[SOLVED] Can't mount a CD drive

ferrari · 09-01-2021, 07:21 PM

BTW, when you first insert a CD in the optical drive, does the device appear in the KDE device notifier?

Right-click on the device icon in the system tray then "Device notifier settings". Under General you can enable "Show popup when new device is plugged in".

alex4buba · 09-01-2021, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by ferrari

The list of files there won't change. I was really just asking if dragon player started automatically, but from your post I can tell that at least it can play the audio CD when requested manually.

I don't like automatic things, at least not in this case.
As you mentioned several times during our exchange, I "Expect" that when inserting a new USB device, there will be an alert, giving me some options - who says I want to play it? In my case, I just want to copy the tracks from the CD to my local machine - this task seems to be painfully long and convoluted....

I understand that a media CD has no actual files, I just wonder - how is Windows OS smarter to just open file manager and let me copy the tracks, with a long wait for "Loading" to finish...

Cheers
Alex

ferrari · 09-01-2021, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by alex4buba

I don't like automatic things, at least not in this case.

Ok, then the media player is working as expected.

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As you mentioned several times during our exchange, I "Expect" that when inserting a new USB device, there will be an alert, giving me some options - who says I want to play it? In my case, I just want to copy the tracks from the CD to my local machine - this task seems to be painfully long and convoluted....

Yes, that is the job of the device notifier (Disks and Devices). Did you check the configuration yet as already explained?

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I understand that a media CD has no actual files, I just wonder - how is Windows OS smarter to just open file manager and let me copy the tracks, with a long wait for "Loading" to finish...

I'm not sure about what you did here. Usually as simple as accessing CD using "audiocd:/" in the Dolphin (or Konqueror) location bar. The tracks should be visible with virtual folders to copy tracks as ogg, wav or mp3. To convert a particular track for copying should be reasonably quick.

Anyway, I've gone about as far as I can here with you on this. Feel free to discuss in the KDE or Kubuntu forums as I've already suggested.

alex4buba · 09-01-2021, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by ferrari

Ok, then the media player is working as expected.

Yes, that is the job of the device notifier (Disks and Devices). Did you check the configuration yet as already explained?

I'm not sure about what you did here. Usually as simple as accessing CD using "audiocd:/" in the Dolphin (or Konqueror) location bar. The tracks should be visible with virtual folders to copy tracks as ogg, wav or mp3. To convert a particular track for copying should be reasonably quick.

Anyway, I've gone about as far as I can here with you on this. Feel free to discuss in the KDE or Kubuntu forums as I've already suggested.

Once again, many thanks

Neither of those other forums is as responsive and helpful as is my experience here.

Cheers
Alex