"Alaric Ravenhall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> I put in a data cd and I can access the drive with the icon. I put in a
> music cd, it says "you do not have the right to access this drive." Of
> course, I checked permissions. I tried it logged on as root. no go. I
> gave my user and group all permmissions. No difference. HOWEVER, XMMS
> can play my music cd. So can cd player and anything else that plays
> music. What's up? I should be able to view the tracks on the cd through
> Konquerer.
A music cd basically can't be seen as a "block device" since there is no
information to randomly access the data. (no CRC, etc)
Under Windows (or under XMMS) you'll be able to see "fake files" that
represent each tracks but which do not hold any data byt themselves.
That's a trick to make the selection of the tracks easier, nothing more.
So under a normal file browser or in a shell, trying to access to the
medium and to see its directory contents will just lead to a failure.
Under Beos, there is another trick that make the music tracks appearing as
music files, but that doesn't exist under Linux for the moment (it must go
in the kernel, and it's subject to discussions because audio extracting is
not straightforward, e.g. there is not an universal method that works 100%
of the time).
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Guillaume Cottenceau -- Distribution Developer for MandrakeSoft
http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
