On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 14:19 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/10/2011 01:40 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > Audio cd's don't usually mount at all. You should be able to put them > > in and run your media playing application and it should see the cd and > > let you play it. There will not be anything on the desktop however. > > Yes. We went through this same discussion several months ago when I had > a similar difficulty. (BTW, it went away again as suddenly and > inexplicably as it came.) Now, I get an icon on the desktop labeled > "Audio Disc" with, among other things, an option to mount the volume. > It doesn't auto-play because I have that disabled, and I can't use > software to eject it unless I mount it, but aside from that, it works > fine. Sound Juicer can't read the tracks unless I mount it, and doesn't > find the track info, but I think that's a problem with the specific CD. > > Yes, in the strictest sense audio CDs don't really mount, but the system > (or maybe the DE) does something with them that allows you to use them > as though they were, and it generally calls it mounting. For most of > us, it walks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck so we > see no reason not to call it a duck. There was a time when I'd have > agreed that we shouldn't call it "mounting," but I've learned[1] over > the years that most people don't want to know about the messy details > that some of us[2] love so much, they just want it to work. > > [1]I hate to keep throwing out all that tech support experience I > have[3], but this time it's relevant. > [2]Including me, I'll admit. > [3]For those coming in late, 7.5 years at an ISP, plus several months at > another company where I demonstrated why I don't normally do hardware > support. Again, it does not mount which it should not. I don't see the cd icon and it does not play. -- ======================================================================= QOTD: "My shampoo lasts longer than my relationships." ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
