Hi Oscar On Thursday 24 January 2002 22:38, Oscar Ross wrote:
This didn't work out of the box, the news are full of messages saying 'audiocd:/ displays "/ directory doesn't exist"'.
This does in fact work out of the box on SuSE 7.3, at least for oggs. I could not get it to work on 7.2, and I think that is most likely because the version of KDE on there wasn't really mature enough in this area. So my short answer is that rather than compile various things in, and possibly create more hassle somewhere else, you should try just upgrading to 7.3. On 7.3, mp3 does not work without upgrading libmp3.lame. The steps (thanks to Anders Johanssen and Avi Schwartz) are as follows (this is on a stock 7.3 install, with an ordinary IDE CD-drive, no ide-scsi in effect): 1. Find out the device to which your CD-drive points - in my case, this was /dev/hdc. 2. As root, run: chmod 777 /dev/hdc (This opens up access to the drive entirely, which may not be advisable in all cases). 3. Go to rpmfind.net, and search for libmp3lame. Download lame-libs-3.89-1.i386.rpm. Use YaST or the console to install this. (You do not need to do this if you are going to use ogg format - the existing setup will rip the tracks as oggs without anything further. However, sw as supplied with earlier SuSE versions (eg 7.2) seems to have difficulties playing oggs - noatun segfaults, and xmms just sits there.) 4. Put a CD in the drive, and open Konq. Under Services, click on Audio CD Browser. Go to the MP3 folder, and select the track(s) you want to rip. Drag them to, eg, the desktop. The track will be ripped into an mp3. 5. As Avi said, "you can control the MP3 conversion settings (bit rate, etc.) from the KDE Control Center>Sound>Audiocd IO Slave>MP3 Settings." This may not help you if you are intent on going the long way around, but there are many other benefits to 7.3. Best wishes Kevin