Everything works except CD Audio

Liff · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 111

All my audio is working except CD Audio, it seems that my machine doesn't even recognise that the disk is in the drive. Grip even tells me that there is no disk, there's nothing actually wrong with the drive, pressing the play button on the machine playes the CD through my normal speakers, but none of the software I've tried has been able to even read the disk. Any ideas?
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Xinos · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 2:22 am Post subject: My two cents

I am not sure but are you not supposed to have a cable that runs from the cd player to the sound card to auto play music cd's. I am not sure where that popped into my mind from but maybe it will help if I am mistaken someone please straighten me out. I guess this would not apply if it is integrated sound. Hope this helps. If you mount the cd you can see the music files on there?
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Liff · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 111

my soundcard is a SBLive! value, (my cd drive is a vanilla 56x). I'm assuming from the fact that pressing play on the drive (there are two buttons on the cd drive, play/fwd and stop/eject) and having audio coming through my normal speakers means that either the wire is connected properly or it's not necessary (I'm too lazy to drag my case out of its alcove and open it up now to check). I've looked around in this forum and while I did see some problesm wiht CD Audio not working, none of the fixes worked for me.
I cannot mount an audio CD (it gives me a bad FS type message), if it makes any difference I'm using Gentoo 1.4_RC1
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

The missing cable from the CD to the sound card is the most likely culprit. This has been asked a few times. Apparently, there is some utility that will play audio via the IDE cable. Naturally, with less quality.
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Liff · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 111

I've dealt with a lacking audio cable in the past; and in my experience it says that it's playing and no sound comes out. In my situation currently, it's not even recognising that the disk is in the drive.
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Xinos · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 1:23 pm Post subject: Why can't you mount cd

It sounds a little strange that you cannot mount the audio cd. I would look and see if maybe this might be the problem. As far as I know you mount audio cd as a normal cd and you can see the tracks if you can't do this then that is a problem. You might try to look at the problem that way.
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Liff · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 111

according to this thread
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=13299&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=mount
you cannont mount audio CDs since they have no file system, there are mentions around the web of kernel modules and such that could do this but I don't believe that's what I'm looking for. I was using Mandrake 8.1 up until a little while ago and it had no trouble reading audio disks without mounting them. At the moment, xmms and grip aren't even going as far as to show me a playlist (With or without CDDB). the audio CD browser in konqueror gives me an error message that it "could not read /", and KsCD gives me a segfault eror the second it loads (but only if there's an audio CD in the drive).
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Malakin · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 5:36 pm Post subject:

Liff · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 111

I just tried it, depending on how I access the disk it puts "unknown/audioCD" or "no CD in /dev/cdrom" in the playlist and doesn nothing.
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Can you mount non-music CDs OK?
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Liff · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 111

Yep, without a hitch.
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Does your user belong to the cdrom and cdrw groups?
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Liff · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 111

I'm doing this as root
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Liff · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 111

*bump* (I'm only doing this once)
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dufnutz · Apprentice Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 209

I was having this problem up until 2 minutes ago, i add my user to these three groups (cdrom, cdecorder, cdrw) im pretty sure cdrom is the only one thats acutally needed, but i have a burner so i did the others too, so as i did this grip worked for me, give it a try

rac · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 8:19 pm Post subject:

Have you tried several different audio CDs? I have some audio CDs that consistently refuse to play in some of my CD-ROM drives, even though they work perfectly well in others.
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Liff · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 111

I've tried it with two seperate CDs, both with the same result, I know for a fact that at least one of them (the LoTR soundtrack) should work perfectly, I've ripped it in the past on this very computer when I had mandrake.
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