I know, I know, not that old chestnut! Over the years since Amarok became the default player, I have installed Kubuntu for myself and for other folk, on desktops and laptops. I have never managed to get Amarok to play from an audio CD. I see from the archives that I am not alone.
I think it is time to pose the question again with Kubuntu 11.10.
Amarok, Version 2.4.3
Using KDE 4.7.2 (4.7.2)
From a previous thread, I typed the following into konsole,
amarok -d --nofork
Amarok started and (I think because of all the other players I had open) it listed the contents of the audio CD in the drive,
Selecting all the tracks and choosing 'Add to Playlist' did not add the tracks to the playlist. The debug output gave this:
amarok: Drop from external source or file browser
amarok: BEGIN: void Playlist::Controller::slotFinishDirectoryLoader(co nst TrackList&)
amarok: END__: void Playlist::Controller::slotFinishDirectoryLoader(co nst TrackList&) [Took: 0s]
amarok: BEGIN: void ScanManager::checkForDirectoryChanges()
amarok: BEGIN: void DirWatchJob::setPaused(bool)
amarok: END__: void DirWatchJob::setPaused(bool) [Took: 0s]
amarok: END__: void ScanManager::checkForDirectoryChanges() [Took: 0s]
Nothing appears in the playlist. Doing the same with any audio files adds the files to the playlist.
I had already reinstalled Amarok, just in case.
The same thing happens when the CD is inserted and Plasma asks me whether I want to play it in Amarok. It may, or may not list the files on the Media Sources panel, but will not add the tracks to the playlist.
As an alternative, I installed Rhythmbox and VLC. Nothing I could do with Rhythmbox would get it to list or play the tracks. VLC was the same, at first. I noticed that it was looking for /dev/cdrom0. Dolphin told me that the device was /dev/sr0. VLC would not select the correct device no matter what I tried. Eventually, I typed in the correct driver and off it went.
VLC stuttered at irregular intervals. I remembered one archive posting mentioning a changing wallpaper doing this at regular intervals. Watching the System Monitor, I noticed that Dolphin and another process did an irregular 'disk sleep mode' function that appeared to coincide with the stutters. The moral of this part of the tale is to close file managers and anything doing a file management function whilst playing back CDs. This particular system is an Acer Revo 3700 with a dual core Atom. I don't think that the low power of the cpu is the cause of the stuttering.
Has anyone managed to get Amarok to play an audio CD without first ripping the tracks?
Regards
Roy Leith
I think it is time to pose the question again with Kubuntu 11.10.
Amarok, Version 2.4.3
Using KDE 4.7.2 (4.7.2)
From a previous thread, I typed the following into konsole,
amarok -d --nofork
Amarok started and (I think because of all the other players I had open) it listed the contents of the audio CD in the drive,
Selecting all the tracks and choosing 'Add to Playlist' did not add the tracks to the playlist. The debug output gave this:
amarok: Drop from external source or file browser
amarok: BEGIN: void Playlist::Controller::slotFinishDirectoryLoader(co nst TrackList&)
amarok: END__: void Playlist::Controller::slotFinishDirectoryLoader(co nst TrackList&) [Took: 0s]
amarok: BEGIN: void ScanManager::checkForDirectoryChanges()
amarok: BEGIN: void DirWatchJob::setPaused(bool)
amarok: END__: void DirWatchJob::setPaused(bool) [Took: 0s]
amarok: END__: void ScanManager::checkForDirectoryChanges() [Took: 0s]
Nothing appears in the playlist. Doing the same with any audio files adds the files to the playlist.
I had already reinstalled Amarok, just in case.
The same thing happens when the CD is inserted and Plasma asks me whether I want to play it in Amarok. It may, or may not list the files on the Media Sources panel, but will not add the tracks to the playlist.
As an alternative, I installed Rhythmbox and VLC. Nothing I could do with Rhythmbox would get it to list or play the tracks. VLC was the same, at first. I noticed that it was looking for /dev/cdrom0. Dolphin told me that the device was /dev/sr0. VLC would not select the correct device no matter what I tried. Eventually, I typed in the correct driver and off it went.
VLC stuttered at irregular intervals. I remembered one archive posting mentioning a changing wallpaper doing this at regular intervals. Watching the System Monitor, I noticed that Dolphin and another process did an irregular 'disk sleep mode' function that appeared to coincide with the stutters. The moral of this part of the tale is to close file managers and anything doing a file management function whilst playing back CDs. This particular system is an Acer Revo 3700 with a dual core Atom. I don't think that the low power of the cpu is the cause of the stuttering.
Has anyone managed to get Amarok to play an audio CD without first ripping the tracks?
Regards
Roy Leith
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