xmms won't play CDs

loro · 06-21-2006, 06:02 PM

I'm trying to play an audio CD with xmms, but I can't get it to work. First I tried mounting it -- though I discovered the folly in that fairly quickly. For some reason, though, xmms can't access the drive.

I got into the XMMS Preferences, and tried to configure the audio CD plugin. I had it check the drive, and an error message popped up immediately saying:

Failed to open device /dev/hda
Error: Permission Denied

So apparently the first problem I need to deal with is permissions. So -- how would I go about giving xmms permission to mount/read/whatever it needs to do to play an audio CD?

Almost forgot -- I'm running Slackware 10.2, XFCE as a window manager, and alsa is working fine for all other sound -- xmms plays mp3s and oggs fine.

kencaz · 06-21-2006, 06:13 PM

Well, first off /dev/hda is the hard drive not the CD... If you only have one CD drive try in the plugin configuration:

Under Device:

/dev/hdc

Under Directory (use the mount point) such as:

/mnt/cdrom/

you get the idea...

Oh! almost forgot... To play the CD's use:

xmms /mnt/cdrom

Good Luck

KC

loro · 06-21-2006, 06:29 PM

The reason it's trying /dev/hda is because /dev/cdrom didn't work (same error message), and my DVD-RW/CD-RW is plugged in as the primary master IDE. The hard disk that I'm running my system on is hdc, and the disk I have all of my data on is hdd. I can play the disk through my system's speakers when I hit play on the drive (I did remember to plug in the sound wire, thankfully), but I'd like to use xmms to go through the disk at random.

entering a command like "xmms /mnt/cdrom", "xmms /dev/cdrom", or "xmms /dev/hda" yields nothing; xmms opens with a dialogue asking what files I want it to play, listing an empty directory with /mnt/cdrom and the contents of the /dev folder otherwise

kencaz · 06-21-2006, 09:10 PM

/mnt/cdrom may or may not be your mount point... you need to check /etc/fstab for the specific point for /dev/hdd/ This is where you say the data is located right?...

then try adding as device in xmms Audio Plugin:

/dev/hdd

and for Directory:

/mnt/? <--- whatever your fstab points to for /dev/hdd/

KC

loro · 06-23-2006, 12:57 PM

/etc/fstab reads:

Code:

/dev/hdc2        swap             swap        defaults         0  0    
/dev/hdc1        /                ext2        defaults         1  1
/dev/hdd1        /mnt/hdd1        vfat        defaults         1  0
/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       auto        noauto,owner,ro  0  0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner     0  0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mod=620    0  0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0  0

when mounting a data CD or DVD,

Code:

mount /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom

works fine -- I know that "hda" technically means the first hard disk, but it works equally well with any drive plugged into an IDE socket. /dev/cdrom works as well, I just find it easier to remember it's /dev/hda. /dev/hdd is a hard disk, just a particularly large one I use to hold naught but data -- text files, school work, ripped music, etc.

/dev/hdd1 registers as vfat with every operating system I've tried to use it under, but when I tried to do a dual-boot install of windows it read as corrupted. As rightly it should, because I used qtparted to reformat and partition it six months ago into ext3. I have no idea why it still registers as vfat, but so long as it works I don't have a problem with it.

thanks for your advice thus far, and any more is equally appreciated