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Install the package "cdda2wav"

Alternately, you can install k3b, which is the KDE burning program (I think it is much better, personally).

apt-file find cdda2wav

cdda2wav: /usr/bin/cdda2wav
cdda2wav: /usr/share/doc/cdda2wav
cdda2wav: /usr/share/man/man1/cdda2wav.1.gz
soundkonverter: /usr/share/apps/soundkonverter/plugins/310.cdda2wav.soundkonverter.xml

thanks mycae;
but none of that works - or i don't know how to do it. i know you tried and i appreciate it.

/usr/bin/cdda2wav is already loaded, or was since i took everything connected with brasero off to make sure it wasn't interfering with K3B. no combination of anything with brasero worked, but it did have a nicely written series of fake screens to waste my time clicking through.

then i tried K3B and got a completely new set of excuse pages to run through. the highlights are:
-it says that it can't open medium, which is a commercial cd in fine condition that plays on two other players.
-program warns me that it can't function because "device in use". the device is supposed to be in use when i'm using it.
-it opens the drawer by itself and stops everything to complain that "no medium present". there was till K3B ejected it.
it opens the drawer again and tells me: reload and press OK
so i do and it gives a little trumpet blast and reads SUCCESS! in two places.
which is true if we define success as not ruining the empty disk by copying anything onto it.

the cd/dvd player works for playback, and it would copy a cd when i had windows on the computer.
so; several hours yesterday & today and still no dice.

is there a copy-a-cd program that really works? not works as in jacks me off and wastes my time, but one that will just copy a cd like programs would easily do ten years ago.

no suggestions? i guess that lynux isn't any better than windows. just different problems.

funny: my first personal computer and it's programs still work flawlessly. 1979 technology made by people who wanted things to function; it trumps modern broke-from-the-factory garbage and flashy-but-fake software, every time.

>no suggestions? i guess that lynux isn't any better than windows. just different problems.
I'll be honest -- I didn't answer you, because It doesn't sound like you would be willing to go through the steps needed to troubleshoot this; this would require some backwards and forwardsing. From your posts, it is unclear if you would just abandon the process halfway through.

If you can tell me that you are interested in actually troubleshooting this, and willing to accept that this is going to be a best-effort procedure, then I *might* be able to help -- I will do my best, but I am not sure what is going on, so this could take a while to sus out.

Mycae;
  Well, i've been trying to figure, clean up, read, and experiment my way out of these problems. no dice.
If you're willing to tell me steps to do i'd appreciate it. I've tried "Ubuntu for non-Geeks", no dice there. It assumes that everything will work. I've cleaned up my disc and made room. I've traced the usage and found the three worst offenders. I've asked my local linux guru. No improvements. been thinking of expanding memory from 1 gig to 2.5 or going to 64 bit. Not sure either will do anything.

I have an IBM G41, a hair over 1 gig of memory, lots of room on the disc, two "mobile internet(R) Pentium (R) 4 cpu 3.2 ghz" processors, running ubuntu v10.04 and GNOME 2.30.0 and "kernal linux 2.6.32-22-generic"
I've downloaded KlamAV and updated it but it doesn't seem to work, it can't really scan my computer in 10 seconds

some of the many problems:
it won't copy music to a disc, but it can sometimes burn text or pictures
it is ungodly slow in hotmail - but that may just be the evil empire
it runs my news site (boingboing) horribly, it will hardly scroll, leaves trails, locks up and runs youtube imbeds BAD
plays youtube vidio as a good soundtrack with an irregular slide show, even if i let it fully download first.
it will only play mkv files on the hard disk as badly as it plays youtube
sometimes will, sometimes won't play wmv files
sometimes both processors say they are running at %100 and nothing is should to be happening.

none of these problems happened when windows XP pro was running well - before microsoft destroyed their own product to increase vista sales.

Can you help with any of these linux problems?

Due to the nature of this forum it's recommended to stick to ONE issue PER POST. This allows us to concisely work on each problem easily and doesn't get too confusing for everyone.

I would suggest reviewing the documentation to help with some of your issues and I have included some links for you.

Official help page:
https://help.ubuntu.com/

Cannot burn:
http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/stable/nautilus-cdwriter-data.html.en

Slow hotmail:
This is generally due to flash/silverlight issues with your browser. You may wish to check this out:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1237706

It runs slowly...
This isn't very clear, but I suggest reviewing above. This again sounds like a flash issue.

Plays Youtube videos badly
Again flash comes to mind, but this could also be video issues.

Plays mkv's badly
This is possibly a symptom of 1) poor video performance, 2) poor CPU performance, 3) inadequate system for playback of HD content. Details about your system would be needed to see if this can be resolved. I find 1080p mkv's do not playback well on my machine, but on a WDTV box they play fine. This was traced to be a CPU bottleneck. If the videos are 720p they playback fine.

Sometimes plays wmv's
This is usually due to problems with wmv's themselves.

Processors at 100%cpu
This may not be a problem unless affecting system performance (which could be causing the above issues...)

So I'd suggest to work these issues out one at a time. Create a NEW question for each unique issue. I would start with the performance issues, and then move down to usability issues.

Good luck.