Hello again!

After extensive googling and searching LQ, I am stumped by what seems to be a common problem.

For a while I was able to play CDs in Amarok without any problems. Then.... I put in a different CD (a burned one) and it didn't work. I couldn't mount it and Amarok didn't see it. I figured the CD was botched, so I put in the old one that worked before. Now it doesn't play either.

I don't think it's a question of permission because
* I can mount non-music discs
* my user is in the audio, cdrom, and disk groups

I didn't change anything; music CDs just stopped working. Here's my /etc/fstab:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto auto,user,ro 0 0

"auto,auto" you want the cdrom to mount(or try to) at boot up?

try 'auto noauto owner user ro 0 0'

um.. mixer settings, any other players work?

Tried both, no luck.

I've narrowed the problem down (somewhat). I did a fresh reinstall and upgraded to current; same problem.
I noticed that Amarok works fine the *first* time I run it, but after that doesn't see CDs anymore.

Anyone have any ideas?

I've been having same issues with CD's in Gentoo. I'd say it's about fstab but that's just quessing at the moment.

Its amarok, for sure. It says it can't load the xine engine (as I'm hearing the KDE startup sound). Sometimes it works, though unpredictably. Hopefully 1.4.1 will straighten out the bugs.

Two questions:

1. Is "hdc=ide-scsi" present in your lilo.conf file (in the /etc directory)

2. Have you tried
The above will drop the current /dev/cdrom and replace it with a soft link to /dev/scd0

More info here Good luck with it

Amarok worked eventually.
I haven't tried J.W.'s solution yet (but I will when I need to burn a CD). Thanks for the link to Bruno's page, though.

How, exactly? Others with the same issue may need to know what you did to resolve this...

Sorry... I should have been more clear.
I don't know why amarok works/or doesn't. Many times, CDs work right off the bat. Other times, I need to choose the xine engine and then it works. Quite often, though, amarok says it can't load the xine engine.

Notes:
* I _really_ haven't changed anything between KDE startups.
* No, there aren't other programs using sound at the same time.

I am truly convinced this is a bug (the first I've come across in -current).

I titled the previous reply, "fixed" because it happens less often now.

Just to your knowledge, audio cds can't be mounted as they don't have a filesystem. Many programs emulate as if tracks were files, but they aren't.

amarok is just too bloated and that constant updating the database is annoying. so I just stick with xmms and its gtk2 clone bmp