Thanks Scott and Gary. The problem is now largely sorted out as I have got VLC media player to play audio cds now by opening it and asking it to play the cd in the cd drive as Gary suggested. I have also discovered how to make VLC display the tracks on the cd. Still if I go to dolphin it lists the audio cd on the left but it does not respond in any way if you click on it so you cant see the individual tracks on the cd. I have found that if I put a cd of photos in the drive then the name of the cd appears on the left and when I click on that the individual photo files appear. So it is looking like I can do most of what I would like to which is great.
I did try to do the install that Scott suggested as it would be nice to have the audio tracks listed from within Dolphin although not essential. It seems not to have worked. The following is the response I got: steve@debian:~$ su Password: root@debian:/home/steve# apt-get -y install kdemultimedia-kio-plugins Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: lame The following NEW packages wl be installed: kdemultimedia-kio-plugins 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 81 not upgraded. Need to get 128 kB of archives. After this operation, 466 kB of additional disk space will be used. WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! kdemultimedia-kio-plugins E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes root@debian:/home/steve#t would be nice to have a list of tracks on the cd but maybe not essential. Thanks again to you both for your help. I am pretty happy with the situation now but open to any more suggestions or comments. Best wishes Steve On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> wrote: > On 28/10/14 03:01 AM, Steve Greig wrote: >> >> If I put a CD into my computer it appears in Dolphin on the left hand side >> where it sais 'Audio CD'. However if I click on this the contents do not >> appear in the main window of Dolphin. Also I cant play the CD or find any >> other way of accessing it. This applies to other CDs not just Audio. In the >> past I have accessed CDs without problems on this same computer. >> >> It may be relevant that I often get an error message something like 'apt >> update cant access CD drive' (I cant remember the exact wording). >> >> Any help would be very much appreciated. Steve > > > It's possible that the device has failed. Optical devices do go bad from > time to time. > > Another problem could be that /dev link to the optical drive is missing or > doesn't point to the correct device. > > What happens if you open a media player and tell it to play an audio CD? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/544fd65b.1020...@torfree.net > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CA+AcE6fOkbRU+=8kpz1k5hozo0ksryosxfrv80cmjs5as1g...@mail.gmail.com
