I put an audio CD into my cd player and select "Play AudioCD" in the XMMS menu and XMMS does nothing. I have the cd directory set to /mnt/cdrom and I have /mnt/cdrom set in /etc/fstab to be the mount point for the /dev/sr0 device. This is an external USB 2.0 cdrom drive. This is XMMS 1.2.10 emerge --info Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686 Transmeta Efficeon(tm) Processor TM8000 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.14.90.0.8-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.2-r7 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.21-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -mcpu=pentium4 -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -mcpu=pentium4 -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac acpi alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 bzlib cdr cpdflib crypt cscope curl dga dio directfb divx4linux doc dri dts dv dvb dvd eds emboss encode ethereal exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac fortran ftp gb gd gdbm gif glut gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile icq idn imagemagick imap imlib isdnlog jack java jpeg junit ladcca lcms lesstif libg++ libwww lua mad mikmod mime mmx mmxext mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nis offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcmcia pcre pda pdflib perl png pnp posix pppd quicktime radeon readline scanner sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga sysvipc tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vim-with-x vorbis win32codecs xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
have you tried with a internal cdrom drive ? it works here. I don't have any usb cdrom drive.
Unfortunately I don't have an internal cd-rom drive. This is a Sharp Actius MM-20 ultra-light laptop. It doesn't have enough room for an internal cd-rom drive. I would like to say that the usb cd-rom drive is just fine for movies and data, so I can't understand why it would have problems with music.
Audio CD's are different than data CD's, you need to read the device rather than the files on the device. Try this: 'emerge -atuD xmms-cdread' to read audio cd's. This will show up as a plug in when you run xmms via 'Ctl-P' Audio I/O Plugins tab 'AudioCD Reader 0.* [libcdread.so]' Click the configure button in the Preferences window 'Input Plugins' section with 'AudioCD Reader' selected. Ensure that in the Ouput tab of the 'CD Reader Configuration' window has output mode of 'Read Digital CD Audio' selected. To play an audio cd, play /dev/cdrom (or /dev/sr0 in your case if you don't have a sym link to /dev/cdrom) as a file.
this doesn't look a real bug and xmms is really old to support usb drives out of box. So i suggest you to try what have been told on comment #3.
