid of that thing.

I'll check into this Kaffeine thing tho.

Ma'am. < tip hats >  Yea, I been in the garden so I'm wearing a hat 
today.  Deer got into my greens.  :-@  Electric fence or sling lead.  
They better pick the first one.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Andrey Moshbear]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 15:28, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Colleen Beamer wrote:
>>
>> On 10/22/11 04:14, Dale wrote:
>>>
>>> Mick wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 01:19:15 Colleen Beamer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> This is solved.
>>>>>
>>>>> The solution came from posting to KDE forums.
>>>>>
>>>>> It was a configuration issue:
>>>>>
>>>>> In System Settings, I had to select "Device Actions", "Play Audio CD
>>>>> with KsCD, select Edit, select "the devices property Available Content
>>>>> must equal Audio, choose "Property Match"for the parameter type,
>>>>> "Optical Disk" for the Device type, "Available Content" for the Value
>>>>> name and Equals Audio.
>>>>>
>>>>> That did the trick!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for letting us know!  I recall having problems in the past
>>>> with kscd on
>>>> a KDE desktop and I couldn't remember if I ever fixed it.  Now I know
>>>> how.  ;-)
>>>>
>>> I finally got mine to open too.  I did a emerge -e world since I could
>>> tell it was just some dep that got missed.  Anyway, is it just me or
>>> is KSCD just got plain ugly?
>>
>> Yeah, used to be much easier to use.  Like I said in a previous post,
>> I'm a bit anal and this bugged me 'cause I've always had it working
>> before.  For me, kaffeine works fine and I've discovered that I like it
>> better than kscd anyway.
>>
>> Colleen
>
> I use smplayer for mine.  It's nothing fancy but it plays music.  I clicked
> on the pop up and tried to play a CD with amarock, (sp?), and I never could
> get it to even play the CD.  It wanted to build some database or something.
> I'm in the mood to get rid of that thing.
>
> I'll check into this Kaffeine thing tho.
>

amarok

And why not just use mplayer? We're gentoo users, so it's expected
that at least one xterm is active. So just ^+T (for +=shift) and run
mplayer.

Also, amarok segfaults on my box on startup. Couldn't be arsed to look
at the backtrace.

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Colleen Beamer]

On 10/22/11 15:28, Dale wrote:
> Colleen Beamer wrote:
>> On 10/22/11 04:14, Dale wrote:
>>> Mick wrote:
>>>> On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 01:19:15 Colleen Beamer wrote:
>>>>> This is solved.
>>>>>
>>>>> The solution came from posting to KDE forums.
>>>>>
>>>>> It was a configuration issue:
>>>>>
>>>>> In System Settings, I had to select "Device Actions", "Play Audio CD
>>>>> with KsCD, select Edit, select "the devices property Available
>>>>> Content
>>>>> must equal Audio, choose "Property Match"for the parameter type,
>>>>> "Optical Disk" for the Device type, "Available Content" for the Value
>>>>> name and Equals Audio.
>>>>>
>>>>> That did the trick!
>>>> Thanks for letting us know!  I recall having problems in the past
>>>> with kscd on
>>>> a KDE desktop and I couldn't remember if I ever fixed it.  Now I know
>>>> how.  ;-)
>>>>
>>> I finally got mine to open too.  I did a emerge -e world since I could
>>> tell it was just some dep that got missed.  Anyway, is it just me or
>>> is KSCD just got plain ugly?
>> Yeah, used to be much easier to use.  Like I said in a previous post,
>> I'm a bit anal and this bugged me 'cause I've always had it working
>> before.  For me, kaffeine works fine and I've discovered that I like it
>> better than kscd anyway.
>>
>> Colleen
>
> I use smplayer for mine.  It's nothing fancy but it plays music.  I
> clicked on the pop up and tried to play a CD with amarock, (sp?), and
> I never could get it to even play the CD.  It wanted to build some
> database or something. I'm in the mood to get rid of that thing.
>
I use amarok, but not for playing CD's.  I use it as a jukebox ... yes,
I know KDE offers juk, but I like amarok better.  Amarok is great for
that purpose.

Be kind to those deers, Dale.  It's getting close to winter and they're
hungry!  :-)

Colleen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Dale]

Colleen Beamer wrote:
> I use amarok, but not for playing CD's.  I use it as a jukebox ... yes,
> I know KDE offers juk, but I like amarok better.  Amarok is great for
> that purpose.
>
> Be kind to those deers, Dale.  It's getting close to winter and they're
> hungry!  :-)
>
> Colleen
>

I guess if I had a bunch of music then I would see the need but I only 
have a few CDs.  When they started suing Grandma and little kids, I 
stopped buying and canceled my membership.  I'm thinking about starting 
again tho.  Maybe.  Youtube works pretty well tho.

If those deer ain't careful, they will be the ones getting eat.  I like 
cows, pigs and chickens but deer will fit in the skillet too.  :/

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Dale]

Andrey Moshbear wrote:
> amarok And why not just use mplayer? We're gentoo users, so it's 
> expected that at least one xterm is active. So just ^+T (for +=shift) 
> and run mplayer. Also, amarok segfaults on my box on startup. Couldn't 
> be arsed to look at the backtrace. 

I guess it is just a personal preference.  I tried Kmplayer but didn't 
like it much and was having "issues" with it so I tried smplayer and it 
has yet to fail me.  It works so sort of tend to stick with what works 
for me.  I sort of like GUI stuff when possible.  Point and click works. 
lol

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Dale]

Dale wrote:
>
> I use smplayer for mine.  It's nothing fancy but it plays music.  I 
> clicked on the pop up and tried to play a CD with amarock, (sp?), and 
> I never could get it to even play the CD.  It wanted to build some 
> database or something. I'm in the mood to get rid of that thing.
>
> I'll check into this Kaffeine thing tho.
>
> Ma'am. < tip hats >  Yea, I been in the garden so I'm wearing a hat 
> today.  Deer got into my greens.  :-@  Electric fence or sling lead.  
> They better pick the first one.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>

I installed Kaffeine.  I'm not a coffee drinker but it is pretty nice.  
There are some things I like about Smplayer over Kaffeine.  I'll keep it 
around tho.  ;-)

Old guys tries something new.  And they say a old dog can't learn new 
tricks.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Pandu Poluan]

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On Oct 27, 2011 3:00 PM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Old guys tries something new.  And they say a old dog can't learn new
tricks.  lol
>

Well, old dogs *can* learn new tricks... but they (the old dogs) think,
"What for?" They're already entrenched and tenured, no motivation...

Manipulative beasts... but I love them nevertheless :-)

Rgds,

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Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Colleen Beamer]

On 10/27/11 03:57, Dale wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>>
>> I use smplayer for mine.  It's nothing fancy but it plays music.  I
>> clicked on the pop up and tried to play a CD with amarock, (sp?), and
>> I never could get it to even play the CD.  It wanted to build some
>> database or something. I'm in the mood to get rid of that thing.
>>
>> I'll check into this Kaffeine thing tho.
>>
>> Ma'am. < tip hats >  Yea, I been in the garden so I'm wearing a hat
>> today.  Deer got into my greens.  :-@  Electric fence or sling lead. 
>> They better pick the first one.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
>
> I installed Kaffeine.  I'm not a coffee drinker but it is pretty
> nice.  There are some things I like about Smplayer over Kaffeine. 
> I'll keep it around tho.  ;-)
>
> Old guys tries something new.  And they say a old dog can't learn new
> tricks.  lol
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)

They say, "turnabout is fair play".  You tried mine, maybe I should try
yours (smplayer).  :-)

Colleen

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