can't play audio CD

[aschuring]

Binary package hint: kdemultimedia

I must say I'm more than a bit disheartened to see bugs like #121177 marked invalid, as I stumbled across this bug today for the first time, with a fully up-to-date 10.04 install. I don't care whether the reason is "Amarok doesn't play audio CDs", or "Amarok doesn't support kioslaves", or "KSCD can play discs just fine", the original bug is still there.

When I insert an audio CD, I get a helpful autorun dialog, which gives me the following options:
- rip CD iwth k3b
- copy CD with k3b
- open disc with Dolphin
- play disc with Amarok

No matter which of my 2 disc drives I use, Amarok keeps reporting "0 tracks" (when I press eject, it does open the correct tray). And when I choose "open disc with Dolphin", it shows no tracks and reports "failed to read" in the statusbar. Only k3b handles the disc well, but that's useless to me because I don't want to rip. I want to play.

Some reports mention the ability to change the device path to the cdrom drive in Amarok's settings, but:
- that option does not appear to exist in this version (2.3.0)
- the whole point of using a DE is the ability to be blissfully unaware of device files

Of course, the CD plays just fine with vlc.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Well then. This needs to be fixed in Amarok. Closing this report in favor of the KDE one, please refer there for status updates. Thanks.