Audio-CD not mountable

[Basil Chupin]

On 22/06/13 07:48, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.

If you are using Dolphin (KDE desktop) as the file manager then after 
you start Dolphin you can left-click on the audio CD shown in the list 
of Devices (left hand 'column') and the contents of the audio CD are 
displayed.


> 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

BC

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