On 01/13/11 18:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday 13 January 2011 07:12:48 Jake Moe wrote: >> If you're talking about "proper" Audio-CD as one that's audio-only, no >> mixed data in there as well, then yes, I'm sure. And I have over 500 >> CDs; I can't test them all. :-P But yeah, a selection of CDs have all >> had the same result. And only on Linux; the same CDs have read fine >> from Windows. > 500, that's a bit more then I have :) Heh, yeah, well I've been collecting them for around 20 years now. Since shortly after they were introduced. I stopped counting at 500. >> The mp3 error screenshot was trying to copy the MP3 files from the CD >> through Konqueror's "audiocd:\" location to my hard drive. I assume >> Konqueror tries to auto-convert the CD tracks to MP3s on the fly. The >> log file I had attached should have been called "messages.bz2"; it's the >> kernel log file. > Yes, I noticed similar behaviour last time I used MS Windows to play audio- > CDs. I believe MS Windows 98 (yes, that long ago) used to present them as > *.WAV-files, Don't know if you've ever used Konqueror, but if you go to the address "audiocd:/", it gives you a load of folders like MP3 and OGG and FLAC, along with a wav file for each track. So you can either copy the files as WAV, or go into one of the folders and copy out MP3, OGG, etc. It's just that Konqueror does the extraction/conversion for you.
Which, from memory, is different that Win98. IIRC, Win98 used to present CDs as 1KB cda files. I could be wrong, though... >> Oh, and I only own a few CDs that have DRM on them. And no, they >> weren't the ones that I've tested. > Ok, it was the first thing that came to mind. > > How far does "cdparanoia" get? That's the tool I generally use and it has > always worked for me. Even with DRM'd CDs. > > -- > Joost How very odd. As soon as I put the CD into the drive, I get the same raft of error messages in /var/log/messages. But when I run 'cdparanoia "1"', it starts outputting to cdda.wav as normal. Now why would cdparanoia work, even though the kernel doesn't seem to like the CD? Does this tell us anything that might help me play the CDs? Jake Moe