Comment 4 for bug 501207

By what I have read from other posts and bugs with similar problems, it seems to me that the most relevant contributing cause is the make and model of the optical drive. Mine is a

PIONEER
    model: DVD-RW DVR-118L
    revision: 1.02

PATA / ATAPI drive (although another poster also had similar issues with a SATA drive.

The puzzling thing is that this drive will read and burn data disks (both CDs and DVDs) and video DVDs just fine. And vlc will play audio CD (but is not able to display the artist / track info which seems to be at the crux of the problem.)

Also, attached is a gdb-output which I thought might be helpful in diagnostic.

I would be willing to bet that only those with PIONEER optical drives are experiencing this problem. Also, FWIW I also have a second hard drive connected to the same IDE cable as the optical drive (which works fine and should not make a difference in this small issue.)

Does anyone know if there is a special module and/or drivers requiring installation in order for all functions of this device to work properly?