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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