New Music CDs and Linux?

[Kenneth E. Lussier]

OK, that came out as a cross between add yourself to the audio group an
change permissions of /dev/cdrom. It's been a looong day ;-)

C-Ya,
Kenny

On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 15:40, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> 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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Kenneth E. Lussier
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