Multimedia :: Audio CDs - can't recognize

Howdy All,
I too am a bit perplexed about what the deal is with the XMMS - I am having problems with it across two different boxes :-(

One has a burner on hdb and also a reader on hdd. The audio cable is plugged from the SB AWE64 soundcard to hdb. This box will play the same pressed CD in hdb but not hdd ? arrgh !
btw: this box is running 6.3 HD installed. This box will play MP3's from a CD in either drive if (obviously) mounted or from hard disks hda or hdc.

The other box has a dvd reader on hdb. The audio cable is plugged into it from the SB16 soundcard. This box will play MP3's from a CD in this drive if mounted. It will *not* play audio CD's (even factory pressed variety) from this drive *unless* logged in as the root user. MP3's from the hard disk hda are just fine. This box is now running 6.2 HD installed and it was the same deal if 6.3 was installed - but not 6.0 ... (as far as I remember).

Configuring XMMS for audio or digital audio extraction in the config section for the "CD Audio Player" plugin within "Preferences" makes no difference either ... :-(

Also BTW, I have since 0.5.2 been thwarted (either box) from playing VCD .dat MPEG encoded movies from a CD but is all just fine if the same file is dumped the to hard disk and renamed as .mpg instead of .dat also arrgh ! :-(

A fix for both issues or an investigation into same is desired by this otherwise *very* happy DSL user - Pretty please ? :-)

Quote (oswego @ May 11 2004,23:18)

DSL 0.63
HD installation
128 MB RAM
AMD K6-400MHz cpu

Commercial audio CDs are not recognized at all. Not as file systems or audio disks. I have read that one would have to boot using TORAM using a CD boot, but I have a HD system.

Ideas?

Okay - have since moved on to DSL 0.7. What I am finding now, is that commercial audio CD's are recognized when I am logged in as root. I can choose XMMS/Play audio CD, and when I Add songs, they appear when I browse to /cdrom.

However, when logged in as a regular user, no songs are listed when I am adding songs, and browse to /cdrom. I did "chmod u+r /cdrom" as root, but although the perms changed, regular user still cannot "see" CD contents.

I note that the meun in 0.6.2, on which I based my remaster, has:
[exec] (Xmms Play CD) {xmms /dev/cdrom}
I find my music cd is on /cdrom2, however, and so have to open that to
load the playlist into XMMS.
I do knoppix restore toram at the boot prompt, so have no problem playing
the music cd's in the one cdrom drive that I have, after I eject the DSL cd.
(It's in ram now, and the system has it at /dev/cdrom, apparently)
Other than that, I have no problems, and am thinking about changing the menu
in my remaster, and see how that goes:
[exec] (Xmms Play CD) {xmms /dev/cdrom2}
That might save me a step, and get on to playing the songs quicker.
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I have DLS 0.7.1 on my laptop and have done an HD install. As a regular use, I cannot see the files on the music cd (but as root, I can). I've tried Apps>Sound/MPEG/VoIP>XMMS>Xmms Play CD, but to no avail.

Has anyone gotten a regular user to play music cds?

I also am in exactly the same boat!

Anybody play a CD as a regular USER yet?

Is there a way to boot into ROOT permanently??

Thanks for any help!

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