Brian, I don't think you are fully understanding the problem here.
There isn't an easy to find way for the end user to set an audio player default that is different than the three "approved" applications (Sound Juicer, Rhythmbox, and Banshee) in Ubuntu. Yes, you said that you could right click on the audio cd and are then presented with the choice to " 'Open' the CD via _A_ player' (my emphasis). The problem is that there is no option to choose another player. You are only allowed to use So the user might try to go under Preferred Applications and the Multimedia tab as this is where it was handled in previous releases of Ubuntu and the moniker "Preferred Applications" appears to fit the intent of what the user wants to do (as Retromingent points out). It turns out that you can set the default multimedia handling properties of Gnome under Nautilus. Just Open Nautilus (Places -> Home from the top Panel), then Edit -> Preferences -> Media tab. Here you can choose how to handle media, but ONLY with Sound Juicer, Rhythmbox, or Banshee (if it is installed). There is no option to configure the use of another player AND this isn't the most logical (for the average user) place to configure this behavior. One more thing that compounds the problem is the Ubuntu Help pages (in Hardy at least) state the following with regards to this issue: "When you insert an audio CD, the Sound Juicer CD player and ripper opens automatically. If you are connected to the Internet, Sound Juicer will display the CD artist, album and track names. To play the CD, click the Play button or press Ctrl+P. To play a particular track, double-click on the track or select the track and click Play. As an alternative to Sound Juicer, the Rhythmbox Music Player is also able to play CDs. Simply insert a CD, ignore or close Sound Juicer, start Rhythmbox and double-click the audio CD item in the Devices list." The last paragraph is terrible advice. If Ubuntu stands for the idea that it is the Linux for human beings (and I fully believe that it is). We should look at the idea that a person should ignore the automatically started program (Sound Juicer) and then start another program when they want to listen to a CD as fundamentally anti-user. And I honestly think that the only reason that the documentation is written that way, is because the instructions for setting an alternative action for CD audio (even for just the approved actions) is convoluted and unintuitive and therefor broken with regards to the central premise of Ubuntu. Beyond that, there should be an easily identifiable way for the average user to add to the list of applications that can handle removable media. As far as I can tell, there isn't one. -- Audio CD not handled correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/110797 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
