how to play cd's in kubuntu 9.04

[famous3warriors]

Hello I really like kubuntu allot. I just gave it a try and wow I like everything about it. But the only thing i cant get to work would be my cd player. I have an hp pavilion dv9205. I can play dvd's but I cannot play cd's. In users and groups I marked disk and nothing happens. I downloaded torrents and made dvd disks so where do I go from there. Please help with this matter thanks very much.

[flarson]

Re: how to play cd's in kubuntu 9.04

This seems strange but what I found was that kdemultimedia does not get installed by default. It pulls in kscd, but does not pull in libcdaudio1 which seems to be needed to actually get the sound. It would be nice if you could confirm this on your system with
dpkg -l | grep kdemultimedia
and
dpkg -l | grep libcdaud
then install them with
sudo aptitude install kdemultimedia libcdaudio1
I think that is what got it working for me.

[famous3warriors]

Re: how to play cd's in kubuntu 9.04

I installed that and it did not work. What else can we try.

[flarson]

Re: how to play cd's in kubuntu 9.04

Is your sound working at all?
When you try to play a CD in kscd does it act like it is playing but no sound comes out?

[Rog131]

Re: how to play cd's in kubuntu 9.04

Tell a bit more:

Is this a audio CD or CD with the mp3 files ?
Your player (KSCD, MPlayer, VLC, ...) ?
Are there error messages ? If you start the media player at the konsole !


Hardware / Drivers

Here when i drop a audio CD to the CD drive:
At the konsole:

dmesg | tail

will tell:

[ 1947.866751] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
[ 1947.866758] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1
[ 1947.866764] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 2
[ 1947.866767] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 3
[ 1947.866771] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 4
[ 1947.866774] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 5
[ 1947.866777] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 6
[ 1947.866781] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 7
[ 1947.866784] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 8
[ 1947.866787] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 9
[ 1947.890122] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0

With older version of the Kubuntu's there are not such errors.


Media Players

KSCD
- This audio CD player doesn't work at here - it simply doesn't find the audio CD's at here.

Dragon Player
- Working at here.

SMPlayer (MPlayer)
- Working at here.

VLC
- Working at here.

Kaffeine
- Working at here.

Amarok
- Amarok 2.0.2 doesn't have CD support

> HOwto play a CD with Amarok2 (Amarok Forum)
> Amarok 1.4 in Jaunty, Please? (Plus BONUS Amarok2 Rant!) (Ubuntu Forums)

[famous3warriors]

Re: how to play cd's in kubuntu 9.04

hello mando-hacker thanks for your help. KSCD did work I had the volume on mute. Once I realized that it was fine. Thanks once again.

[flarson]

Re: how to play cd's in kubuntu 9.04

That is good. i was having trouble thinking of what to try next.

[gromituk]

Re: how to play cd's in kubuntu 9.04

Hi all. mando_hacker: you might have to get your thinking cap on again!

I updated to Jaunty when it became available during the week and was at an event intending to do a karaoke session with kmid last night, when someone brought a CD to sing from.

So I put the CD in, "Devices recently plugged in" suggested launching kscd, and I got it to appear eventually (seemed to be running but invisible at first), but no sound. Not muted. Volume not zero. Apparently playing - track time incrementing. (It and Xorg between them were using 100% cpu though - even when not playing.)

So I tried Amarok. But this new-fangled Amarok 2 doesn't play CDs! (The developers seem to be in a solid-state world of their own where they consider CDs to be passe. In the real world, this is far from the case.)

I should have used Kaffeine - that works fine - but I didn't think of it so instead borrowed a portable CD player one of the guests had. How embarrassing.

Messages:

kscd(27651) HWControler::setEjectActivated: Eject at the end mode changed
kscd(27651) Phonon::KdePlatformPlugin::createBackend: using backend: "Xine"
kscd(27651) HWControler::configMedia: #o#o#o# Loading Optical Drive
kscd(27651) HWControler::configMedia: Phonon Loaded
kscd(27651) KsCD::PlayerDBusHandler::PlayerDBusHandler: **** Launching Player Handler ****
kscd(27651) HWControler::setEjectActivated: Eject at the end mode changed
Query failed: Cannot find server: mm.musicbrainz.org

Then backgrounds itself. When I press play I get this less than literate message:

kscd(27651) HWControler:lay: 1 / 15

Any clues? I didn't have libcdaud but installing it doesn't help.

I've read ancient postings about kscd using the analogue output from the CD player. I have a laptop so no idea if it's connected, but I'm sure the previous version of kscd was fine.

What with this and the panel being broken (if you don't flick the mouse quickly between it and pop-up menus such as the application launcher, it lands in the gap between and the menu disappears; it also crashed when I tried to eject a USB stick) I'm not all that impressed with Kubuntu Jaunty so far.

[flarson]

Re: how to play cd's in kubuntu 9.04

The slow start and 100% cpu suggests to me a race condition. Did the messages you posted come from that incident or from later experimenting? In hte messages it appears to have loaded correctly and then begun to play track 1 of 15. Try running
ldd /usr/bin/kscd
This will list all the libraries kscd is linked against and which library is filling the need. Are there any that are not found?

In particular is libmusicbrainz.so.4 not found?
Query failed: Cannot find server: mm.musicbrainz.org
That is the only thing I see that is different than the messages I get and mine still plays out loud.

[gromituk]

Re: how to play cd's in kubuntu 9.04

Hi mando_hacker. Not a particularly slow start - it takes about 3 seconds to deamonise and some of that is the optical drive grinding into life. I'm not using the latest and greatest laptop (P4M 1.7G c. 2004).

The messages happen each time it is started from the command line, and each time it and Xorg eat all spare CPU - but not while it's minimised, so perhaps there's some problem with the funky window it produces. (It still eats CPU if hidden but not minimised.) Yes, it looks OK apart from the sound.

Sorry about the musicbrainz message - my wifi connection is a bit sporadic so on that occasion it didn't have net access. "This CD was not found" is the usual response.

[abalone]

Re: how to play cd's in kubuntu 9.04

(if you don't flick the mouse quickly between it and pop-up menus such as the application launcher, it lands in the gap between and the menu disappears;

This doesn't happen with a "click to focus" policy, or if you make the pop-up menu tall enough to sort of nudge it a few pixels downward as well. But I do wish this weren't necessary. I'm still using "focus follows mouse" but with a small delay so the menu won't vanish on me as soon as I vacate the premises...

[flarson]

Re: how to play cd's in kubuntu 9.04

That does sound like the resource usage is a display problem. There is still the question of why the audio output failing.

[gromituk]

Re: how to play cd's in kubuntu 9.04

Interesting - Amarok doesn't make any noise either, but Kaffeine does.

[flarson]

Re: how to play cd's in kubuntu 9.04

I have an Intel ICH5 with the HDA and a USB C-Media headset. The USB headset acts as a second soundcard. Kscd and Amarok play through my speakers and kaffeine plays through my headset. VLC plays through the speakers.

I think everything is using Xine, but I am not sure. I do not have Pulse audio installed. For your use you might want to look at VLC.

I have found that when I run
kaffeine -a 0
to choose the HDA rather than headset it uses the speakers. aplay -l lists the headset as default.

Hope some of this may be helpful.