GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 149224
User should be able to browse/listen audio CD by simply clicking the cdrom icon on computer:/// location
Last modified: 2008-01-22 16:50:51 UTC
There is usability problem in nautilus, because there is pretty hard to find how to listen audio CD. If data CD containts mp3 or some other audio/video data, then user can listen these audio by simply clicking the cdrom icon on computer:/// location and choosing needed tracks. So, why there is different behaviour with audio CD ? I think user should be able to browse/listen audio CD by simply clicking the cdrom icon on computer:/// location (Computer icon on the desktop).
This may no longer be an issue in the future now that there is gnome-volume-manager to handle this, but perhaps having nautilus also be smart enough to recognize this fact would be useful.
*** Bug 308389 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is not an enhancement; it's a reasonably serious usability problem for new users. I can't test with 2.11, unfortunately; my 2.11 box has no CD player. I'll try to test later, though.
FWIW, i have a half-made patch (doesn't work so far) for nautilus, that adds a right-click action for audioCD and DVD volumes "Play CD" or "Play DVD", ontop of Eject. I think that's nicer than overriding left click which is for browse. I don't know when I'll have time to finish the patch though (and for now I'm working on the code of 2.10...).
Created attachment 48858 [details] [review] patch that adds "Play DVD/Play CD" on right click on audioCD/video DVD volumes this is what I was working on; adding "Play DVD" and "Play CD" on right-click menu on the drive icons if the volume are audioCD or DVD video. basically it works. This patch is against CVS HEAD, but unfortunately I only have 2.10 on my computer. it's an untested (not even if it compiles, I don't have the dependencies to pass configure) forwardport of my 2.10 patch. However, it really should work, it's just moving lines around from my 2.10 code, nothing important to that code seems to have changed. It's very close to the patch for #308388 that was taken in gnome-applets. it copy-pastes code from GVM, but it works...
thanks for your bug, can you send it on the nautilus-list, maintainers usually use the list to comment on patches
posted a mail mentionning the patch at: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-July/msg00198.html
Comment on attachment 48858 [details] [review] patch that adds "Play DVD/Play CD" on right click on audioCD/video DVD volumes http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-July/msg00208.html according to this mail by alexander larsson, nautilus maintainer, there is already a solution for Audio CDs, which is to play the audioCD on left-click on the volume icon. it works already for fedora, not for some other distributions. What's only left to do is doing it for DVDs (and ensuring all distributions do it for audioCDs). the obvious solution is now to do it on left click like audioCDs and not on right click, so the patch I posted is obsolete.
Alex has changed gnomevfs so cdda is not built by default, now gnome-media should ship a schemas setting gnome-cd to open cdda locations.
*** Bug 310907 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
mentionned by https://launchpad.net/products/nautilus/+bug/40646 too ""cdda:///dev/hdc" is not a valid location In Dapper Beta, I get this error: "cdda:///dev/hdc" is not a valid location if I click on "audio disk" in Places menu in the left pane of the file browser. There is an audio CD in the drive, and clicking on Audio Disk icon on desktop, or Places menu in the panel works fine - it opens Sound Juicer (BTW: there is no GUI to configure what app should be used for this - but this is a goal for the future)" (note that sound-juicer is set as cdda handler on Ubuntu)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 161004 ***