I'm now able to play audio CDs and would like to say thanks to every who gave advice. I ended up solving the problem by giving "others" permission to read cdrom. Though I do realize this may not be the best solution. I think I'll try playing around with groups like David suggested. Though I didn't realize you could be in multiple groups.
Also a lot of you mentioned mixers. Right now I don't have any mixers installed, and I'm not entirely sure if I have mixer support compiled into the kernel (though if having /dev/mixer means I do, then I do). I would assume that if I do have mixer support all that I have to do is apt-get one. Anyone have some good suggestions for a mixer? I noticed there was a lot of them listed. And also will a mixer help my crappy sound? Right now everything is pretty low quality compared to playing it in windoze. Though I'm sure I'll figure most of this stuff out once I get back to my machine and have a chance to play around with it. Thanks, Rob Mosher
