After a lot of frustration, I gave up on copying an audio CD to another disc for use in my car. So I decided to just insert the CD into my Solus Plasma media machine to listen to the songs. That just caused more frustration, because I can't find any way to play it there.

Dolphin displays "Audio CD" in its list of devices, but neither right-clicking nor left-clicking displays any options for opening it. I couldn't load it into any of the media players, because I could find no way to select the CD as a source.

Does anyone have a good idea I could try next? I really don't want to sit out in the car for an hour or so to hear these tunes.

    WetGeek

    As I might have expected, I found a solution right after I wrote that message. It occurred to me that maybe my Samsung Blu-Ray deck would also play a CD, and it did so, without any complaints.

    I'd still be interested in doing this from Solus, though, if anyone has a suggestion.

      Nothing you do shows you the files/folders and individual mp4's or tracks? I don' think you need another audio player but maybe another file manager?

      You did not name your audio player but did you a try any other player that could open from source?

      I've had this problem with optic drive (cd/dvd) recognition before and it was always a try try again thing. Lint free cloth and vinegar and water have helped me before as well (clean disk) but that's a rare one.

        I don't have the cd/dvd drive for many years. I would just rip CD to the flac format and use a tool to automatically tag the tracks. Maybe MusicBrainz Picard is the right tool for that.

        brent Nothing you do shows you the files/folders and individual mp4's or tracks?

        Not that actually includes the track names. Dolphin doesn't offer that. If I could get that far, I could use k3b to create a new audio CD based on the files.

        To be honest, Windows didn't handle this much better. It ripped the files to my remote share, but it named the album "Various artists," and merged them in with all the other "Various artists" from years ago. I gave up on trying to individually pick out the new files to be burned.

            WetGeek If it's self-created CD's you won't get a thumbnail or a name but you know this. I did so many in my heyday. Even commercially sold various artists cd's I have can't be fetched. I have a rare Verve jazz cd of a smokin' session with Nat King/Buddy Rich/and Lester Young (greatest sax player of all time imho) and not even Itunes (when I used back in the day) could fetch info/art for that.

            I know all this is related to another thread you had. But this part isn't: I wonder if some of these hiccups are related to an era where is was all created Windows and some archaic encoding loses something in cross-platforming? Plus age of product. I don't know.

            Also, it's a nice day to drive your car to the lake, crack a cold one, and turn up the volume, and whip out a lawn chair🙂

                WetGeek To be honest, Windows didn't handle this much better. It ripped the files to my remote share, but it named the album "Various artists," and merged them in with all the other "Various artists" from years ago.

                ----I remember this exactly in media player. Nothing has changed in the last 30 years for MS in that dept. apparently.

                  brent I have a rare Verve jazz cd of a smokin' session with Nat King/Buddy Rich/and Lester Young

                  During my senior year in HS, I played bari sax, cause the school owned one, and nobody else wanted to try marching with it. My nickname that year was Mulligan. Thanks to my years of piano lessons, I had no trouble with the bass clef.

                      WetGeek Bari and tenor two different animals, good for you. Sax keys were not natural to me as clarinet keys (grade school) but that didn't last long. I was no good. Plus I fell in love with the blues harp.

                          brent Sax keys were not natural to me as clarinet keys

                          Just the opposite for me. The "octave key" on a sax moves you up by an octave, so the fingerings are the same. If I remember right, when I tried a clarinet, it only moved you up by a 5th.

                          Plus, flute fingerings are the same as sax fingerings, opening up a whole 'nother adventure. And a flute embouchure is about the same as a horn embouchure, so one won't ruin you for the other. Go figure!

                          Interestingly, the thumb valve on a double horn changes it from F to Bb, similar to a clarinet. I never had a problem with that. Dunno why the clarinet fingering was so hard for me to wrap my brain around.

                              WetGeek when I tried a clarinet, it only moved you up by a 5th.

                              I don't even remember the notes anymore.

                              WetGeek Plus, flute fingerings are the same as sax fingerings, opening up a whole 'nother adventure.

                              I never knew that. I'm going to listen to "Wild Thing" in a whole new light now. Only R&R song I ever heard with a flute solo.

                              WetGeek Dunno why the clarinet fingering was so hard for me to wrap my brain around.

                              Me either!. Channeling childhood memory, I think it was because both hands had similar functions instead of distinguishable functions like other instruments. I think.

                              Hohner Marine Band mouth harps were immune from these complications🙂

                                      brent Hohner Marine Band mouth harps were immune from these complications🙂

                                      For sure. I had one of those, too. I would have loved to have a chromonica, but at the time I was a kid without that kind of money.

                                      Y'know, these posts don't have anything to do with ripping and burning CD's. Maybe it's time for a thread on musical instruments? Playing music?

                                          WetGeek Y'know, these posts don't have anything to do with ripping and burning CD's. Maybe it's time for a thread on musical instruments? Playing music?

                                          paging @Solarmass !

                                              brent BTW (!) everyone can start a new thread, make sure to select the right category 😉
                                              I just don't play any instruments and I don't create music. But recently I saw a video about some cool sound gadget ...

                                                  Solarmass
                                                  It seemed the right thing to scream at that time, although I was being presumptuous with your musical abilities. I have none either anymore but love the listening end more than anything.
                                                  That said @WetGeek , I too have the sneaking suspicion the forum houses a lot of musicians.

                                                    Solarmass everyone can start a new thread, make sure to select the right category

                                                    The category would need to be Off Topic. Sort of like Song of the Day. @brent, I'll start a thread tomorrow. Right now, I'm about a minute away from bedtime, and I need to think about what I should say in that thread. Any thoughts about a good thread name?

                                                        WetGeek too tired-eyed as well. musician talk? musician memories? it will be clearer in the morning. wife always told me for every decision, big or small, : "sleep on it, you will find your words tomorrow." It's great advice. I gotta give her that🙂

                                                            WetGeek Only way that I got audio cds to really work universal for car stereos was to use mp3 format make a playlist and burn them to a cd-r sometimes lowering the burn speed helps and use disk at once. But it didnt give song title just track numbers kinda just gave up on it myself and focused more on ripping for media device at home. and you cant just copy files to cd and burn you got to use a ripper because no info will be present to play disk. Am sure you know lot this. (just info) am sure there was a way to add tags but got burnt out on it

                                                              brent

                                                              Smart wife. I've been up for 45 minutes already, and I'm still having problems thinking of a good thread title. I need to wake up a little more, I guess. The best I could come up with so far is something like Playing Music, but I'm not entirely happy with that.

                                                                I think I may have found something that will help me in my quest to create duplicate audio CDs for use in my car. There are a lot of detailed instructions for three methods that will possibly work, and I plan to give it another shot Real Soon Now. In the meantime, I'll post the link here, in case anyone else is interested.