Paul Whybrow
New Member
I'm a Linux user of four years experience. I love the o/s and will never go back to Windows. Three days ago, I updated to Mint 19.3 Tricia. All is well, except my laptop refuses to acknowledge that there's a CD in the drive when I go to rip. I use an external Asus optical drive for an Acer Aspire A315-32-P71F. I favour Asunder or Sound Converter, but after they didn't work, I tried Ripper X, Sound Juicer, K3b and VLC Media Player...all gave a variation on "please insert a CD into the drive."
Thinking I was a few codecs short of a full o/s (a suitable epitath for my gravestone!) I raided the Software Manager and installed every package of sound codecs I could find. It didn't make any difference. Whatever CD I tried had become invisible. I decided to sleep on it.
This morning, I tried playing the CDs. Amarok didn't think much of the idea, but punted me onto Rhythmbox, which immediately played the CD!
I'm mystified. How can Rhythmbox see the CD, but none of the ripping apps can? Is there some mysterious codec that Mint 19.3 Tricia lacks?
Thinking I was a few codecs short of a full o/s (a suitable epitath for my gravestone!) I raided the Software Manager and installed every package of sound codecs I could find. It didn't make any difference. Whatever CD I tried had become invisible. I decided to sleep on it.
This morning, I tried playing the CDs. Amarok didn't think much of the idea, but punted me onto Rhythmbox, which immediately played the CD!
I'm mystified. How can Rhythmbox see the CD, but none of the ripping apps can? Is there some mysterious codec that Mint 19.3 Tricia lacks?
