The right to sing along with an audio CD

[Piet Knoester]

On my potato box with kernel 2.2.19 most things work fine but not the 
cdplayer. When I try to use a program to play an audio cd it gives an 
error. When I do this as root my room is filled with lovely music. Looks 
like a matter of rights but where do I have to do what.

Has anyone a good suggestion.
Thanks in advance.

Piet Knoester