No cdrom drives detected

[Eike Thaden]

After migration to Ubuntu 12.04 (AMD64) soundkonverter is unable to find cdrom devices. There are two devices in my system, but there are no links like "/dev/scdX" anymore but only "/dev/srX". As far as I understand "/dev/scdX" links are meant to be used for external cdrom drives only.

[Eike Thaden (ethaden)]

the proposed patch uses /de/srX directly which I can confirm to be working on two of my systems (both with Ubuntu 12.04, AMD64). However further investigations might be neccesary to make external drives visible, too.

[Daniel Faust (hessijames)]

This looks very sane.
Maybe I should also remove the line:

if( deviceList.at(i).contains("sr") || deviceList.at(i).contains("hd") )

I don't know why I wrote it this way anymore but it seems more complicated than it should be.

[Adam Porter (alphapapa)]

Fix Released? The version in Precise is still broken. I guess I'll have to make a symlink in /dev, because /dev/scd0 seems to be hardcoded into sK. If only I could configure it to just use /dev/cdrom...

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[Daniel Faust (hessijames)]

Which version are you speaking of?
I applied the patch in version 1.4.90 (1.5.0 rc1).
You can get the latest version here: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/HessiJames/
And this might also be interesting: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/soundkonverter/+bug/954776

[Adam Porter (alphapapa)]

As I said, the version in Precise needs to be fixed:

soundkonverter:
  Installed: 0.9.94-2
  Candidate: 0.9.94-2
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.94-2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Daniel Faust (hessijames)]

Right, so this is a job for the ubuntu packagers. As I wrote here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/soundkonverter/+bug/954776/comments/3 version 0.9.94 is just hopelessly outdated.

[Daniel Faust (hessijames)]

For everybody who is searching for instructions to install the latest version of soundKonverter, please have a look at the new wiki: https://github.com/HessiJames/soundkonverter/wiki/Installing%20soundKonverter#wiki-precompiled_packages