Ubuntu
rhythmbox package

Audio CD crashes rhythmbox

Asked by TonyR

On my Ubuntu 10.04 machine which functions as a MythTv backend i cannot play audio CD in MythTV or in Rhythmbox.

If i start Rhythmbox it opens fime but as soon as i put an Audio CD in the drive Rhythmbox closes without an error. An icon for the Audio CD appears on my desktop which I can open and see the music listed as WAV files however I cannot play with Rythembox. The strange thing is that if I use Nautilus via PLACES - Audio CD I get the following error message:

Could not open location 'cdda://sr0/'
Failed to execute child process "sound-juicer" (No such file or directory)

Because the error referred to sound juicer I installed and now sound juicer can iopen the Audio CD and play the content however Rhythmbox still crashed with I try to play an Audion CD using this preferred application.

I checked on another machine at home also running 10.04 and it can play audio Cd with Rhythmbox and as far as i know it does not have sound juicer installed at least i never explicitly installed it on that machine. Now i found on the 2nd machine where Rhythmbox works OK if I user PLACES and select the listed audio CD I also get the error above:

Could not open location 'cdda://sr0/'
Failed to execute child process "sound-juicer" (No such file or directory)

This is two separate installations of Ubuntu 10.04 on different hardware coming up with the same open location error message.

I am confused where the file system mounts CDROM if they are audio as nothing appears in the CDROM folder or the media folder. There is no command in FSTAB for CRROM so where is its mount point?

Note on the MythTV backend system VLC and Movie Player could always play audio CD even before Sound Juicer was installed.

How can I get Rhythmbox working on the MythTv box and what is this issue with PLACES where it productes this location error?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Try:

sudo apt-get install sound-juicer

Does that help?

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TonyR (rooneyo) said : 		#2

Hi ActionParsnip

As mentioned in my problem log above "Because the error referred to sound juicer I installed (sound juicer) and now sound juicer can open the Audio CD and play the content however Rythembox still crashed with I try to play an Audion CD using this preferred application."

The issue is why does Rythembox not play audio CD's and why does PLACES trow up an error message when selecting an Audio CD from the places list? Also VLC will play a CD if using Open with but not from within VLC using the Media Audio CD option. I have seen this on 2 separate installations in my own house alone!

I would be interested to know why Ubuntu struggles so much with Audio disks as I have seen this many times before in various distributions so it should be resolved.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Log bugs for each app stating how you recreate the error in vlc and other players you have tried (one bug for the individual application) and it may get attended.

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