Amarok (amarok) - With Amarok, you get a nice graphical interface where you can manage music by moving elements around with your mouse. Amarok uses SQLite (or other databases) to store your music. It also supports playlists and streaming audio playback from online radio stations. X Multimedia System (xmms) - The XMMS player plays a variety of audio formats but can also play directly from a CD.
NOTE If you try some of these CD players and your CD-ROM drive is not working, see the sidebar "Troubleshooting Your CD-ROM" for further information.
Playing CDs with gnome-cd Like most graphical CD players, the gnome-cd player has controls that look similar to those you would see on a physical CD player. If you are using the GNOME desktop, from the main menu select Sound & Video CD Player, or from a Terminal window, type: $ gnome-cd &
Troubleshooting Your CD-ROM
If you are unable to play CDs on your CD-ROM drive, here are a few things you can check to
correct the problem:
Verify that your sound card is installed and working properly.
Verify that the CD-ROM drive was detected when you booted Linux. If your CD-ROM
drive is an IDE drive, type dmesg | grep ^hd. You should see messages about your CD-
ROM that resemble this:
hdc: CD-ROM CDU701, ATAPI CDROM drive or
hdc: ATAPI 14X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache.
If you see no indication of a CD-ROM drive, verify that the power supply and cables to the CD-ROM are connected. To make sure that the hardware is working, you can also boot to Windows (if it is installed and you are running a dual-boot machine) and try to access the CD.
Try inserting a software CD-ROM. If you are running the GNOME or KDE desktop, a desktop icon should appear indicating that the CD mounted by itself. If no such icon appears, go to a Terminal window, and, as the root user, type mount /dev/cdrom. Then change to the /media/cdrom or /dev/media directory and list the contents using the command cd /media/cdrom; ls . This tells you if the CD-ROM is accessible.
If you get the CD-ROM working but it fails with the message CDROM device:
Permission denied when you try to play music as a nonroot user, the problem
may be that /dev/cdrom (which is typically a link to the actual hardware device) is
not readable by anyone but root. Type ls -l /dev/cdrom to see what the device is
linked to. Then if, for example, the CD device is /dev/hdc , type chmod 644 /dev/hdc
as the root user to enable all users to read your CD-ROM and to enable the root user to
write to it. One warning: If others use your computer, they will be able to read any CD
you place in this drive.
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