[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux CD player recommendation

[David Stanaway]

Have you looked at gnome-volume-manager ?

Description: GNOME daemon to auto-mount and manage media devices
 gnome-volume-manager is a GNOME daemon that acts as a policy agent in
 top of the kernel, udev, d-bus and HAL. It listens to HAL events and
 reacts with user-configurable actions. Currently it supports automount
 of new media and hot-plugged devices, autorun, autoplay for CDs and
 DVDs, and automatic camera management. It is expected to be simple and
 free of polling and other evil hacks.

Needs udev and a 2.6 kernel.

Just works (tm) :P

Well, works for me.


Leroy Tennison wrote:
> Earlier I emailed about wanting to use both CD devices in my PC to play 
> CDs (running CentOS 4.4 using KDE).  The (correct) answer was that KsCD 
> pointed to a specific device and the suggestion was to try the Gnome CD 
> player if I wanted to use the second CD device.  Having tried that and 
> dealt with some issues it sort-of works.  I can play a CD with Gnome's 
> CD player (gnome-cd 2.8) but:
> 
>    1. On startup it defaults to a data format.
>    2. It plays only one track.
>    3. There doesn't appear to be any way to configure it differently
>    4. Help? - What help?
> 
> Before I invest a lot of time fighting with Gnome-cd or trying out who 
> knows how many other alternatives before I find something acceptable, 
> I'm looking for recommendations or advice from someone who's "been there 
> - done that".
> 
> 
> If Gnome-cd can be made to work where's the configuration file and what 
> do i need to put in it?
> 
> Any recommendations of a CD player which can:
> 
>    1. Recognize the CD type or can be configured to default to a music
>       CD (essential)
>    2. Play all of the tracks automatically (essential)
>    3. Can auto-start/play at CD insertion (highly desirable)
>    4. Can check all CD devices for music CDs (would really be nice)
>    5. Allows selection of tracks to play (would be really nice for those
>       CDs which have "dog songs" mixed in with the goodies)
>    6. Can auto-replay after the last song (nice to have)
>    7. Can sing and dance at the same time (OK, OK, I'm pressing my
>       luck... ;-) )
> 
> Thanks for any and all replies
> 
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