Amarok shows 'Could not read Audio CD' in the status bar, ks CD appears to be playing it but must be sending it down the wrong channel or something because I don't hear anything. If I open any media file the sound comes through perfectly.

I eventually got it to work through Xine which worked first time (once I'd found the PLaylist>Get from>CD option - which is obviously what I'd immediately think of if I wanted to play a CD.) Also, what the **** is going on with those menus?

Anyway, I'm quite disappointed that I had to jump through this many hoops just in order to play a CD why can't Amarok just do it?

Amarok plays audio CD's on my system. I'm running version 1.4.8

All I do is insert the audio CD, click Engage--> Play Audio CD. It takes a few seconds to read the files on the CD, and populate the playlist. Then I click the play button.

Have a look at your Amarok configuration, under Settings. Look at the Engine tab. What is set in your Default device field?

When I go to Engage--> Play Audio CD I get 'Could not read audio CD' in the status bar. For the Engine the default device is dev/hdc, which I think is correct, I have tried changing this to /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom0 but it makes no difference.

In terminal run "cat /etc/fstab". There will be an entry in fstab for your cdrom device. Ubuntu Intrepid on my laptop lists the cdrom as /dev/scd0. Try setting Amarok's default device to whatever your cdrom is listed as in fstab.

Thanks tommcd that did it, /dev/cdrom0 is the mount point, the CD drive actually lives on /dev/scd0, pointing Amarok at that works.