How do I read and rip a music cd? Google results taught me that media disks aren't "mounted" but rather work via the software to use them with so I d/loaded ripperX to do this work for me which complains the following error:

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Error Code 14:
Make sure an audio disk is in the drive and that you are either running ripperX as root or cdparanoia is setuid root.
error: cdparanoia monplains:

"/dev/cdrom exists but isn't accessible by default"
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I would like to be able to use this in all user modes not just root btw.

And while we're at it anyone know of a better program to use for ripping/encoding in KDE3 so that I can encode as .ogg? ripperX only does .wave or mp3 / and or a .wave to .ogg program.

here's my /etc/fstab file if this helps: (i added the /dev/cdrom part to see if that would fix this problem but it didn't)

/dev/hda4 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda2 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,rw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user,rw 0 0
/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto noauto,user,rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick auto noauto,user,rw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0

thanks!

Rob

Well, you need to chmod 666 your /dev/hdX where X is the cdrom device, then link it to /dev/cdrom (ln -s /dev/hdX /dev/cdrom) and you need to be root to rip CDs, or chmod cdparanoia to be setuid root, which isn't the best of ideas since it can pose security risks.
Although i never used it, i heard grip was a good ripper/encoder, or you can simply stay old school and do everything on the command line with cdparanoia, lame, BladeENC and the other myraid of encoding programs.
HTH
-NSKL

okies, nothing's working same error.

$chmod 666 /dev/hdc (cdrw drive is secondary master)
$ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
$chmod 777 /usr/bin/cdparanoia

ripperX still complains with the same error as origin post and other programs such as KsCD don't detect any music cd's or work etc...

why oh why does Lycoris have to drag their feet so long on their kde upgrade? if not for that fact (coupled with the fact that compiling anything right on it is like pulling molars plus its sucky way of storing their kernel sources makes it so recompiling it breaks the entire thing) it would be a perfect Desktop/LX.

thought I had everything perfect last night after I had resolved my Sony Clie problems but I hadn't anticipated that useing cd music of all things would be such a freaking nightmare.

If the CD drive is a CDRW unit and it is controlled by generic SCSI drivers then try using /dev/scd0 instead of /dev/hdc. Because CD Audio media is not mountable media, the fstab doesn't matter. But if the /dev/cdrom device is a proper link then it can used to mount iso9660 media.

Also, I believe that /dev/sr0 and /dev/scd0 are equivalent.

aye it is /dev/sr0 cdrw problem is now I think I have a kernel-module issue going on due to errors i'm getting when i use "cdrecord -scanbus"

really don't know what I screwed up with this reinstall because I had cdrecord at least working and reporting properly when this was all just on the 10 gig partition.

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ok I did rm /dev/cdrom then

chmod 666 /dev/sr0
ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom

same errors as originally reported though.

the fact that cdrecord -scanbus is giving me errors too tells me I have something really messed up though.

Rob

FOUND IT!!! took a look at my kernel again and the one flag I forgot to turn "ON" (wasn't even moduled) was "SCSI generic support".

flagged it on, now gonna set my /etc/inittab back to 3, recompile kernel and try it!

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that fixed it! can play music in all users, can rip and cdburn in root mode. (would like to be able to in user mode but not a big deal)

thanks for your help all!!! must sleep now my pillow calls my name heh

Rob

To rip and burn CDs in user mode you can either set SUID root bit on cdparanoia and programs you use for burning, or create a special group, and add the useres to that group, then give it permissions over all the necessary files and programs. The first solution can pose security risks, the second can be a pain to setup, so if it's not important you might want to stay how you are.
HTH
-NSKL