How to play an audio CD?

[Michael Schwendt]

On 23/03/07, Anne Wilson wrote:
>
> There is the problem, then.  I can set the device, but it has a Directory
> setting of /mnt/cdrom.  This doesn't exist, of course, and since audio disks
> are not mounted, there is no /media entry either.  What do you have in that
> field?

In Audacious, Audio CDs are accessed via the device you enter. Menu >
Playback > Play CD  or  Playlist > Add > Add CD

The mount point can be used to for data cds which contain audio files.
I think xmms used it to detect when the user wants to play an audio
cd.

> It's a gnome app, of course, and I'm using kde.  It's just possible that this
> isn't properly working with kde.  Pity, as aging eyes could use the help :-)

It uses GTK+ 2 aka GTK2, which doesn't turn it into a gnome app. ;)