Audio cd doesn't work in any player

Bratmon · 09-20-2011, 06:00 PM

Hi, I use Arch linux. My issue is that when I put in an audio cd, it doesn't work in any player. The file /dev/sr0 exists and data cds work fine. I am in the optical group. mplayer fails with:

Code:

$mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/sr0 cdda://
MPlayer SVN-r34007-4.6.1 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
163 audio & 363 video codecs
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing cdda://.
Can't open disc.
Failed to open cdda://.


Exiting... (End of file)

cdcd fails with

Code:

$cdcd
cdcd 0.6.6
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 Tony Arcieri.
Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003 Fabrice Bauzac.
cdcd is free software, covered by the GNU General Public Licence, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it
under certain conditions.  There is absolutely no warranty for cdcd.  See the file COPYING for details.
Using libcdaudio 0.99.12.
Enter ? for help.
cdcd> play
No disc in drive
cdcd>

I know the cd works, as I can play it in Windows. Any hints?

zer0signal · 09-20-2011, 06:22 PM

did you try mounting the CD first?

mount /dev/WhateverCD-Device /mnt/cdrom

then try reading/playing?

Bratmon · 09-20-2011, 07:40 PM

It is an audio CD. It does not contain a filesystem and cannot be mounted.

corp769 · 09-20-2011, 07:58 PM

Technically, you can mount audio cd's - http://users.elis.ugent.be/~mronsse/cdfs/
And to correct the last post, audio CD's DO have filesystems, however, they are on the CD itself; The CDDA format is used to read from the internal filesystem on the CD.

To the OP: Can you try the following and let us know what happens?

Code:

mplayer cdda://

Cheers,

Josh