Cannot play audio CD's on clients

[Gavin McCullagh]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Brad Thomas wrote:

> One of them is to get Audio CD's to play on the Clients.  Right now, when
> a user puts an Audio CD into a client, the client won't mount the drive,
> and it says the drive is empty.  Is there a way to get this part going?

An audio CD cannot be mounted as such, only cds with a data track can be
mounted as only they have a filesystem (there are cds which have both).
Audio cds are often played direct from cdrom to sound card via special
cable.  In this case all the software does is instruct the cdrom to play
the audio track -- no audio data goes through software.

On a thin client, if you try to run a simple piece of cd player software
it will more than likely try to instruct the cdrom on the server to play an
audio cd.  I'm not sure if there is "thin client-aware" cd player software
which might be able to connect to your thin client and instruct it to play
but if that exists you should see the start cdrom spinning when you press
play.  If you see that and get no sound, it's probably because you lack the
internal audio cable.

There is also a software way to play cds (it's the same way people commonly
rip cds).  I'm not sure how one would do this on a thin client.

So:
  - what cd player software did you try?
  - when you press play, does it spin?
  - do you get any errors?

Gavin