amarok 2.5 cannot play CDs

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Even if this https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266412 reports that the bug is fixed and that your user needs to be in the 'cdrom' group, still, in Kubuntu Precise, amarok is not able to play audio CDs. The CD appears in the local music section but with 0 tracks... all the other players I tried, clementine, vlc, audacious can play CDs...

[hefeweiz3n (philschmidt)]

Version: 2.5-git (using KDE 4.7.3)
OS: Linux

Entries of an AudioCD in the Playlist are greyed out (as for Tracks that are currently not available). The CD is in the Drive and Amarok can play the tracks but this prevents Amarok from automatic track changing.

Phonon-Backend: VLC

Note: With GStreamer the tracks don't even play.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Insert Audio CD, Add tracks to playlist.

Actual Results:
Tracks are greyed out.

Expected Results:
Tracks are marked as available.

OS: Linux (x86_64) release 3.0-ARCH
Compiler: gcc

[hefeweiz3n (philschmidt)]

Set the wrong version, I meant to select 2.4-git, not 2.5-git...

[Myriam Schweingruber (myriam)]

I will leave it to 2.5-git, as this will be changed any day now anyway.

[Nick (nickharlow)]

I have a similar problem to this on 2.5.0 using Fedora 16 (Linux (x86_64) release 3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64). Everything seems to work normal, if I double click on the tracks they will play, but it won't play through a playlist automatically.

[Myriam Schweingruber (myriam)]

Nick: your description doesn't seem to match this bug. Please try another phonon backend, I guess you use the gstreamer backend, right?

[Myriam Schweingruber (myriam)]

Philipp: do these tracks have some special characters?

[hefeweiz3n (philschmidt)]

Myriam: No they don't

Nick: If your tracks are greyed out too then this is the right problem. With automatic track changing I meant that amarok followed the playlist.

[Nick (nickharlow)]

I am using the gstreamer backend, but it worked fine in previous versions. It only does with with Audio CDs, music from the local hard drive works just fine when added to a playlist.

[Myriam Schweingruber (myriam)]

It could be worth to try the phonon-backend-vlc, just to make sure it is not backend related.

[Nick (nickharlow)]

I get the same problem using the vlc-backend.

[Myriam Schweingruber (myriam)]

Thank you for the feedback.

[cespinal (cespinal17)]

I can confirm this bug. It occurs with both gstreamer and VLC backends. Songs show greyed out. I can play one at a time, but the playlist will skip them automatically.

[Bart-cerneels (bart-cerneels)]

Git commit dbee445a5a48acb11cc4d9af94f7c5e705c7d2d2 by Bart Cerneels.
Committed on 15/02/2012 at 09:51.
Pushed by shanachie into branch 'master'.

Don't mark audio-CD tracks as unplayable.

They are just always enabled until we have a good way to detect the
correct CD is present.
FIXED-IN: 2.6

M +1 -0 ChangeLog
M +2 -7 src/core-impl/collections/audiocd/AudioCdMeta.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/amarok/dbee445a5a48acb11cc4d9af94f7c5e705c7d2d2

[Myriam Schweingruber (myriam)]

*** Bug 297192 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Myriam Schweingruber (myriam)]

*** Bug 297745 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Danaivehr (danaivehr)]

*** Bug 298645 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Myriam Schweingruber (myriam)]

*** Bug 285877 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Dangersofpants (dangersofpants)]

Bug still persists. 2.5 here with phonon-vlc-backend

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Fix released to the development version of Kubuntu 12.10.