I've got a bit of a weird problem where ubuntu doesn't seem to recognise audio cds at all. The drive seems to work otherwise as i just watched a dvd, but when i put an audio cd in (I've tried several) then i can't mount the drive (message returned is: mount: No medium found). Also i've noticed that list_cddrives incorrectly reports the device as 'open' when an audio cd is in there and the drive bay is shut (likewise if the drive is empty), but reports correctly when open or has a dvd in there.

Any advice would be appreciated!


zzz@zzz:~$ /usr/lib/nautilus-cd-burner/list_cddrives
Drive:
name: DVD RW 8XMax
device: /dev/scd0
door: open
type: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, CD, DVD
is mounted: FALSE
max read speed: 11080 KiB/s (CD 73.8x, DVD 8.1x)
max write speed: 11080 KiB/s (CD 73.8x, DVD 8.1x)
write speeds: 11080 KiB/s (CD 73.8x, DVD 8.1x)
5540 KiB/s (CD 36.9x, DVD 4.0x)
3324 KiB/s (CD 22.1x, DVD 2.4x)

Media:
label: ''
type: Couldn't open media
is writable: FALSE
is appendable: FALSE
capacity: Could not be determined
size: Could not be determined

You generally can't mount audio CDs. To use them try the following:

mplayer -ao alsa cdda://

xmms /dev/cdrom

cdda2wav --max --channels 2 --stereo --bulk -t 1+14 -O wav PREFIX_TRACK
(this extract WAV files from tracks on the audio CD to do whatever with locally)

And various other players. zinf, cdplay, xine, totem, vlc, ...........

Is there some particular issue you're having? A lot of the more recent computers are lacking the CD Audio cable that connects directly to your sound card from the CD drive. So you have to extract the data digitally. XMMS has a configuration option for this. + -> Options -> Preferences -> Audio CD Reader -> Configure -> Output -> Read Digital CD Audio. AND + -> Options -> Prefernces -> CD Audio Player -> Configure -> Play Mode -> Digital Audio Extraction. You might also need to install extra packages. apt-get install xmms-cdread. Also note that you may not have a /dev/cdrom entry by default. Use /dev/hdc or whatever applies to your particular setup instead.

Check fstab and make sure you have iso9660 in the settings, auto was acting wierd with me so i set the options manually. Also double check and make sure you have the audio codexes.