Re: no audio cds (fixed)
Thanks to everyone who answered. The problem was, in fact, a combination
of insufficiennt permissions and my flawed reasoning -- as was suggested
by many of the replies.
Joe
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 01:37:45PM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote:
> Am Die, 2003-03-25 um 12.59 schrieb Joe Paxton:
> > Hello:
> >
> > Running Debian Woody on a Dell Inspiron 2650c, I am able to read data
> > cds (the installation cd, for example), but I am unable to read (play)
> > audio cds. I am not trying to mount the audio cd (I realize that this is
> > not needed)
>
> Correct.
>
> > , but rather, when I put an audio cd in the drive, and do 'cd
> > /cdrom' and then 'ls' I see nothing in the drive (and so when I try to
> > add that directory to the XMMS playlist, for example, nothing is added).
>
> Since you can't mount an audio CD you wont see anything in /cdrom since
> /cdrom is just a simple directory.
>
> Try adding the device file to your xmms playlist (ie /dev/hdc or
> whatever your cdrom is). This will allow xmms raw access to the cdrom
> if permissions permit it.
>
> HTH
> --
>
> Matthias Hentges
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