audiocd:/ doesn't work; Device Notifier doesn't recognise audio CDs properly

[Anj Tuesday]

Most audio-CD-related applications work as expected (CDDB lookup, playing, ripping) -- Asunder, kscd, Sound-Juicer, k3b, soundKonverter and others.

But the Device Notifier widget shows inserted audio CDs as "CD-ROM" rather than "Audio CD" or artist/title (I'm not sure what it's supposed to do). There's always just a single available action: "Play Audio CD with Amarok". This action appears whether or not Amarok is actually installed. Selecting it will load Amarok, but Amarok won't play audio CDs.

And In Dolphin, the Places sidebar likewise shows audio CDs as "CD-ROM". Going to "audiocd:/" results in a location (breadcrumb view) of "> audiocd: > audiocd > audiocd > audiocd". There're two folders: "Full CD" is empty, and "Information" contains a series of "CDDB Information.txt" files, all 448 bytes large or just under. Trying to open them produces an Error dialogue box saying "The file or folder CDDB Information_4.txt (or whichever number it may be) does not exist."

Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
Release: 11.10

kdemultimedia:
  Installed: 4:4.7.1-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 4:4.7.1-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 4:4.7.1-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[deactivated account (iethah2du2so1eih-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm on Kubuntu Oneiric, amd64.
Audio cds sometimes work if they are present at boot. Otherwise, audio cds are unusable for me at the moment.

[ultrajej (ultrajej)]

Kubuntu 11.10 64bits

The OS is not handling well audio CD on many applications. No issue by a double click from Dolphin when using SMPlayer.

>KDE applications
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- Amarok cannot see the audio CD from the local music. It cannot find it when I browse for folder.
   Using the following (kio?) link show the CD files as I can see on Dolphin: audiocd:/?device=/dev/sr0
   Unfortunately selecting any file does nothing. The version 2.50 is suppose to fix this issue.
- Juk can browse my places and see the audio CD but unfortunately, I cannot play any song as it says that I can only select local files.
- SMPlayer return the same message.
- Bangarang: see an empty audio CD
- Kaffeine can play the first song only.
- KsCD does nothing.
- Kplayer and KMPlayer failed too.

> Other applications
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- VLC: is working fine with audio CD (Peripheral/disk)
- Audacious can see the CD audio on places but a double click on it show the following message:
   Could not mount Audio Disc
   Location is not mountable
- Quod libet is bugging the same way as Audacious
- Clementine can see the CD but a double click on it does nothing

I believe that is an issue moving from HAL to UDEV... an Kubuntu issue. (according to other forums)
The same CD is played without issue on Fedora 16 on both Amarok and KsCD (and VLC of course).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.