CD players not working

[Colin Law]

On 27 January 2015 at 00:34, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes.  Same problem.

Which problem are you referring to?  Since you have top posted rather
than inserting your reply inline it is difficult to be sure.

The convention on this list is to reply inline.

Colin

>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 22 January 2015 at 05:18, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm running Xubuntu 14.04.1 with all the latest updates, and for some
>>> reason neither of my two disc burners seems to be able to play a song,
>>> or maybe I should say the software won't play the discs.
>>>
>>> Mplayer stops and starts every second or so with pauses between each
>>> second played.
>>>
>>> Parole can't read the tracks: "GStreamer backend error - Could not
>>> handle CDDA URI"
>>>
>>> Because of those, I installed mplayer-gui, which wont' run because it
>>> says "Error in skin config file on line 6: PNG read error in
>>> /usr/shar/mplayer/skins/default/main."
>>>
>>> My drive 0 is a blue-ray burner on which I just burned an audio CD
>>> that I'm trying to play.
>>>
>>> My drive 1 is a DVD burner that gets the same error in parole and
>>> mplayer gets EOF before anything.
>>>
>>> Is there a better choice of media player, or are my drives bad
>>> (neither one is that old), or ???
>>
>> Have you tried playing a known good CD?
>>
>> Colin
>>
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