On Sunday 07 December 2003 22:16, Mike Béla wrote:
Hello Tony!
Have you opened "/media/cdrom" or "dev/cdrom" with XMMS? Using the xmms-cdread plugin you should open "dev/cdrom" not "/media/cdrom"!
Béla
Okay, I'm making some progress, thank you. If I 'Play File', and enter /dev/cdrom, it works. However, it doesn't seem to default to this file. When I select Play File, the Load File dialog appears, but only set to the /dev directory. I either have to navigate to cdrom on the right-hand pane, or type 'cdrom' into the 'selection' box. When I look at Preferences/AudioPlugins/cdread/configure, the default device is set to /dev/cdrom, I've tried clicking on 'Add to Playlist', but that still doesn't make it come up as default next time I use xmms. Configure for cdaudio has /dev/cdrom as the device, /media/cdrom as the directory, which seems correct. I tried changing the latter to /dev/cdrom, but no joy. I also manually changed the filesel-path in .xmms/config to /dev/cdrom, but I still need to manually select cdrom each time. Okay, it works, but it's a bit of a PITA. Any ideas on how I can set the default for Play File to /dev/cdrom? If not, thanks anyway, at least I can now listen Cheers, TonyB