Re: Can not play CDs
On Tuesday 28 October 2014 19:27:56 Steve Greig wrote:
> Thanks Scott and Gary.
>
> The problem is now largely sorted out as I have got VLC media player
> to play audio cds now by opening it and asking it to play the cd in
> the cd drive as Gary suggested. I have also discovered how to make VLC
> display the tracks on the cd. Still if I go to dolphin it lists the
> audio cd on the left but it does not respond in any way if you click
> on it so you cant see the individual tracks on the cd. I have found
> that if I put a cd of photos in the drive then the name of the cd
> appears on the left and when I click on that the individual photo
> files appear. So it is looking like I can do most of what I would like
> to which is great.
>
> I did try to do the install that Scott suggested as it would be nice
> to have the audio tracks listed from within Dolphin although not
> essential. It seems not to have worked. The following is the response
> I got:
>
> steve@debian:~$ su
> Password:
> root@debian:/home/steve# apt-get -y install kdemultimedia-kio-plugins
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Suggested packages:
> lame
> The following NEW packages wl be installed:
> kdemultimedia-kio-plugins
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 81 not upgraded.
> Need to get 128 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 466 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
> kdemultimedia-kio-plugins
> E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes
> root@debian:/home/steve#t would be nice to have a list of tracks on
> the cd but maybe not essential.
>
>
> Thanks again to you both for your help. I am pretty happy with the
> situation now but open to any more suggestions or comments. Best
> wishes Steve
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> wrote:
> > On 28/10/14 03:01 AM, Steve Greig wrote:
> >> If I put a CD into my computer it appears in Dolphin on the left hand
> >> side
> >> where it sais 'Audio CD'. However if I click on this the contents do not
> >> appear in the main window of Dolphin. Also I cant play the CD or find any
> >> other way of accessing it. This applies to other CDs not just Audio. In
> >> the
> >> past I have accessed CDs without problems on this same computer.
> >>
> >> It may be relevant that I often get an error message something like 'apt
> >> update cant access CD drive' (I cant remember the exact wording).
Looks like your CD is still in /etc/apt/sources.list - but that is no problem
relating to your Audio-CD trouble.
> >>
> >> Any help would be very much appreciated. Steve
[snip]
You might want to check the permissions on /var/tmp
especially /var/tmp/kdecache*
Also check if there is enough room in that directory. At least 700MB should be
free - better a lot more.
I tried a similar setup to yours. It works on my installation of KDE 4.14.x
So that is all that came to my mind right now.
Cheers,
Eike
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