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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 26 for Linux => Topic started by: cyberjew on March 12, 2020, 07:32:46 am

Title: Media Center 25 and 26 Won't See CD/DVD Drive Under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Post by: cyberjew on March 12, 2020, 07:32:46 am

Hello,

I'm a long time Linux user, but I've never used MC on it until today. I originally installed MC26 on my computer and it would not find the CD/DVD (/dev/sr0) drive on my computer (Dell XPS tower). I decided to uninstall MC26 and go back down to MC25 to see if it was a bug in 26, but I'm getting the same results. I've expanded all of the menus in the tree on the left side of the page so I don't think I'm missing anything.

The CD/DVD drive works fine in other applications (VLC, Audacity, etc.), so it's not a hardware issue, nor is the OS causing issues.

I hope I'm not missing something totally obvious...I'll feel really dumb!

Thanks in advance for your assistance!

-JeffH

Title: Re: Media Center 25 and 26 Won't See CD/DVD Drive Under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Post by: cyberjew on March 12, 2020, 07:33:41 am

By the way, when I run 'dmesg' I see the following output for the CD/DVD drive:

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[    3.061548] scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM            PLDS     DVD+-RW DU-8A5LH 6D1M PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    3.376008] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[    3.376148] sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0

Title: Re: Media Center 25 and 26 Won't See CD/DVD Drive Under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Post by: Awesome Donkey on March 12, 2020, 07:37:20 am

It may not be supported yet. As far as I know, it's not yet.

Title: Re: Media Center 25 and 26 Won't See CD/DVD Drive Under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Post by: cyberjew on March 13, 2020, 05:19:51 pm

Wow! That's pretty incredible. I'd think that's a pretty basic function...

Title: Re: Media Center 25 and 26 Won't See CD/DVD Drive Under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Post by: dbaldock9 on April 28, 2020, 03:48:20 pm

Another person who's shocked!

The whole reason I went to the effort of installing MC26 (and converting the Library from Windows) on my Linux PC (Kubuntu 19.10), is so that I can continue ripping my CDs.

If playing and ripping CDs isn't even supported in Linux, then I've wasted time and money.

Title: Re: Media Center 25 and 26 Won't See CD/DVD Drive Under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Post by: Awesome Donkey on April 28, 2020, 03:53:56 pm

It's still on Bob's to-do list as far as I know.

Title: Re: Media Center 25 and 26 Won't See CD/DVD Drive Under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Post by: cyberjew on April 28, 2020, 08:22:11 pm

I’ve been a JRiver Media Center customer for years and have been using it primarily on Windows - a few times on MacOS. I made a decision to switch to Linux recently and, aside from JRiver not being able to play/rip CDs, I’m happy with my decision.

That said, I don’t plan on renewing my license when there’s a new release as a result of a huge basic feature like this that is missing.

Title: Re: Media Center 25 and 26 Won't See CD/DVD Drive Under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Post by: dbaldock9 on April 28, 2020, 08:38:35 pm

I've got a DVD audio album from an independant musician.
On it, there's a set of files that contain the whole album, in different formats (CDA=422.1-MB, WAV=422.1-MB, FLAC=263.8-MB, MP3=38.3-MB, OGG=31.7-MB).

If I right-click on the FLAC file in the Dolphin File Manager, and select open with MC26 - the drive is accessed for ~30-minutes, reading the data into a cache file - and then MC26 plays the music.
But, the drive still doesn't show up anywhere in the MC26 interface.
And, once the file stops playing, trying to restart the music by clicking on Play, just results in a "There is nothing to play" error.

EDIT: The file that's read off of the CD, is stored in this location on my Kubuntu 19.10 system:  ~/.cache/kioexec/krun/[random #]/FullCD.[cda | wav | flac | mp3 | ogg]
I do have KIO AudioCD installed.