New Music CDs and Linux?
Kenneth E. Lussier
ken.lussier at zuken.com
Wed Feb 12 15:40:41 EST 2003
As root, add yourself to the /dev/audio.
C-Ya,
Kenny
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 15:25, Michael Costolo wrote:
> This weekend I purchased two music CDs. I tried to listen to each of them in my
> Linux box at home without success. I attempted to open the cd by clicking the
> desktop icon but got errors like "you do not have permission to enter /mnt/cdrom."
> I then attempted to mount the cd from the command line interface which returned no
> error, but any attempt to cd there gave me an IO error. I forget the exact message
> it gave me but I can retry it tonight if anyone deems it necessary. (I can
> open/read data cds just fine however.)
>
> Inspection of the CDs themselves revealed a suspicious looking first track making me
> think that perhaps they were the copy-protected CDs that you could use a black
> marker on to un-protect. However, I then dropped them in my Dell Inspiron 5000
> (Win2K) at work. In this computer, they appear to be normal audio CDs. I can see
> and listen to the tracks as one would expect.
>
> Does anyone have any insight as to what is happening?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Mike-
>
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