Whenever I try to use a program to play Music CD's it doesn't play. Can someone give me a reason, and how to resolve this. Or do you know of a good program?

I was using the built-in CD player in Gnome, but since I have switched to Fluxbox I use workbone. It is a good program with a very simple interface (you use the number pad to control the music) that runs from the command line. I'm not sure if it is included in other distributions, but it is on Slackware 10 (CD1 I think). I can't remember which folder though. What problems are you having? Does the CD look like it is playing but you have no sound or does the program not recognise that you have a CD in the drive? Can you be more specific?

When I try to mount the cd, I get this...

sh-2.05b$ mount /mnt/cdrom/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too many mounted file systems.
sh-2.05b$

And yes I do have workbone.

And yes I did a chmod 666 /dev/cdrom/ (and 777, and a+x)

you can't mount audio CD's since they don't have a valid filesystem, you need to point your cd player app to the right drive, for example on my system it's /dev/cdrom or /dev/hdc. Also make sure that you have the right permissions to access the disk drive.

what happens when you try this:

workbone -p1 -d /dev/cdrom

Does your CD-ROM activity light come on? Any errors?

CD Rom light activity, and I can't run it as a normal user, it says run chmod 666 /dev/cdrom for user previlages, even though I changed /etc/fstab.

It sounds like the CD is playing, you just have no sound. Try this (as root)

# alsaconf

It should get your sound card setup and then run alsamixer or rexima to set the volume levels for everything.

As for why you can't run workbone as a normal user, I don't really know. What error did you get when you tried it?

I have the same problem, but I use KDE, and prefer not to enter the terminal. Any suggestions?

HUH,..................why not?? Did Mandrake disable it.............LOL

No, its easy to get into the terminal and I know how, it's just I prefer not to. It makes me uncomfortable and it isn't easy.

Well, my sound has been working, and I did alsaconf again, it works. And workbone says...

as root plz do chmod 666 /dev/cdrom/ to give your self access to cdrom.

Hmmm.... *thinking hard* I tried gnome just recently, and its the only desktop to find the cd, but, its still doesn't play it, tho theres cdrom activity. I did, however, put my headphones in the cdrom sound port. But to no avail :[.

You know what! I think its because I didn't put that line in from my cdrom to that little AUX port on my motherboard. Could that be the problem?

Definately! Connecting your CD-ROM to the AUX port (or any of the sound input ports) on your motherboard should fix it. I'm not sure what to do with the workbone problem, but if you use Gnome CD Player and it works, don't worry about it.

Damnit. Now I got to find one of those things.