[lucid] audiocd:/MP3 is empty; how to fix?

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Wednesday 20 October 2010, D. R. Evans wrote:
> I recently purchased a CD wanted to rip it to add to the
> collection on my hard drive.
> 
> This is (I think) the first time I've tried to do this with lucid,
> but it worked fine in karmic.
> 
> But when I open audiocd:/MP3, the virtual directory is blank. It
> seems that something in the upgrade from karmic to lucid must
> have disabled the capability to grab tracks from this virtual
> directory and copy them to the hard drive.
> 
> What do I need to do to re-enable this feature? I looked in System
> Settings
> 
> | Advanced | Audio CDs | MP3 Encoder and everything looks right...
> | but I
> 
> expect that that simply makes sure that the actual MP3 encoding is
> performed correctly, which is a different issue from displaying
> the contents of the audiocd:/MP3 virtual directory. I don't see
> where to control the latter.
> 
> FWIW, the audiocd:/Ogg Vorbis directory is also blank.
> 
>   Doc
> 
> PS The karmic -> lucid update was done several months ago, using
> the usual online upgrade path.

Did you remember to install lame, etc.? That's the most common 
problem which results in this behaviour.

  --Reinhold