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[Solved] K3b Does Not Rip Audio CDs

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meinashi
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[Solved] K3b Does Not Rip Audio CDs

Sun Feb 10, 2013 6:32 am
When trying to rip an Audio CD using K3b I get the following message: Please insert an Audio CD medium. The OK option is greyed out and the only option is to cancel the request.

I believe this is a KDE issue (although this may be because I did not install the prerequisites for multimedia correctly) because while I can access the CD using dolphin's audiocd:/ I can only copy the full track; the mp3/flac/etc directories are all empty which to me indicates another issue; however, despite this I have no issues playing or ripping audio cds in applications unrelated to KDE.

I can play cds with mplayer and rip CDs via ripperX (using cdparanoia) and via line command (cdda2wav) and convert them with lame. I'm guessing this means that I have all of the necessary audio applications installed, so is there anything else I need to install to get K3b to allow me to do the same tasks? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Distro: Gentoo
ROM Hardware: Samsung CDDVDW SH-222AB
Kernel version: 3.6.11
KDE version: 4.9.5
K3b version: 2.0.2-r4

If you need any more info, please let me know. Thanks in advance for your time and assistance.

Last edited by meinashi on Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:51 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: K3b Does Not Rip Audio CDs  Topic is solved

Sun Feb 10, 2013 1:39 pm
this is a guess:

K3b -> settings -> configure k3b -> programs -> programs -> cdread, what programs are listed? is one of them checked? does the one checked actually exist?

also look at the plugins -> auto decoder -> k3bwave decoder it should be checked

ps - I use Audex it has much more functionality for cd ripping (covers, artistname, ....)


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Re: K3b Does Not Rip Audio CDs

Sun Feb 10, 2013 10:46 pm
With regards to the audiocd:/ issue, I suggest checking the settings in System Settings > Multimedia > Audio CDs.
Ogg Vorbis based ripping should always be available in theory.

If you self compiled KDE, then I would also suggest checking the build output of "kdemultimedia" to ensure all necessary dependencies were available when the module was built.


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Re: K3b Does Not Rip Audio CDs

Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:50 am
Installing Audex did the trick. Thank you both very much for your time and suggestions.

Update: uninstalled Audex and K3B is still working fine. I'm assuming that the necessary dependency that I was missing was installed with Audex. Again thanks.


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