On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 15:28, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Colleen Beamer wrote: >> >> On 10/22/11 04:14, Dale wrote: >>> >>> Mick wrote: >>>> >>>> On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 01:19:15 Colleen Beamer wrote: >>>>> >>>>> This is solved. >>>>> >>>>> The solution came from posting to KDE forums. >>>>> >>>>> It was a configuration issue: >>>>> >>>>> In System Settings, I had to select "Device Actions", "Play Audio CD >>>>> with KsCD, select Edit, select "the devices property Available Content >>>>> must equal Audio, choose "Property Match"for the parameter type, >>>>> "Optical Disk" for the Device type, "Available Content" for the Value >>>>> name and Equals Audio. >>>>> >>>>> That did the trick! >>>> >>>> Thanks for letting us know! I recall having problems in the past >>>> with kscd on >>>> a KDE desktop and I couldn't remember if I ever fixed it. Now I know >>>> how. ;-) >>>> >>> I finally got mine to open too. I did a emerge -e world since I could >>> tell it was just some dep that got missed. Anyway, is it just me or >>> is KSCD just got plain ugly? >> >> Yeah, used to be much easier to use. Like I said in a previous post, >> I'm a bit anal and this bugged me 'cause I've always had it working >> before. For me, kaffeine works fine and I've discovered that I like it >> better than kscd anyway. >> >> Colleen > > I use smplayer for mine. It's nothing fancy but it plays music. I clicked > on the pop up and tried to play a CD with amarock, (sp?), and I never could > get it to even play the CD. It wanted to build some database or something. > I'm in the mood to get rid of that thing. > > I'll check into this Kaffeine thing tho. >
amarok And why not just use mplayer? We're gentoo users, so it's expected that at least one xterm is active. So just ^+T (for +=shift) and run mplayer. Also, amarok segfaults on my box on startup. Couldn't be arsed to look at the backtrace.
