cd drive

[danip]

Im not sure if this is a hardware problem or a software problem but i am putting it in hardware.

I put a music cd in my drive and i open up the my computer icon and click cd-r drive says it cannot display all of the contents. I have tried ripping cds with grip...it shows that the cd is there and it rips the tracks but when i try to play them its just blank. How can i make it so i can play cds from the drive and how can i rip the music so its actually music not just dead air?

[m3rlin]

You should mount the cd-rom and then try to open the files using a system cdplayer. Run the cdplayer then click to open files and select those in cd-rom, this if the tracks are written in *.cda.
if there are in mp3 you can use xmms player, or if there are wmv you can use mplayer.

i tryied to open *.wmv with xmms player, but the program crash, i think it doesn't support

[danip]

I think the drive is already mounted. I opened up a system cd player it says its playing the music but no sound is coming out of the speakers. If i play my mp3s on my computer i have sound.

[MMYoung]

Originally posted by danip
I put a music cd in my drive and i open up the my computer icon and click cd-r drive says it cannot display all of the contents
You can't "mount" an audio cd (unless it's an mp3 cd). Standard audio cd's don't have anything to mount as you actually mount the filesystem on/in the device and not the actual device itself.

HTH,
MMYoung

[danip]

ok so why cant i get the cd to play? My room mates pc plays cds just fine and hes running suse 9.1 also.

[fatTrav]

do you get any errors? maybe fireup the cd player from a terminal.

i assume you have the correct perms to access that drive (you might need to be in the cdrom group) ...

[danip]

Ive tried typing KsCD in terminal but it says command not found. I recieve no errors it says its playing just nothing comes out. Just blank. Ive checked both the system volume and the volume in the cd player and the volume control for my speakers they are all the way up.

[fatTrav]

is alsa set up right (assuming you are using alsa) ...?

try kscd ... commands are usually (only in a few rare occasions/occurances) all lowercase.

[danip]

what is alsa? i tried kscd all lowercase still says command not found.

[fatTrav]

Originally posted by danip
what is alsa? i tried kscd all lowercase still says command not found.

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture -> how the newest distros control sound. You may need to configure alsa.

run 'alsamixer' in a terminal and raise the volume levels there to something like 90 or so for the first three speakers (two named master something and one pcm) be sure to unmute each of them by hitting m. hit esc to when you are done. then run 'alsactl store' to store the settings.

run 'aplay /usr/share/sounds/.....' with the .... meaning to find some .wav file in there to play. (it differes on systems what is in there).

try 'whereis kscd' or 'locate kscd' to try and find it.

[banzaikai]

:rolleyes:

I've covered this before:

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=126377&highlight=cdrom+sound+banzai

Open your system, and look for a 3 or 4 lead wire from the CDROM to the soundcard/mobo. If you don't see one, that's your problem.

banzai "cables 'R' us" kai

[danip]

ran alsa but i still bet the blannk sound.

Im on a laptop and all the other noise works except when i try to play a cd so i know thats not the problem.

[MMYoung]

Have you checked to see if whatever program you are using to listen to your cd's/mp3's is using ALSA for output?

Just wondering,
MMYoung

(Sorry I can't be of much more assistance than this as I'm in WinXP right now working on my VB.NET and C++ programming homework :( )

[danip]

no i havent and i honestly have no idea how

[fatTrav]

can you listen to mp3s? i know xmms (a mp3 player) allows you to easily adjust the output plugins

[danip]

Yes i can and i use xmms

[danip]

i changed the output plugin to alsa but i cannot get xmms to play cds. is it capable of playing them?

[fatTrav]

Originally posted by danip
i changed the output plugin to alsa but i cannot get xmms to play cds. is it capable of playing them?

I dont think so. At least we know sound is working. All I can suggest is to run kde's cd player or gnome's cd player (gnome-cd) from a terminal and look for errors.

[danip]

Nope no errors whatsoever. Starts up fine plays fine just dead air coming out of the my speakers.

[hard candy]

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/thallma_xmms_audiocd.html

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/thallma_91_sndsilence.html

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/thallma_91_xmms_audiocd.html

These should help, also you can try noatun and see if it works.

[danip]

Ok i changed the xmms plugin so that it supposidly can play cds. But now i cannot get to the cd to put the tracks in the playlist. Shouldnt my cd drive be in /dev/cdrom? Thats where it says it is in the plugin and it says that it is finding tracks there too, but when i go search for that directory it does not exist.

[fatTrav]

/dev/cdrom isn't a directory. it's (prolly) a soft link to /dev/hdc which is a device. After looking at the xmms cd input plugin thingy, it lists /mnt/cdrom as the mount point for that drive. you would prolly need to mount it to be able to have xmms play it. i've never used xmms to play audio cds. I've always have used gnome-cd to do it.

your cdrom drive can be whatever you set it to be. mine are /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrw (soft links to /dev/hdd and /dev/hdc)

[danip]

Ok were getting somehwere now. I mounted the cd /dev/hdc.
Now how do i unmount the drive. I treid umount and it says device is busy.

[danip]

ok still a problem, the cd i mounted wasnt an audio cd. now when i try to mount the audio cd this is what happens.

linux:/home/steve # mount /dev/hdc /home/steve/CD
/dev/hdc: Input/output error
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
/dev/hdc: Input/output error
mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock

Is this supposed to happen? When i try to go to the directory where the cd is mounted there is nothing there.

[fatTrav]

Originally posted by danip
ok still a problem, the cd i mounted wasnt an audio cd. now when i try to mount the audio cd this is what happens.

linux:/home/steve # mount /dev/hdc /home/steve/CD
/dev/hdc: Input/output error
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
/dev/hdc: Input/output error
mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock

Is this supposed to happen? When i try to go to the directory where the cd is mounted there is nothing there.

i get the same output when I try to mount an audio cd. i never mount them, I only have gnome-cd, grip, or xine read the drives.

[danip]

well gnome-cd reads them just fine and says that its playing them just that theres no sound that comes out.