Audio CD ripper -

[Bob Goodwin]

I have a number of CD's that I need to transfer to flash drives. I
    did this a few months ago but can't recall what I used to do the job?

K3B works but it's rather cumbersome to use.

I see several other app's that look as though they should work but
    don't, e.g. grip, sound-juicer, asunder. They seem to have trouble
    finding the cdrom drive and I'm not sure they are any faster to use
    than K3B. But it seems they ought to work.

[bobg@box9 ~]$ asunder
        Error: Couldn't open /dev/cdrom
        Error: Couldn't open /dev/cdrom
        Error: Couldn't open /dev/cdrom

Grip produces an error message:

Err0r: Unable to initialize [/dev/cdrom]

Sound-juicer says "Unable to read the CD"

There is no problem listing contents:

[bobg@box9 media]$ ll
        total 8
        drwx------. 2 root root 4096 Feb 13 11:57 disk
        drwx------. 2 root root 4096 Feb 13 11:59 disk-1

Any suggestions?

Bob
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[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Bob Goodwin  wrote:
> I have a number of CD's that I need to transfer to flash drives. I
>    did this a few months ago but can't recall what I used to do the job?
>
> K3B works but it's rather cumbersome to use.
>
> I see several other app's that look as though they should work but
>    don't, e.g. grip, sound-juicer, asunder. They seem to have trouble
>    finding the cdrom drive and I'm not sure they are any faster to use
>    than K3B. But it seems they ought to work.
>
> [bobg@box9 ~]$ asunder
>        Error: Couldn't open /dev/cdrom
>        Error: Couldn't open /dev/cdrom
>        Error: Couldn't open /dev/cdrom
>
> Grip produces an error message:
>
> Err0r: Unable to initialize [/dev/cdrom]
>
> Sound-juicer says "Unable to read the CD"
>
> There is no problem listing contents:
>
> [bobg@box9 media]$ ll
>        total 8
>        drwx------. 2 root root 4096 Feb 13 11:57 disk
>        drwx------. 2 root root 4096 Feb 13 11:59 disk-1

I've used sound-juicer across several Fedora versions without issue.
Have you checked to make sure /dev/cdrom exists?

Richard

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 15:17 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> I see several other app's that look as though they should work but
>     don't, e.g. grip, sound-juicer, asunder. They seem to have trouble
>     finding the cdrom drive and I'm not sure they are any faster to
> use
>     than K3B. But it seems they ought to work.
>     [bobg@box9 ~]$ asunder
>     Error: Couldn't open /dev/cdrom
>     Error: Couldn't open /dev/cdrom
>     Error: Couldn't open /dev/cdrom
>
> Grip produces an error message:

/dev/cdrom is usually a symbolic link to the real device, e.g. on my
system:

$ ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 Apr 27 12:21 /dev/cdrom -> sr0

That's what you need to check first. Since the automount thing is
working, see what physical drive is mounted on /media/<whatever>. Note
that you my need to unmount it (but not eject it) for the ripping apps
to be able to access it directly. Alternatively, start the app before
inserting the disc.

poc

[Bob Goodwin]

On 04/05/11 15:27, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 15:17 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > I see several other app's that look as though they should work but
> >      don't, e.g. grip, sound-juicer, asunder. They seem to have trouble
> >      finding the cdrom drive and I'm not sure they are any faster to
> > use
> >      than K3B. But it seems they ought to work.
> >      [bobg@box9 ~]$ asunder
> >      Error: Couldn't open /dev/cdrom
> >      Error: Couldn't open /dev/cdrom
> >      Error: Couldn't open /dev/cdrom
> >
> >  Grip produces an error message:
>
> /dev/cdrom is usually a symbolic link to the real device, e.g. on my
> system:
>
> $ ls -l /dev/cdrom
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 Apr 27 12:21 /dev/cdrom ->  sr0
>
> That's what you need to check first. Since the automount thing is
> working, see what physical drive is mounted on /media/<whatever>. Note
> that you my need to unmount it (but not eject it) for the ripping apps
> to be able to access it directly. Alternatively, start the app before
> inserting the disc.
>
> poc

Yes, thank you, I am embarrassed. I should have checked for /dev/cdrom!

I linked it to sr0 and "asunder" works, most likely the others will
    also.

What confused me was I thought it had worked a couple of months ago.
    But I think I installed a new drive since that time and something
    has changed as a result?

Thanks to all.

Bob