Trying to mount my cdrom0 drive to play a music CD

[theAdmiral]

Re: Trying to mount my cdrom0 drive to play a music CD

it asks for a server site on first run

[dibl]

Re: Trying to mount my cdrom0 drive to play a music CD

Hmmm. I installed it, but I don't find it in the menu, either in "Internet" or "Multimedia". I guess I have to run it from the konsole.

[theAdmiral]

Re: Trying to mount my cdrom0 drive to play a music CD

maybe that you didn't install all of the plugins and associated packages that go with it

[dibl]

Re: Trying to mount my cdrom0 drive to play a music CD

Interesting. In the console "xmms2" shows the list of command options. "browse" is supposed to show a list of servers. But I ran "xmms2 browse" and it says I need to use a URL. heh heh heh -- diabolical!

[dibl]

Re: Trying to mount my cdrom0 drive to play a music CD

I just went down the list of available plugins and marked 7 of them to add, including "systray integration" and "XML". But it automatically picked up ALSA, which should be correct. But where is the GUI front end?

EDIT: AHA! It was that "systray" plugin that put the GUI icon in Multimedia.

[theAdmiral]

Re: Trying to mount my cdrom0 drive to play a music CD

Actually, I just realized that I don't have the XMMS2 main gui client installed. I do have Esperanza (XMMS2-based) and Abraca, also XMMS2-based. I also have the tray icon installed. I am pursuing this because I read that XMMS2 is just like WinAmp. I know from experience that Winamp is killer, that is why I want it. Mainly to see if XMMS2 has a Shoutcast-like feature that I could use.

[dibl]

Re: Trying to mount my cdrom0 drive to play a music CD

I'm not getting xmms2 to add a stream. Probably because I don't know the package. In the konsole, I issue the command:

dibl@ibex:~$ xmms2 add [url]http://64.237.49.76:8005[/url]
Added [url]http://64.237.49.76:8005[/url]

So it looks right. But then when I check the playlist, I get:

dibl@ibex:~$ xmms2 list
->[0/1] mind.in.a.box - Lament for Lost Dreams (snippet) (00:26)

which is the little demo snippet. So it's not actually adding the URL like it said. :P

[toad]

Re: Trying to mount my cdrom0 drive to play a music CD

type xmm on the command line followed by a tab (or two if necessary). tab is a dead useful autocomplete function. One you have the proper name on the command line put a space after it and a & - does that make sense?

For kate it would look like this

kate &

The & tells bash that the program should run in the background, i.e. you can continue using that instance of the cli for other stuff.

[dibl]

Re: Trying to mount my cdrom0 drive to play a music CD

I am pursuing this because I read that XMMS2 is just like WinAmp.

At the risk of starting a brawl ... have you looked at Amarok 2? It is happily playing a shoutcast stream right now -- just checking.

[theAdmiral]

Re: Trying to mount my cdrom0 drive to play a music CD

From AC-DCs famous closing line in "She's Got the Jack": "Thank you, thank you, thank you very much, thank you." I hit the jackpot! Subscribed to Last.fm and then opened Amarok, and in the configuration set Last.fm as my server. Voila! I now have muzick Thanks for all of your help, Everyone. Back to studies for me.

theAdmiral

[dibl]

Re: Trying to mount my cdrom0 drive to play a music CD

Whew -- that's great! I was afraid I was going to have to make xmms2 work from the command line, and it looks like it has about 200 commands!

[Guest]

Re: Trying to mount my cdrom0 drive to play a music CD

Could not mount cdrom0
mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0.
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

Hi!

I've installed Kubuntu 8.10 32bit today, and I'm getting the same error with USB flash drives. If I boot from live CD I can use a flash drive normally.

Any suggestions?

[theAdmiral]

Re: Trying to mount my cdrom0 drive to play a music CD

Sorry, Bud. Your guess is as good as mine. I have given up on trying to mount my cdrom for now. Must tend to other things.

theAdmiral

[Snowhog]

Re: Trying to mount my cdrom0 drive to play a music CD

while we are on the topic, do you know how to get XMMS2 going? I have it installed, but I don't know how to run it for the first time.

thanks

See my reply to your other post here.

[Zeikcied]

Re: Trying to mount my cdrom0 drive to play a music CD

To get back on topic, I have the same issue with audio CDs. Though I doubt it's due to an Intel chipset, as I have an AMD processor.

The strange thing is that Amarok and Kaffeine, both KDE3 apps, say there is no CD inserted. I have tried with two music CDs and got the same result. I tested again with a data CD, and the New Device Notifier popped up and let me mount the disc.

I also tried Dragon Player and VLC, and they didn't recognize the disc. I tried mounting the disc myself, and it tells me:

mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist

I did "dmsg | tail" and got a similar response as one of the earlier posts.

(I tried K3b as I'm writing this, and it finally recognized and mounted the disc. So at least that works.)