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

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Thursday 21 October 2010, Brian Wootton wrote:
> On 21/10/10 12:08, kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> > That seems to confirm my suspicions - the kioslave is either
> > dying or timing out. KDE uses lame to do the actual copying but
> > its kioslave to determine the info on the CD. As lame can
> > obviously access the CD, you likely just found a bug in the
> > audiocd kioslave.
> 
> I don't know whether my problem is related or not. I have
> many .mp3 files on my HD, ripped from CDs using Karmic
> and previous kubuntu versions. now got kubuntu 10.04.1
> I attempted, using K3b to produce an audio cd from an
> mp3 directory, it seemed to succeed, having burnt it though,
> the automounter found it OK but it refused to play with Amarok
> or any other audio player(VCH et al). And all the directories on
> the disk were empty except for fullcd as mentioned above.
>   So being stupid I burnt a data disk with the mp3 directory using
> K3b - seemed to work OK. But the auto mounter refused to notice
> this disk at all.
>   Just to confuse the issue still further the mp3 files on the
> data disk played perfectly on my win 7 machine - and the audio CD
> wouldn't show up anywhere in win 7.
> I reckon the developers have been copyrighted into limbo and been
> forced to b&*($r up a perfectly good audio/video set up and leave
> us in kubuntu linux with this mess.

Just out of curiosity and because it worked for me: which version of 
KDE are you two using? I was using 4.5.1, had kubuntu-extras 
installed and the medibuntu repository enabled.

  --Reinhold