Can't play audio CD in latest Ubunu

rayandrews · 09-09-2010, 11:40 AM

All,

K, here's a hardware problem (I think). When I pop an audio CD into my external USB DVD drive, the GUI finds it no problem, but if I pop it into my old internal CD drive, it is not found, however a data disk in the internal drive is found without trouble. Places>Computer> shows "CD drive" and "CD/DVD drive", however I have two old internal CD's, not just one.

What gives?

yooy · 09-09-2010, 12:05 PM

I guess you mean that it worked before upgrading.

There is chance of problem with "sudo", you can always mount drive manualy by issuing command

Quote:

sudo mount ...

rayandrews · 09-09-2010, 12:32 PM

yooy,

I have all three devices installed at the same time, two old CD drives on the ribbon cable (sorry, can't remember the formal name of that, but same type of cable as IDE drives), and a newer DVD drive on USB port. It seems to me that if Ubuntu can see a data disk in the older drives then it's mounted, but why no audio CD?
Note XP has no trouble with the disc or the drive.

As to mounting, what's the handle of the drive? Sorry, I don't know much about this yet, only 'hdda'.

rayandrews · 09-09-2010, 12:45 PM

...
' wodim --devices' reports:

/dev/scd0
/dev/scd1
/dev/scd2

... with each line reporting the correct name of the drives
so, they are 'all there' but only the last one will play an audio CD. Seems very strange

yooy · 09-09-2010, 03:11 PM

only audio cd won't mount? data would?
Probably you didn't enter original cd, try with vlc or wine.

rayandrews · 09-09-2010, 07:35 PM

Yooy,

That's it! I don't understand tho, I have:

'dev/scd[0-2]' but they didn't work, 'dev/sr0' turns out to be what
VLC wants to see to find my old CD drive. How is it a 'sr' not a 'scd' ?? Same hardware but different ... something?

rayandrews · 09-09-2010, 07:37 PM

... and there's still the fact that the DVD device shows up in 'Computer' whereas the old CD drive does not show up. I expect there's some configuration option or other for that.