How to rip audio CD in Kubuntu (Neon)?

[joneall]

It's worst than just ripping. The system just does not "see" either of my DVD drives, one internal, one USB. Is there a way to rip a CD in Kubuntu or not?

The same USB drive works fine on my wife's computer with ... Windows 10.

How humiliating.

[claydoh]

K3b, or any other Linux ripping tools *should* work in neon, and install any required dependencies.
Same as it would be for Kubuntu/Ubuntu.
If the drives are not even being detected, that might indicate hardware issues.

I have an older USB optical drive, as well as on on my crusty old laptop, and they both seem to work, and are detected, though I have no media to see what libraries may be missing, if any, to show any disks inserted.

[joneall]

Actually, yes, the drive is not detected. All I see in dmesg is this:

$ sudo dmesg | grep sr0
[ 1.763049] sr 4:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 1.825543] sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0

but this is old, it was there yesterday. (I have ranted for 20 years about how dmesg should display a timestamp, but ...)

I connect the external USB drive (which works perfectly under Win10), it makes some noises. I put in a CD, it makes more noises, and that's it.

I have no idea how to debug this. The problem has been reported here, but there is no solution.

[claydoh]

$ sudo dmesg | grep sr0
[ 1.763049] sr 4:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 1.825543] sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0

So the system is detecting the hardware.
I assume that inserting a disc does not show any change in dmesg??
Do not discount the age or condition of the laser, or the media, even if it does work other OSs, I will wager that those tools have built in tools for handling this

(I have ranted for 20 years about how dmesg should display a timestamp

Ksystemlog, a GUI viewer for many logs, does show proper timestamps.
Or dmesg -T

What software do you have installed?
If k3b, maybe try Brasero. I have seen k3b declining in development, and I wonder if this may be a factor here.

I found a mini-cd with drivers for a network card. I plopped it into my no-name Ebay special USB optical drive, and ....it worked.

[Mon Mar 13 13:32:12 2023] usb 1-10: new high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd
[Mon Mar 13 13:32:12 2023] usb 1-10: New USB device found, idVendor=13fd, idProduct=0840, bcdDevice= 1.14
[Mon Mar 13 13:32:12 2023] usb 1-10: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[Mon Mar 13 13:32:12 2023] usb 1-10: Product: External
[Mon Mar 13 13:32:12 2023] usb 1-10: Manufacturer: Generic
[Mon Mar 13 13:32:12 2023] usb 1-10: SerialNumber: 534B43323832383036312020
[Mon Mar 13 13:32:12 2023] usb-storage 1-10:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[Mon Mar 13 13:32:12 2023] scsi host6: usb-storage 1-10:1.0
[Mon Mar 13 13:32:13 2023] scsi 6:0:0:0: CD-ROM hp DVD-RAM UJ8B1 H.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[Mon Mar 13 13:32:13 2023] sr 6:0:0:0: Power-on or device reset occurred
[Mon Mar 13 13:32:13 2023] sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[Mon Mar 13 13:32:13 2023] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[Mon Mar 13 13:32:13 2023] sr 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[Mon Mar 13 13:32:13 2023] sr 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5

After inserting that disk, it does show in Dolphin

[Mon Mar 13 13:33:25 2023] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[Mon Mar 13 13:33:25 2023] ISOFS: changing to secondary root

I have no record-able discs

[Beerislife]

You can also rip a CD with VLC IF it can see the drive.

[kubicle]

You can rip CDs straight in dolphin (or any kio-enabled file manager), with "kio-audiocd" package:
https://userbase.kde.org/Kio-audiocd
https://apps.kde.org/kio_audiocd/

But obviously that requires a functioning drive/disc, it that's the core problem.