Amarok 'Could not read AudioCD'

Earl Parker II · 04-13-2007, 12:05 AM

I'm having an interesting problem with Amarok on a Slackware 11.0 box. I can login as root, start KDE, open Amarok, click on Engage/Play Audio CD and it plays perfectly. However, when I do the same thing logged in as an ordinary user I get the message 'Could not read AudioCD'. I did an extensive search of the forums before posting and couldn't find any entry that addressed this specific problem. If anyone has any suggestions I'd certainly appreciate them.

GrapefruiTgirl · 04-13-2007, 09:18 AM

Make sure your USER account is a member of the group to which the CDROM drive belongs.
If necessary, make sure the access permissions to the CDROM's device node/symlinks in /dev is such that USERs can access it.
It sounds like basically a permissions issue.

Earl Parker II · 04-13-2007, 11:16 AM

Thank you very much! Added the user to the 'disk' group and Sheryl Crow is sounding great.