Kscd stops playing

[frmrick at aapt.net.au]

Does the problem happen with all cd's?

I've had that problem in the past but it was usually only with certain cd's not
all of mine. I don't play from cd's that often any more so can't confirm if
this is still the case for me.

Quoting Ryo Furue <furue at hawaii.edu>:

> Hi KDE users,
> We had the following discussion on kscd a while ago:
>
> | On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:40:48 +0100
> | Florian Lindner <mailinglists at xgm.de> wrote:
> |
> | > Hallo,
> | > I have the problem that sometimes (often) Kscd just stops playing a
> | > CD. There is no message on syslog neither on stdout. It happens with
> | > arbitrary CDs at arbitrary positions of the track.
> | > Anyone got an idea?
> |
> |
> | As I understand it Kscd is a traditional cd player application that
> | just controls the CD drive as if it were an ordinary audio cd player.
> | The audio is fed directly to the sound card or out though the drive's
> | headphone socket, Kscd just tells it to play. If it has  a problem
> | reading the disk it will stop like any normal CD player.
> |
> | You may find the more modern players  like xmms or amorok, which
> | can bypass the drive's audio electronics and read the data off the
> | disk, a bit more robust. Ultimately you may need a newer drive or
> | cleaner disks though.
>
> Today, I got a kind of confirmation that the problem is likely
> NOT related whether or not the player reads the data off the disk
> or whether the disk is clean or not.
>
> 0) When a music CD is inserted, Kscd automatically plays it.
>    In this case, it stops playing after several minutes
>    ( ~ 5 minutes).  Every time.  No exception.  It's perfectly
>    repeatable.
>
> 1) Then, you press the "Play" button and Kscd starts playing from the
>    beginning of the CD.  This time, Kscd plays the CD without stopping
>    (at least for 10 minutes).
>
> 2) You press the "Eject" button; the CD is ejected.  You press the
>    "Eject" button again; the CD is re-inserted.  Then, you are back
>    to (0) !
>
> So, there must be something wrong when Kscd plays a CD right after
> it's inserted.
>
> Can somebody confirm this phenomenon?
>
> Regards,
> Ryo
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