Hi,

I learned that this was not intended to be supported by the Amarok team because Audio CDs are told to be old fashioned. But lucky we are, the developers changed their mind and included support for Audio CDs.

I really wonder why I should have switched to another software to listen to Audio CDs when I do have nice software like Amarok for the rest of the music! In addition, I personally prefer ripping my Audio CDs directly out of Amarok - what worked nice before!

Now this was discussed in other postings and I only open a new posting at the - hopefully! - correct place to have the different answers brought together at one place.

Question 1:

Does Amarok support the playback of Audio CDs?

Question 2:

If yes, from which version on does it support it?

Question 3:

Are there any constraints about this?

Regards, Martin

I just got an answer in another posting so I post this around here:

Hello NN,

NN wrote:A typical user would not disable auto-installation of package Recommends. You did and now you face consequences of amarok not playing CDs by default. Install kdemultimedia-kio-plugins package.

Interesting, how does this helpful user know, what I have deactivated? I changed nothing and this is what is installed:

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root@xxx:/home/xxx# dpkg-query -l kdemultimedia-kio-plugins
Gewünscht=Unbekannt/Installieren/R=Entfernen/P=Vollständig Löschen/Halten
| Status=Nicht/Installiert/Config/U=Entpackt/Fehlgeschl. Konfiguration/
         Halb installiert/Trigger erWartet/Trigger anhängig
|/ Fehler?=(kein)/R=Neuinstallation notwendig (Status, Fehler: GROSS=schlecht)
||/ Name                                   Version                                Beschreibung
+++-====================================-==========================-==================================
ii  kdemultimedia-kio-plugins            4:4.3.4-1                  transparent audio CD access for KDE 4 applications

"ii" meaning that it is installed!

Regards, Martin

I have just tested amarok 2.2.2 on Debian sid with kdemultimedia-kio-plugins installed. Audio CDs play just fine. A new Audio CD collection appeared in "Local Music" section.

And yes, your output means kdemultimedia-kio-plugins is installed.

MoDaX wrote:I have just tested amarok 2.2.2 on Debian sid with kdemultimedia-kio-plugins installed.

I have what Debian Squeeze offers: Amarok 2.2.1. With this combination neither Amarok nor kscd works. VLC will do!

Martin