GVFS cannot recognize certain audio CD media: drive disconnected
Submitted by Jud Craft
Assigned to gvf..@..e.bugs
Link to original bug (#594398)
Description
Fedora 11, GVFS 1.2.3. I often cannot read any CD that a friend may burn for me.
It doesn't happen with every CD. But, all of my friends use iTunes, and it -always- happens with a CD that has been burnt using iTunes.
In fact, this even happens with the music CDs I burn using brasero! I've had Fedora installed since April and I haven't managed to successfully rip a burnt CD once.
Reproducing:
- Get a friend.
- Friend makes you a CD in iTunes (track-at-once, or disc-at-once. either will do).
- You insert the CD into your linux computer.
Results: 4. Your CD Player device will disappear from Computer. 5. There is no "Audio CD", on the desktop, or inside Places\Computer. It cannot be found. 6. The CD cannot be played or ripped. Nautilus, Sound Juicer, and Rhythmbox can't do it.
(Oddly enough, Banshee sees it just fine and can play and rip it. The exception. Banshee has never failed me.)
Expected Results: --Your CD device should never simply -disappear- from Computer. --GNOME should always be able to read any valid music CD -- especially since Banshee obviously can!
Impact: I hate to be a jerk, but this is a major problem. Unless you've got Banshee installed, it means that a desktop user cannot perform any function with a significant percentage of audio CDs. GNOME simply can't anything with the disc. This has only happened to me with burnt CDs, but then I don't have a large disc collection.
I've spent weeks wondering why this has been happening, filed a few bugs in Brasero (I can't even read my own burnt CDs in GNOME -- except in Banshee) tried Googling and went through searches for cdparanoia -and- Sound Juicer, until I finally saw a reference to GVFS and figured this might be the place.
The mere effort of hunting down where to file this bug was a hassle.
Extra Info: Ubuntu presents with the same problem, so perhaps you guys already know of this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/395470
That is, Nautilus and Rhythmbox can't see certain music CDs at all.
I'd hope that maybe this has already been fixed upstream, but Fedora stays close to current, so I'm betting this is still a problem. Correct me if wrong though.
I do wonder why Banshee can see the CD: does it have its own GVFS-independent CD backend?
I know that there have been some GVFS changes lately through a migration from HAL to GIO that involved a Brasero bug I had (#590385). Other than this, I am a lay man -- I have no idea what's going on.
If this will be fixed, it will really resolve a huge amount of my stress with trying to use Linux full time. If you need any information, I can try to help.
Version: 1.2.x