[Bug 48893] cd play (kscd on KDE via audio patch cable) stops

[Alan Jenkins]

Public bug reported:

Symptom: the CD stops playing; pressing play again starts again from the beginning of the CD.
Probable cause: some daemon trying to access the drive.

Seemed to happen just once about 5 minutes in with my cd drive (hdb,
same channel as hard drive), but repeatedly on my DVD drive (hdc, lone
master of ide channel 2).

I understand the gnome side of ubuntu is defaulting to digital playback
(via the IDE cable instead of the patch cable) since its way to hard to
work out whether the patch cable is connected or not - which I respect.
I just happen to have a /real/ cd drive with headphone socket, volume
control and a play/skip track button on the drive next to stop/eject,
and I like to make use of them.  Apart from anything else the headphone
socket is in a much more convenient place :-).

This issue may also affect people suffering from the gnome-media bug
(see #13609) which kills realtime digital extraction of CD audio, if
they switch to playback via the patch cable to solve the problem.

Can we find out what daemon is doing this, and get it to stop, at least
while a CD is being played?

I'm revising for exams at the moment so I've just switched to digital
playback for the moment, but didn't see any harm in reporting this now.

** Affects: kdemultimedia (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Elliot Hughes
         Status: Needs Info

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cd play (kscd on KDE via audio patch cable) stops
https://launchpad.net/bugs/48893