Using Rhythmbox in Mint 9

robinbredin · 11 Aug 2010 at 10:35

Hi What it is, I'm running Mint 9 in Virtual mode within Win 7 using Oracle VirtualBox, and cannot get Thythmbox to play a music cd. Anybody any ideas on how to get it to work. Thanks

jack.mitchell · 11 Aug 2010 at 21:21

Have you set the CD drive up in your virtual machine?

robinbredin · 11 Aug 2010 at 22:39

Can you tell me how to setup my drive, I'm using VirtualBox. Had a look through settings and could not find CD in Oracle VirtualBox.

jack.mitchell · 12 Aug 2010 at 09:19

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/images/vm-settings-harddisk.png

Get to that settings screen then select the CD icon and on the right hand side it should say 'pasthrough' or let you specificy a cd rom drive to let Mint see.

robinbredin · 12 Aug 2010 at 12:23

Tried that, but go no joy with it, here is a screen shot.

FirebarUK · 12 Aug 2010 at 12:34

Well you have a host drive using passthrough. When you put your CD-ROM in, it should automount in Linux and appear as an icon in Mint. Does it?

In the Virtualbox console window (of your running virtual machine) you can click the little CD/DVD icon at the bottom and check that "host drive" is hooked up.

robinbredin · 12 Aug 2010 at 13:28

Well you have a host drive using passthrough. When you put your CD-ROM in, it should automount in Linux and appear as an icon in Mint. Does it?

No it wont do that.
In the window, if you right click in the cd icon at the bottom, there is a click beside the host cd.

I get this if I try to play a pre recorded disc.

FirebarUK · 12 Aug 2010 at 14:36

Ok that's good as the helper app sounds like its detecting it as an audio CD correctly. You're then unable to mount it, I guess this is due to the pre-recorded nature of the disk.

Try this:

Open Terminal
sudo apt-get install libcdio

Then re-try playing the CD.

jack.mitchell · 12 Aug 2010 at 15:03

Also, what CD is it, make sure it doesn't have any bizzare copy protection scheme on it, do you have another audio cd you could try?