CD mounts, but won't play music CDs

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Pilhofer · Post by **Pilhofer** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 5:14 pm

Hey folks. I have an odd problem. I just configured ALSA this morning, and it works wonderfully. I can play mp3s from my hard drive just fine, all the system sounds work perfectly. The odd thing is this: I can't get my CD player to play music cds. They mount, the player plays, the disc spins.. but nothing comes out.

My sound config is fine. I don't have CD muted, at least according to kmixer. Couldn't find anything in the docs/forums about this, so I am tossing this to the collective group. Anyone?

FYI, I can mount data CDs just fine, so I don't think there's a hardware/FSTAB issue. But just in case...here's my FSTAB:

/dev/hda2 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/hda4 / ext3 noatime 0 0
/dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 /mnt/windows/share vfat umask=000 0 0
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part5 /mnt/windows/music vfat user 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

rizzo · Post by **rizzo** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 5:38 pm

It is VERY possible that you don't have the cable that connects your CD-ROM to your sound card hooked up correctly. I know this is the case on my home PC, I've been too lazy to fix it and I rip everything anyway so I don't really need it.

Pilhofer · Post by **Pilhofer** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 6:27 pm

Yeah, I thought of that, but that's not it. I can play CDs fine from my Windows partition, so it has to be something non-hardware related.

rizzo · Post by **rizzo** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 6:34 pm

Hmmm yeah. Is it possible that something else has grabbed the sound device and won't let go? Of course, I would expect that the cd-player software would let you know if the sound device is busy.

Post by **pjp** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 6:36 pm

Pilhofer wrote:Yeah, I thought of that, but that's not it. I can play CDs fine from my Windows partition, so it has to be something non-hardware related.

Could still be the audio cable from CD to sound card. I've read something about audio playing over the IDE cable itself. Other distros (Mandrake, RH etc.?) install this feature by default.

Pilhofer · Post by **Pilhofer** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 8:34 pm

Hmm, it's worth looking at. I'll pop the top and take a peek. It just doesn't make any sense that sound all of a sudden wouldn't work on the Linux side.

therobot · Post by **therobot** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 8:58 pm

you are missing the cd audio cable, get the xmms plugin - cdread, and it'll work through the ide cable. the reason why it works in windows, is because windows does that by default now.

rizzo · Post by **rizzo** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 9:09 pm

therobot wrote:windows does that by default now.

Doesn't do it for me with winamp on Win2k. I put a CD in an winamp does the CDDB jazz and starts playing but there is no sound. But I can stop winamp, rip the CD with cdex and listen to the ogg files just fine.

Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 2. Is there something else I need to do for it? Or should I not be such a lazy ass and just fix the audio cable. I think one of the connecters is inserted upside-down or something.

saiyan · Post by **saiyan** » Sat Aug 03, 2002 12:00 am

rizzo wrote:
therobot wrote:windows does that by default now.
Doesn't do it for me with winamp on Win2k. I put a CD in an winamp does the CDDB jazz and starts playing but there is no sound. But I can stop winamp, rip the CD with cdex and listen to the ogg files just fine.

Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 2. Is there something else I need to do for it? Or should I not be such a lazy ass and just fix the audio cable. I think one of the connecters is inserted upside-down or something.

You nee to enable "digital CD playback" for your CDROM device. I think the setting is found in Control Panel --> System --> Device/Hardware List --> and your CDROM drive.

I haven't found a Linux player that will play CDDA digitally. I probably will try the CDREAD plugin for XMMS therobot mentioned but I don't see it in the portage tree. Hmm.....

therobot · Post by **therobot** » Sat Aug 03, 2002 12:14 am

its not in there, but you can get the source from xmms.org

badada · Post by **badada** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:12 am

I'm having the same problem. Running Kernel 2.4.28 with a SB Live! 24 and an SM-348 combo drive. But, when I turn my speaker way up. I can hear a buzz when I play and not when I don't. Theoretically the analog sound should just come in from the cable. Why should I need CDDA? The SB Live! 24 was itself a bear to figure out what was wrong. Eventually, I figured I had to mute my Digital Out to get Analog Out. THe symptoms were kind of the same. The Manual for the SM-348 combo drive says to enable digital CD playback in the troubleshooting section. These are instructions for windows though.

Thanks if you can give me any leads.

CD mounts, but won't play music CDs

CD mounts, but won't play music CDs

Did you ever figure this out?