I hope there is a simple CD solution at LinuxForums!

[cousinlucky]

As a technology challenged old man ( getting fat on the Internet at wee hours of the morning ) I have a perplexing problem. In the daytime I can put a CD into the CD player on the other side of the room I'm in while my computer is booting up.

However at 3:00AM I want to be able to put a CD into my HP a532x computer and plug in the headphones and listen to music that no one else will be disturbed by. I have a Banshee music player on my Suse 10 OS but I have to put the music into a music file and then look for it before Banshee will play it through the computer.

What I need is a CD program that will play a CD right away with very few procedures. Does such a Linux software program exist somewhere? Thanks!!

[Dark_Stang]

SoundJuicer can play from CD's. I'm sure many others can too, but that's what pops up when I put the CD in.

[Juan Pablo]

Something like KsCD

[peteh]

I use kaffeine.

[cousinlucky]

I am not doing something or doing something the wrong way because Banshee is still the only CD player that works.
I think that because I use a Gnome desktop Amorok will not even open up.
Soundjuicer opens but says the format is wrong.
I need to learn more about Suse 10 and how I can get it to function.
Thank you all for your input!

[minthaka]

I use Xmms. It has ability to play CD's. Since you're on Suse 10, you'll have to add audio codecs. As I remember KsCD is also on Suse. The only thing you'll have to do is to tell him in Preferences to play CD digitally (if your CD-drive isn't directly wired to the motherboard, like mine isn't)

[fatalexception]

I think that because I use a Gnome desktop Amorok will not even open up.

Amarok runs quite happily on my GNOME and Xfce desktops. Well, I can't exactly say happily, since every once in a while it tends to fail to open mysteriously. You do need to have a lot of KDE stuff in order for it to run, though. QT, etc, etc.

I use Xmms. It has ability to play CD's. Since you're on Suse 10, you'll have to add audio codecs. As I remember KsCD is also on Suse. The only thing you'll have to do is to tell him in Preferences to play CD digitally (if your CD-drive isn't directly wired to the motherboard, like mine isn't)

There's a couple ideas. I'm not sure about Suse, but I'm sure it has something similar to what I'm used to on Ubuntu: I can go to 'system/preferences/removable drives and media' and choose which software runs when a CD is inserted (also useful for iPods and flash drives). I'm not sure if this is a GNOME feature or an Ubuntu feature since this is the first distribution where I've used GNOME.

[bryansmith]

GNOME comes with a cd player. Try using that.

BTW, you're not trying to mount the cd are you? Music CD's don't need to be mounted.

[cousinlucky]

My gnome cd player does not work either.

[bryansmith]

Do you receive any error messages? Is there anything else that signifies any problems?