Ubuntu 8.04 cdrom is not seeing all mp3's

[Paul Johnson]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Johnny <linuxhamuser at gmail.com> wrote:
> H i
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> Ubuntu 8.04 did all updates
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> The cdrom is not seeing all mp3's on the cd disc
> But when I view them on a Windows XP computer I see all the missing mp3's
> This is a new cd disc
> What seems to be the problem why I can't see all the mp3's with Ubuntu
>

You have not told us how you are "seeing" the mp3 files on the disk.
If you put in the disk and it gets mounted under /media/cdrom0 or
somewhere, open a terminal in there and type "ls -la"  and see if it
lists all the files you expect.  If it does show them, then you know
you are not seeing them because of some flaw in the graphical
interface.

If the files are not there, then I suspect you have a multisession CD,
and the mp3 files were written in one or more sessions.  There are
some formats of multisession CD-R that windows understands but other
systems do not understand because windows is keeping secrets.
Understand that a multisession disk is really a first session of
files, and when another session is added, it writes on a clean part of
the disk and it is SUPPOSED TO update the file index to include the
files on the old part.  If that index is not correctly written, then
the CD may show you only the most recent session's files.  Or, was it
the oldest session's files?  I always forget :)

If you don't make some progress, please write back and let us know

1) How was the mp3 disk created?  Software, multisessions?

2) When you put the disk in your system, is it automatically mounted?
What is the output from "dmesg" in a terminal?  If there are separate
sessions on the CD, it may be that they are showing up as separate
partitions.  I've heard people claim that happens, but I've never seen
it.

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