cannot open music/audio cd's

santotomas · posted: 2014-11-08 09:27

I just installed the stable version of AntiX 13.2 on this formerly Win XP machine. I'm in love with this distro but I have just a fews small issues one being that I cannot open hear my music cd's. When I examine the drive in SpaceFM and side click on the device it gives me the following message box:

"missing codepage or helper program, or other error. In some cases useful info is found in syslog- try dmesg/ tail or so."

Anybody have a tip to correct this?

Thank you all for your help in advance!!!

jdmeaux1952 · posted: 2014-11-08 11:55

When you need help, answers are never too far away. First things first! You need to open a terminal screen, make it WIDE, and type in"inxi -F" (without the quotes). This will give us info on your machine (sound card/chip and driver, amount of memory, etc). Do a Copy-and-Paste, and post it here so all can see. Then we can start to work on it.

Have you done a search here on the forum for your sound card?

fatmac · posted: 2014-11-08 12:45

Music CDs don't have a regular filesystem that can be viewed.

If you are not getting 'sound', try running alsamixer in a terminal & make sure it isn't muted.

dolphin_oracle · posted: 2014-11-08 13:01

trying opening the disk in either gnome-mplayer (which has an option disc menu option) or in xmms (which uses a"Play Directory" option). the device would be either /dev/cdrom or/dev/sr0 (or sr1, etc...)

you can set an auto-run feature in spacefm by setting the"On Audio CD" option to either"xmms %v or"gnome-mplayer %v". The feature is a little weird though because you still get the mount error, but then the app should launch.

santotomas · posted: 2014-11-10 10:57

jdmeaux1952 wrote:When you need help, answers are never too far away. First things first! You need to open a terminal screen, make it WIDE, and type in"inxi -F" (without the quotes). This will give us info on your machine (sound card/chip and driver, amount of memory, etc). Do a Copy-and-Paste, and post it here so all can see. Then we can start to work on it.

Have you done a search here on the forum for your sound card?

I did an ini-F and here it is:

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System:    Host: usual362 Kernel: 3.7.10-antix.5-486-smp i686 (32 bit) 
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.7 Distro: antiX-13.2_386-full Luddite 4 November 2013
Machine:   Mobo: MICRO-STAR model: MS-7211 version: 4.1 Bios: Phoenix version: 6.00 PG date: 06/09/1906
CPU:       Single core Intel Celeron CPU (-UP-) cache: 256 KB flags: (lm pae sse sse2 sse3) clocked at 2661.407 MHz 
Graphics:  Card: VIA CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M800 CE/VN800 Graphics [S3 UniChrome Pro] 
           X.org: 1.12.4 drivers: openchrome (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) tty size: 80x28 Advanced Data: N/A for root 
Audio:     Card: VIA VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller driver: snd_via82xx Sound: ALSA ver: k3.7.10-antix.5-486-smp
Network:   Card: VIA VT6102 [Rhine-II] driver: via-rhine 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:16:17:76:f8:12
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 82.3GB (3.7% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: ExcelStor_Techno size: 82.3GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 74G used: 2.9G (5%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 2.17GB used: 0.10GB (5%) fs: swap 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 70.0C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 86 Uptime: 3:53 Memory: 232.2/436.2MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 1.9.16

Hope you can get me out of this one as I cannot access Synaptic either it tells me there was an error in installing Dropbox (dpkg).

dolphin_oracle · posted: 2014-11-10 11:34

Hope you can get me out of this one as I cannot access Synaptic either it tells me there was an error in installing Dropbox (dpkg).

the nautilus-dropbox package from the repos is currently broken upstream. The debian downloads directly from dropbox.com are OK.

here's how to unlock synaptic/apt.

1. from the terminal, go root

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su

2. kill any dpkg and dropbox processes that might be running

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pkill dropbox
pkill dpkg

3. reconfigure dpkg. When the dropbox download starts, press CNTRL - C before the counter gets to 100%. This part is important.

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dpkg --configure -a

when the dropbox download starts, press CNTRL - C before the counter gets to 100%. This part is important.

4. Now that you are back at the prompt, use apt to remove nautilus-dropbox

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apt-get purge nautilus-dropbox -f

5. you can download a working install package directly from dropbox.com and install with gdebi.

santotomas · posted: 2014-11-11 07:28

dolphin_oracle,

Thank you much! I got Synaptic unlocked finally with your instructions!

Back to my music cd problem. I tried opening it with all the apps available on this distro. I also installed sound juicer, which I tried and liked from before I installed this stable version of AntiX on my PC. It played my cd's fine- great audio quality on sound juicer. But now I cannot get it to play on any of the players. I believe my sound cards are just fine as I didn't have any problems before.

Any hints? Thanks again.

santotomas · posted: 2014-11-11 11:20

dolphin_oracle wrote:trying opening the disk in either gnome-mplayer (which has an option disc menu option) or in xmms (which uses a"Play Directory" option). the device would be either /dev/cdrom or/dev/sr0 (or sr1, etc...)

you can set an auto-run feature in spacefm by setting the"On Audio CD" option to either"xmms %v or"gnome-mplayer %v". The feature is a little weird though because you still get the mount error, but then the app should launch.

YES! YES! YES! I persisted until I got my favorite Sarah Vaughn CD to open in gnome mplayer. Beautiful sound. This points up another problem I've been having since this PC was a Win XP machine. But,...right now I'm enjoying"Black Coffee" too much. Groovin. I'll resume the thread later.

Thank youoooooo.....! __{{emoticon}}__ __{{emoticon}}__

jdmeaux1952 · posted: 2014-11-11 14:25

Because your machine was an XP machine now means you have improved it by installing antiX=13.2. __{{emoticon}}__

fatmac · posted: 2014-11-11 18:11

That's known as upgrading....... __{{emoticon}}__

santotomas · posted: 2014-12-01 07:00

jdmeaux1952 wrote:Because your machine was an XP machine now means you have improved it by installing antiX=13.2. __{{emoticon}}__

You are so right! This machine never worked as well as when it was Win XP. Even my Skype transmission is much better.