I'm trying to play a CD on my kubuntu 9.04 Linux box, without much success at the moment.
The default "Listen Music Player" allows me to select one track and play it but once started the user interface is completely dead, I can't stop the track playing, select another track or anything. A quick Google search suggests that this is quite a common problem with "Listen Music Player".
So I have downloaded Rhythmbox, I can't even get it to select and play tracks from the CD. Ah, yes I can, I need to add all the tracks to the "Play Queue" and then press play.
Is there not an application that plays a CD without all this paraphernalia? Any suggestions for a bear of very little (audio) brain like me?
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 01:20:32PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
I'm trying to play a CD on my kubuntu 9.04 Linux box, without much success at the moment.
Oops, how did that 'k' get there, I mean xubuntu 9.04 of course (though I have most of the KDE libraries installed because I use digikam among other things).
The default "Listen Music Player" allows me to select one track and play it but once started the user interface is completely dead, I can't stop the track playing, select another track or anything. A quick Google search suggests that this is quite a common problem with "Listen Music Player".
So I have downloaded Rhythmbox, I can't even get it to select and play tracks from the CD. Ah, yes I can, I need to add all the tracks to the "Play Queue" and then press play.
Is there not an application that plays a CD without all this paraphernalia? Any suggestions for a bear of very little (audio) brain like me?
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Hi,
2009/8/16 Chris G cl@isbd.net:
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 01:20:32PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
So I have downloaded Rhythmbox, I can't even get it to select and play tracks from the CD. Ah, yes I can, I need to add all the tracks to the "Play Queue" and then press play.
Ahh.. so you're complaining about playing CDs on some weird Linux desktop environment/app, not on Linux itself! :)
Is there not an application that plays a CD without all this paraphernalia? Any suggestions for a bear of very little (audio) brain like me?
Amarok and mplayer immediately spring to mind.
Srdjan
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 03:57:57PM +0100, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Hi,
2009/8/16 Chris G cl@isbd.net:
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 01:20:32PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
So I have downloaded Rhythmbox, I can't even get it to select and play tracks from the CD. Ah, yes I can, I need to add all the tracks to the "Play Queue" and then press play.
Ahh.. so you're complaining about playing CDs on some weird Linux desktop environment/app, not on Linux itself! :)
Well *some* sort of 'environment' is necessary isn't it, otherwise one can't even communicate with the computer/Linux. A command line player would be fine by me.
Is there not an application that plays a CD without all this paraphernalia? Any suggestions for a bear of very little (audio) brain like me?
Amarok and mplayer immediately spring to mind.
OK, thanks, I'll take a look.
On 16 Aug 13:20, Chris G wrote:
I'm trying to play a CD on my kubuntu 9.04 Linux box, without much success at the moment.
The default "Listen Music Player" allows me to select one track and play it but once started the user interface is completely dead, I can't stop the track playing, select another track or anything. A quick Google search suggests that this is quite a common problem with "Listen Music Player".
So I have downloaded Rhythmbox, I can't even get it to select and play tracks from the CD. Ah, yes I can, I need to add all the tracks to the "Play Queue" and then press play.
Is there not an application that plays a CD without all this paraphernalia? Any suggestions for a bear of very little (audio) brain like me?
Having not had a cd drive in a laptop for a while, and having ripped my cd collection quite a while ago... I tend to use mpd instead. But, when I did used to play cds directly it would have been using something like cdcd (console based cd player), or xmms (though, not in the last few years, as it's been deprecated). There also used to be a simple gnome player but I can't remember what it was called now. Might also be worth looking at ascd.
Cheers,
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