Bug 195557

Summary:	kscd cannot handle multiple CD drives
Product:	[Unmaintained] kscd	Reporter:	Axel Schwank <axel>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	greta_watson, groot, kde, lmenut, LpSolit, philippedidier, reavertm
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	add support in kscd of multiple CD drives

Description Axel Schwank 2009-06-07 13:38:57 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

I have two CD drives, one of them is configured to hanle audio CDs in the KDE system settings (let's call it A, the other one B).
Kscd offers no configuration to set the drive it will use, so I suppose it should honour the KDE setting.
If I put a CD into drive A and try to play it, kscd says "No disc", the track list is empty.
If I put a CD into drive B and try to play it, nothing happens (the "play" button switches to "pause" for a short moment and back again). The track list is also empty.
The "eject" button ejects drive B.
After inserting a disc into drive B, i get a console message

Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect Phonon::MediaObject(no objectName) to Phonon::AudioOutput(no objectName).
Object::connect: No such signal Phonon::Gstreamer::MediaObject::availableSubtitlesChanged()
Object::connect: No such signal Phonon::Gstreamer::MediaObject::availableAudioChannelsChanged()
Object::connect: No such signal Phonon::Gstreamer::MediaObject::titleChanged(int)
Object::connect: No such signal Phonon::Gstreamer::MediaObject::availableTitlesChanged(int)
Object::connect: No such signal Phonon::Gstreamer::MediaObject::chapterChanged(int)
Object::connect: No such signal Phonon::Gstreamer::MediaObject::availableChaptersChanged(int)
Object::connect: No such signal Phonon::Gstreamer::MediaObject::angleChanged(int)
Object::connect: No such signal Phonon::Gstreamer::MediaObject::availableAnglesChanged(int)
Query failed: Cannot read table of contents.
This CD was not found.

Comment 1 Luc Menut 2009-06-28 23:36:07 UTC

I confirm that KsCD doesn't work properly if there are more than one CD/DVD drive
on the PC.
In fact, part of the bug is in kscd, but there are also bugs in xine and gstreamer backend which don't use the CD drive set in mediasource.
xine -> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198218
gstreamer -> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198216 (with patch)

The attached patch add the support of multiple CD drive in kscd.

Comment 2 Luc Menut 2009-06-28 23:39:46 UTC

Created attachment 34898 [details]
add support in kscd of multiple CD drives

Comment 3 Frédéric Buclin 2009-07-20 17:05:04 UTC

Severity "normal" only?? "major" would be a minimum, IMO.

Comment 4 Maciej Mrozowski 2009-08-29 22:37:18 UTC

Confirmed on 4.3 branch (kdemultimedia r1015270)

Comment 5 Nicolas L. 2009-09-24 10:36:10 UTC

can someone review luc patch please ?

Comment 6 Philippe Didier 2009-09-27 00:54:45 UTC

It works on Mandriva cooker !!!!!
Beautiful work indeed !
Bravo et merci à Nicolas et à Luc

Comment 7 Frédéric Buclin 2012-05-30 22:42:47 UTC

So when do you plan to integrate Luc's patch into KDE? This bug is really annoying.

Comment 8 groot 2020-04-14 19:03:37 UTC

KSCD was quietly ejected about two years ago since it never was ported to KDE Frameworks or Qt5. I'm closing this as "sorry, this is never going to be fixed in a newer product."

I'd still like to thank Luc for that patch, unregarded for over a decade -- I hope at least Mandriva took it to good use.