On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Colleen Beamer <colleen.bea...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/19/11 05:45, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> Colleen Beamer <colleen.bea...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to >>> resolve the issue. >>> >>> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's. I've >>> tried with kscd and Kaffeine. Haven't installed amarok yet. I've >>> checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel. In /dev cdrom is a >>> symlink to sr0. Nothing I've read in anything that came up in my google >>> search helped. >> If you have only one CD drive, the CD will play with: >> >> cdda2wav -e -B -N > > Thanks, but this isn't really necessary any longer. The only thing that > doesn't want to play an audio CD is kscd. Kaffeine works fine. Tried > to install kaudiocreator to rip CD's, but it kept crashing on start so, > I found Asunder and it works well. So, despite the fact that I'm not > 100% tickled since I'm a bit anal and like all things tied up in a neat > little box with a bow, I have audio CD's playing in kaffeine and I am > able to rip them using asunder. > > However, I will keep this for future reference in case I ever need it! :-) > > Regards,
If you get around to trying other ways later then consider not using a GUI at all for ripping CDs. Here's what I do, thanks to Joerg years ago. Obviously change parameters as you see fit. One caveat about this command set is that it doesn't grab any hidden tracks. Cheers, Mark cdda2wav dev=1000,1,0 -vall -B -Owav -paranoia -speed=6 cdrecord dev=1000,1,0 -eject cdrecord dev=1000,1,0 -v -speed=6 -dao -useinfo -text -eject *.wav rm audio*
