[Lubuntu] Progress on playing a CD?

John Hupp lubuntu at prpcompany.com
Tue Sep 18 16:30:50 UTC 2012


I wish that were so.  But as I posted somewhere earlier in the thread, 
VLC fails to start playing the CD when it is chosen from the 
Medium-Inserted popup.  Much in the same way as Audacious behaves.

On 9/18/2012 11:33 AM, Unleash PC wrote:
> Use VLC
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> problem solved
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> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:16:44 -0400
> John Hupp<lubuntu at prpcompany.com>  wrote:
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>> Thanks for some useful info.
>>
>> Once the CD is mounted, running "audacious cdda://" from lxterm
>> successfully plays the CD.  Also, if I temporarily edit
>> /usr/share/applications/audacious.desktop to change "Exec=audacious %U"
>> to "Exec=audacious cdda:", then choosing Audacious from the
>> Medium-Inserted popup also successfully plays the CD.
>>
>> Furthermore, the main menu shortcut for Audacious also runs "audacious
>> %U," so the desktop Exec entry seems NOT to be specialized for
>> x-content/audio-cdda (though with that statement I'm venturing beyond my
>> actual knowledge of the operating methods here).
>>
>> I can add that with the CD mounted, running "vlc cdda:" also plays the
>> CD.  Running "gnome-mplayer cdda:" produces a crash error as before
>> after the UI appears.  Running "rhythmbox cdda:" merely starts the
>> program without playing the CD.
>>
>> More on Rhythmbox: Though its CD-playing behavior was the best of the 4
>> programs under Edubuntu, it is the worst under Lubuntu as I previously
>> posted (choosing Rhythmbox from the Medium-Inserted popup results in
>> nothing at all happening).  In /usr/share/applications, it has two
>> configuration files rather than one like the other programs.  Both of
>> the configuration files make use of section labels, which the other
>> programs' desktop files do not.  Rhythmbox.desktop in its [Desktop
>> Entry] section has an "Exec=rhythmbox %U" entry.
>> Rhythmbox-device.desktop in its [Desktop Entry] section has an
>> "Exec=rhythmbox-client --select-source %U" entry.
>>
>> And though I'm new to Linux, I have not seen that LXDE has a config UI
>> similar to this one referred to for XFCE:
>> http://s15.postimage.org/94l94znm1/thunar_volman.png
>>
>> On 9/18/2012 7:33 AM, Sandor Ortegon wrote:
>>> This issue was copied to Audacious forum and John Lindgren, one of the
>>> main Audacious developers mentioned this, if useful:
>>>
>>> "Audacious will start playing a CD automatically if you run "audacious
>>> cdda://". All you need to do is configure Lubuntu to run that command
>>> when an audio CD is inserted. This is how I configure XFCE to play a
>>> CD in Audacious when I insert it:
>>> http://postimage.org/image/700w3wlzb/. I would be very much surprised
>>> if LXDE does not have a similar option."
>>>
>>> I hope this can be useful ... I guess if this is Audacious problem,
>>> the guys from Audacious are willing to solve it (John answers very
>>> fast and most bugs are fixed rather quickly) ... but it seems to me,
>>> according to the comments about Rhythmbox that the problem lies
>>> elsewhere.
>> On 9/17/2012 11:31 PM, PCMan wrote:
>>> That "medium-inserted" popup is generated from registered handlers of
>>> "x-conent/*" mime-types. See:
>>> http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/shared-mime-info-spec-latest.html#id2710963  
>>> Check if the desktop entry files of these programs have correct
>>> command lines for this purpose. Desktop entry files for
>>> "x-content/audio-cdda" should not be the same as the one shown in
>>> application menu. There should be desktop entry files specialized for
>>> "x-content/audio-cdda" since playing audio CD may need different
>>> commands. Just my 2 cents.




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