Audio-CD not mountable

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 21 June 2013 17:42:17 Joep L. Blom did opine:

> I have a very annoying problem. I can read data-discs, burn data- and
> audio- discs, but I cannot read audio-discs.
> I load the disc in the reader/burner and it shows up on the desktop as
> "Audio Disc" but I cannot open it or mount it.
> When I  hover over the image it says: "Removable Volume not mounted
> yet". When I click right on the image it gives a menu with: "Open",
> "Mount Volume", "Properties"(greyed) and "Applications".
> When I click "Open" or "Mount Volume" I get an error window
> saying:"Failed to mount audio Disc","location is not mountable".
> I hope somebody recognises the error and knows the remedy.
> Xubuntu 12.04.
> On another system with the same OS the same discs load without a problem
> (but at the moment I have a mechanical problem with the reader).
> I hope somebody has the solution as I need urgently to copy a few
> tracks. Joep

Audio CD's were devised a decade or more before anyone thought of actually 
putting a filesystem on them and using them for data.  So the only thing 
you can do with an audio cd is play it serially from the beginning, IF your 
drive can do that.

So all you can do is play them, and I prefer to rip them with Grip so they 
can be played out of the order on the disk.

I have also heard rumors that the **AA's have struck again, and the ability 
to play an audio cd has been removed from drives intended for use in a 
computer.  You may actually have one of them.

What I think of that idea isn't fit to be published.

Cheers, Gene
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