[NCLUG] Music on DVD player

[J. Paul Reed]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Idris S Hamid wrote:

> My dvd player plays music fine on my Windows partition, but I cannot
> mount the dvd drive on Linux for music cd's (it works fine for data
> cd's). Here is the message:
>
> Could not mount device.
> The reported error was:
> /dev/dvd: Input/output error
> mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified
>
> Any ideas for solving this? Suse 8.0...

You don't mount music CDs.

Just point xplaycd (or your favorite CD player... I like cdp, myself) at
/dev/dvd, and it should work.

Later,
Paul
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