CD's play on commandline but not in GNOME (was ... Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid)
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:18:04AM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 22:31 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> >...I'd try installing cdtool, and see if it plays
> > with that.
>
> Yes, it does.
Ah! OK. It seems as though the problem lies with GNOME. I'm sorry, but I
don't use GNOME and can't offer any suggestions.
> The position is that udev recognises when an audio CD is inserted or
> ejected and it updates the symlinks. Programs that can be told what
> drive to use can see and access the CD.
>
> The problem is that Gnome (?) does not recognise that the CD has been
> inserted and so does not initiate the program to play it.
>
> Rhythmbox needs that same notification to tell it to put the CD device
> into the sidebar and thus make it accessible, so rhythmbox cannot be
> used at all with an audio CD.
Seems weird.
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