Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

[Andrey Moshbear]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 15:28, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> Colleen Beamer wrote:
>>
>> On 10/22/11 04:14, Dale wrote:
>>>
>>> Mick wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 01:19:15 Colleen Beamer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> This is solved.
>>>>>
>>>>> The solution came from posting to KDE forums.
>>>>>
>>>>> It was a configuration issue:
>>>>>
>>>>> In System Settings, I had to select "Device Actions", "Play Audio CD
>>>>> with KsCD, select Edit, select "the devices property Available Content
>>>>> must equal Audio, choose "Property Match"for the parameter type,
>>>>> "Optical Disk" for the Device type, "Available Content" for the Value
>>>>> name and Equals Audio.
>>>>>
>>>>> That did the trick!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for letting us know!  I recall having problems in the past
>>>> with kscd on
>>>> a KDE desktop and I couldn't remember if I ever fixed it.  Now I know
>>>> how.  ;-)
>>>>
>>> I finally got mine to open too.  I did a emerge -e world since I could
>>> tell it was just some dep that got missed.  Anyway, is it just me or
>>> is KSCD just got plain ugly?
>>
>> Yeah, used to be much easier to use.  Like I said in a previous post,
>> I'm a bit anal and this bugged me 'cause I've always had it working
>> before.  For me, kaffeine works fine and I've discovered that I like it
>> better than kscd anyway.
>>
>> Colleen
>
> I use smplayer for mine.  It's nothing fancy but it plays music.  I clicked
> on the pop up and tried to play a CD with amarock, (sp?), and I never could
> get it to even play the CD.  It wanted to build some database or something.
> I'm in the mood to get rid of that thing.
>
> I'll check into this Kaffeine thing tho.
>

amarok

And why not just use mplayer? We're gentoo users, so it's expected
that at least one xterm is active. So just ^+T (for +=shift) and run
mplayer.

Also, amarok segfaults on my box on startup. Couldn't be arsed to look
at the backtrace.