On Jan 22, 2015 7:19 AM, "MR ZenWiz" <<a href="mailto:mrzenwiz@gmail.com">mrzenwiz@gmail.com</a>> 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 ??? > > Thanks. > MR > > -- > ubuntu-users mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> Try to rip one track from the CD, this would tell you if the burner(s) can read the CD, and then try to listen to the file. If I remember correctly, can use Audacity for this. If that works, then maybe try one of those big media players/managers like banshee, or others (you can search in Synaptic and choose one you might like). Hopefully they will be able to play your disks. -- Sent from my Brick (TM)