now I did it ..

[Mike Medai]

neil at jenandneil.com wrote:

>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.
>  
>
Oops, forgot to mention that I had also chosen Disk .. but since I saw 
that Audio was not toggled, I toggled that one too.  But, still I cannot 
access the CD via Konqueror as a regular user .. the icon churns for a 
lenghty while, then reverts to the static music Cd icon.

> <>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.
>
>  
>
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"The MP3 files aren't actually on the CD."

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Which expalins why when I "copy" the .mp3 files from the CD the 
throughput is so much slower than when copying the .wav files.

But, that then also means that I somehow set up Lame or CDparanoia to 
work somewhat?

Mike