Playing audio CDs no longer works.

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Wed Feb 7 11:02:25 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 07 February 2007 00:03, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 23:00 +0000, Ian Malone wrote:
> > Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > This F6 related and is frustrating. One of the first things I did after
> > > installing FC6 to test sound is to get audio CDs to play and they did.
> > >
> > > Now it no longer works. When grip or totem open to play the CD they
> > > report that they can't find as CD to play. despite the fact that the
> > > audio CD icon appears on the desktop.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have an idea about what might have happened and how to fix
> > > it?
> > >
> > > Let me say for those who urged me to do it I have files a bugzilla but
> > > I would like to know if anyone on the list has any ideas. This had to
> > > be something that happened as the result of an update but I don't know
> > > which one.
> >
> > FWIW this used to happen to me on FC5, and I can't remember it happening
> > on FC6.  Never really got to the bottom of it.  Do you happen to have
> > two optical drives attached?
>
> This particular machine has a CD read-write drive and a CD read only
> drive.
> Only the first drive is connected to the sound card.
>
> I could have sworn someone reported on this problem in the last few
> months but I can't find the resolution of the problem if there was one.
>
Try it in the other drive.  Digital playing doesn't require the sound-card 
cable.  I'm not sure why, but I've had this problem with both audio-CDs and 
DVDs.  Sometimes one drive has worked, then sometimes the other.  I suspect 
that config files are being affected by updates, but I could be way out.

Anne
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