Audio CD when inserted does not play automatically

[J. K. Cliburn]

On 4/15/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> After some work I got sound to work but now I have the following problem
> playing Audio CD-s.
> 1. I went to System->Preferences-> Removable Drives and Media
>         Under multimedia tab I inserted that Audio CD-s should be played by
> gnome-cd %u
> 2. When I insert a CD I see the CD icon on the screen but gnome-cd is
> not started.
> 3. If I click on the CD icon gnome-cd opens and plays the CD.
>
> Why is this not happening automatically? How can I fix this?

Any hints in the syslog?