Audio-CD not mountable

[Nils Kassube]

Joep L. Blom wrote:
> Thanks for the lucid explanation. The only problem remains that in
> another system with the same operating system the audio CD can be
> mounted and opened with e.g. thunar.

Well, actually some systems have the possibility to read the audio CD 
and show it to the user like it was mounted, but technically it isn't 
because you really can't mount an audio-CD. But I suppose you don't care 
about the technical details als long as it "Just Works (TM)". So let's 
try to find out what exactly doesn't work like expected on your system.

Now I installed xubuntu-desktop on my laptop (with 12.04) to find out 
what happens if I start a xubuntu session and insert an audio-CD. The 
result is that an icon labeled "Audio-CD" appears on the desktop and 
parole media player automatically gets started to play the music of the 
CD. If I then close the media player and double-click on the Audio-CD 
icon, the file manager thunar opens and I can see the individual tracks 
as wav files with fake filenames like "/Track 1.wav". Please note the 
leading "/" which is actually not allowed in a real filename because it 
is the directory separator. If I open a terminal and check with the 
"mount" command, I can't see anything mounted which looks like the 
audio-CD. The output is the same as it was before I inserted the CD.

I can then "copy" the wav files from the Audio-CD to some place e.g. in 
my $HOME folder and the file manager rips the selected CD tracks and 
places real wav files on my harddisk with real filenames without "/".

I also tried what happens with a modern "Enhanced CD" which has a data 
section and an audio section. In this case I get two icons on the 
desktop, one labeled "Audio-CD" and the other one labeled with the 
artists name. This time a dialog appears where I can select to display 
the files or to play the CD. If I select to play the CD, it starts 
parole media player like it did with the real audio-CD. If I select to 
show the files, it mounts the data section of the CD and opens thunar to 
show the files but those are not wav files but some useless crap for 
Windows. This time I can see with the mount command that the CD is 
actually mounted and I can e.g. list the files withe the ls command.

What I described above is what I would expect to see on a standard 
Xubuntu machine. Please explain what is different on your machine, so we 
can possibly determine what is wrong on your machine.


Nils