now I did it ..

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Saturday 19 March 2005 11:19 pm, Mike Medai wrote:
> I tried the KDE user group manager thingy adding my username to anything
> that seemed suitable such as Audio and CDRom .. but it didn't fix the
> problem even after restarting KDE.  However, the icon in Konqueror has
> changed in that it is now a churning gear wheel instead of a static icon.

The reason I said the "disk" group is that that is the group associated with 
your CD devices, not CD or Audio Though, it's probably also helpful on a 
desktop system for you to be in those groups as well.

> This on the other hand had positive results!  As root I can access the
> audiocd:/ area and yank the .mp3 files off the CD.  Wahoooo!
That's good news.  That means it's permissions only. Try adding yourself to 
the disk group to see if that works.

> Btw, is it possible that some of the CD's that I'm messing around with
> are old enough that they don't have .mp3 files encoded on them?  Some of
> these CD's are from back in the late 80's (Yes, I'm still hanging onto
> my old vinyls too!!  That is another project that is coming to be
> happening later this year, I hope.)
The MP3 files aren't actually on the CD.  When you view an Audio CD in 
Konqueror with audiocd:/, it shows those folders for the different audio 
formats, but they don't really exist.  It's translating on the fly the CD 
audio tracks into whichever format you have.  It looks up the CD Name, 
Artist, Title information all from CDDB, which is an online database of CD 
information, or from FreeDB, which is the same basic thing.  When you "copy" 
an MP3 file off your CD now, it's literally ripping the digital audio off, 
converting it to MP3 (with lame) or OGG or FLAC, etc, and saving it as the 
CDDB-generated filename so as to make sense.  It also fills in all the 
appropriate blanks in the MP3 id3 (identification) tags for you.  It just 
hides all lthat functionality behind "copying" the file off the disc.

Anyway, the point is, all that CD has on it is digital audio.  It doesn't have 
the MP3s or the OGGs, so it doesn't matter how old the disc is.

-N