I’ve recently installed openSuse 11.4 64bit with KDE 4.6 and that’s when the trouble started. If I put a data or mp3 cd in the drive it can be mounted. Simple audio cds refuse to mount, giving me only the option to play on one of the audio players. Since I wanted to move some music to the computer I’ve had to resort to windows to copy files then transfer them. How can I force KDE/Suse to behave the way I want or do I have to revert to an earlier version with KDE3.5?
I suspected that System Settings/Removable Devices was where I needed to be but nothing I did worked. So then I tried playing with System Settings/Device Actions and again nothing seemed to work (though the help is pretty obscure as well).
I can’t mount the CD manually,I get this (using su -c “mount etc”
mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: /dev/sr0: can’t read superblock
I am rapidly getting sick of KDE4 and openSuse and I’ve been a fan of Suse/KDE for over 10 years
On 09/13/2011 09:06 PM, alb22 wrote:
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> I am rapidly getting sick of KDE4 and openSuse and I’ve been a fan of
> Suse/KDE for over 10 years
and, it has changed over those 10 years…used to i had to mount an
audio CD manually just to listen to it…and if i accidentally forgot to
unmount it i might have to stand on my head to regain control of my cd
player…today i just put the disk in the tray and KDE’s “Device
Notifier” automatically offers me a variety of things i might want to do
with the disk–“Play with Amarok” or “Play with Kafeen” came by default,
but if want more all i have to do is right click on the “Device
Notifier”, find the “Device Actions” section and pick from a long list
of options to be automatically offered…(one of many is “Open with File
Manager” where you could ‘force’ it to copy files from CD to hard
disk…or you could set it to offer “Create file project with K3b” and
then use that to rip mp3s, or duplicate the disk, or or or or or…
no forcing and no “sick of” required…
if you don’t like KDE4 then don’t use it…i stuck with KDE3 until last
February and held my nose and moved to KDE4 and have found it to so much
more capable complete…yep, it requires some effort to learn as lot of
the capability is in the settings…
i DO know it is a pain to have something you know and understand ripped
out from under you and throw you into the land of new (all over again)
but there it is…
you can use KDE4, or you can install KDE3, or gnome2 or gnome3 or LXDE,
or Xfce or or or or
but, if you wanna give KDE4 a go, have a read or three:
Audio CDs don’t have a filesystem like data CDs. They just contain music tracks. So you don’t mount them. If you want to copy them, use a ripping tool.
[QUOTE=DenverD;2383940]On 09/13/2011 09:06 PM, alb22 wrote:
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> >I am rapidly getting sick of KDE4 and openSuse and I’ve been a fan of
> >Suse/KDE for over 10 years
>and, it has changed over those 10 years…
I agree, and I remember with horror things like knowing monitor refresh rates! The problem is that with openSuse 11.2, Ubuntu etc. I could mount an audio CD to see wav, cda etc files. In fact I was very happy with 11.2, but decided to move to 11.4 for a number of reasons. Then it has been one hardware or software issue after another. Almost all are now sorted (though KDE still doesn’t quite behave as per the guides), but not the CD one.
I would prefer not to use Ubuntu or spend time with Pardus, Slackware since I have other things to do, but unless I can sort this out I may be forced to.
Incidentally, the links don’t address the issue of how to reconfigure to get the behaviour you want, at least in this respect. I’d already been through those and more besides. It’s been a couple of months now.
On 09/14/2011 10:26 AM, alb22 wrote:
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> I would prefer not to use Ubuntu or spend time with Pardus, Slackware
> since I have other things to do, but unless I can sort this out I may be
> forced to.
my rule (for myself): Use what works.
so, if Ubuntu or whatever works for you, have at it! they all cost the
same (the time it takes to learn how to coax it into doing what you
want…and then the amount of frustration each new ‘upgrade’ brings
as it again requires time to learn the new stuff, and then . . .)
i booted it (and Debian, and a few others) while trying to decide what
to do about the death of KDE3…
now running 11.4 and KDE4 i think i made the right choice for me, you
need to do the same, for you.
–
DD
openSUSE®, the “German Automobiles” of operating systems
My understanding is that this statement isn’t accurate… Although correct that the layout of the content is completely different, any and all optical devices are typically mounted as a loop device. If the content is data laid out on a random access file system, then the loop device is mounted as a “loop block device” which is configured with disk blocks like a “real” physical disk. But, content on an optical disk is laid out differently, instead of blocks, it’s a single long spiral from the outer edge to the center of the optical disk. Because data on an optical disk is laid out sequentially, a “streaming loop device” is mounted.
So, it appears that you did not mount your streaming loop device correctly, your command only mounts a block device. Numerous articles on the Internet should provide complete help and commands, suggest search terms “linux mount cdrom” – Of course the instructions for mounting a CDROM would apply to any optical device including DVDROMs, etc.
But, let’s also ignore everything above I posted for a moment, it sounds to me from your original post that your device was mounted but you seem to not be able to access the contents of your optical drive correctly. You didn’t describe what app you’re using to view the files or tracks individually, are you using Dolphin or something else? This sounds to me very much like an application issue and not a system (ie mounting) issue.
Some applications try to make the audio CD look like a filesystem by presenting you with tracks, etc. But it’s just an appearance.
That is correct. The Dolphin/Konqueror ‘audiocd:/’ kioslave can be used to present the CD tracks as files, but the device is not mounted (as a block device) as ‘fdisk -l’ will confirm.
I assume that shouldn’t be a problem, unless you’re trying to write to a non-block device with Dolphin/Konqueror.
You shouldn’t have a problem reading (ie using the optical disk as a source) to copy unless there is a bug in the app.
I assume that shouldn’t be a problem, unless you’re trying to write to a non-block device with Dolphin/Konqueror.
Yes, well it goes without saying that if you’re using ‘audiocd:/’ to examine tracks as ‘files’ on a audio CD, then writing will not be possible anyway. From what the OP has mentioned, it appears that there was a misunderstanding that this could be mounted like a block device filesystem can be.
Simple audio cds refuse to mount, giving me only the option to play on one of the audio players. Since I wanted to move some music to the computer I’ve had to resort to windows to copy files then transfer them. How can I force KDE/Suse to behave the way I want or do I have to revert to an earlier version with KDE3.5?
Unlike KDE3.5 (IIRC), no ‘Audio CD’ icon will appear when an audio CD is inserted, however AFAIU, it is possible to modify the ‘Device Notifier Settings’>>‘Device Actions’ so that an option to view the contents is possible using the ‘audiocd:/’ command. In any case, I just type ‘audiocd:/’ in the location bar to view/copy the files.
The CD always contains a single spiral whether it’s audio or data. Only the frames are laid out different. That’s why seek takes longer than other optical media that cater better for random access.
And in fact it isn’t really necessary to mount data CDs to access the data, isoinfo can extract files but people seldom know about this. Just like mcopy does for floppy disks.