GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 671964
Banshee should slow down the drive while playing CD audio
Last modified: 2020-03-17 09:23:47 UTC
Originally reported at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/953166 Playing Audio CDs has poor user experience as the drive is spinning like crazy. To work around that I manually resort to running hdparm -E 1 /dev/sr0 but it would be nice if banshee did this by default ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: banshee 2.3.6-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.28-generic 3.2.9 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Mar 12 17:15:39 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120218) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, user) LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: banshee UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
I'm not sure this is something we should do ourselves, we basically just tell GStreamer to play the CD. In fact, it be be even happening at the hardware level. The man page for hdparm states : -E Set cd/dvd drive speed. This is NOT necessary for regular operation, as the drive will automatically switch speeds on its own.
I'm sure there is a bug somewhere in the stack. Playing audio CDs does not require my drive to speed up to the maximum possible speed allowed by the drive (this is my uneducated guess based on the amount of noise the drive was making).
I just tried with one of my CDs in Banshee, and my drive was not making much noise, so it was probably rotating at normal speed. Same with Totem. Does the problem also happen with other media players also using GStreamer, like Totem ? Or something not using GStreamer, like VLC ?
Zygmunt, can you please provide requested information as per comment#3 ?
Hi, sorry for the delay. Interesting: Playback in totem is fine, the CD does not spin fast at all and I hear the music much more than the the drive itself. VLC on the other hand make the drive spin up to maximum, leaving the drive the single most audible thing in my room. Banshee, now upgraded, was quiet for a while but after a few seconds the track changed and the drive spun up again. I have not given it much testing, I still suspect that one of the interfaces for CD-Audio playback is doing the wrong thing. It's one ting to rip the track, you want that at full speed (probably) but for playback with x52 drive you really don't want that. After using VLC and Banshee I had to use hdparam trick to slow the drive again (totem does not do that).
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.