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From: James Lockie <bjlockie@××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] umounted CD Writer medium instead of audio CD
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 02:46:35
Message-Id: 459DBAF5.7050202@lockie.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] umounted CD Writer medium instead of audio CD by Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
1 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote:
2 > On Friday, 5 January 2007 9:03, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> James Lockie wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> I insert an audio CD in my CD writer and KDE displays a popup that it
7 >>> is umounted CD Writer medium.
8 >>> Shouldn't it say it is audio CD medium?
9 >>>
10 >> I think that will depend on your USE flags. You may want to post that.
11 >> It may be some sort of plugin too.
12 >>
13 >> On mine, it pops up like yours does then when I click on 'open in a new
14 >> window', it pops up the contents. I can then copy them to the hard
15 >> drive or whatever. This is done in Konqueror by the way. I'm not sure
16 >> what you are trying to use.
17 >>
18 >> Hope that helps or helps you get help.
19 >>
20 >
21 > I don't think it has anything to do with USE flags. It can be difficult to
22 > detect the type of a CD as not all of them follow the red book audio
23 > standard. Some may be 'enhanced' CDs that include videos and images on a data
24 > track, they will show up as a plain data cd. I think some copy protection
25 > methods can make a CD deviate enough from the standard to make it look like
26 > something else.
27 >
28 > Although regardless of what KDE thinks, the CD should still work perfectly
29 > fine when played.
30 >
31 >
32 Thanks for the explanation.
33 Yep, it works fine.
34
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