[PLUG-TALK] ripping a music CD?

[Denis Heidtmann]

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 4:33 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 15:10:46 -0800
> Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com> dijo:
>
>>Well, as I feared, the CD tied up Evan's computer without any success
>>even reading it.  Time to try something else.  (Go after a CD player
>>with a soldering iron to get the digital data before it gets to the
>>D/A?)
>>
>>I am curious if this CD is something new from the DR guys.  This is
>>the second copy of this disk which behaves this way.  The first we
>>took back to the store as a defective item.  It was not quite as bad
>>as this one, but it still might have been cardboard as far as my
>>machine is concerned.
>
> I'm a little unclear as to what happens when you insert the CD. Does
> anything at all happen? If you're using Gnome, when you go to Places >
> does anything show up? (Or the equivalent if using KDE.) What
> about /media/, does anything appear in there?
>
> What does "dmesg | tail" say after inserting the disk? How about
> "mount"? What happens if you insert the disk, launch Totem (Movie
> Player), and then click on Movie >? Or VLC? Or Rhythmbox, Exaile, or
> other music player when you try to open it from File > Open.
>
> And finally, what happens if you insert it into a Windows machine, or
> insert it while running Windows in a virtual machine?
>
> I'm sure you've tried all of the above, but if any produced even the
> slightest disturbance in the force, it would be helpful to know what.
>
> I'm especially curious about what happens in a Windows machine. If
> there's some new kind of DRM thing going on and it also affects Windows
> users, the net should be screaming by now.

When I insert the CD, the light on the drive flashes for perhaps 30
seconds, the hard drive light flashes a bit, some slight whirring
noises come from the drive, then all is quiet and dark.  When I open
the file browser and click on the CD-RW/DVD+RW Drive entry, a dialog
box reports "Unable to mount location No media in the drive".

If I insert a different CD I get a dialog box which says "You have
just inserted an Audio CD.  Choose what application to launch. ..."

dmesg | tail

[  553.826457] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 210616
[  553.826471] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 52654
[  553.826479] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 52655
[  553.830566] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 210616
[  553.830574] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 52654
[  553.830580] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 52655

There may be some clues in the above to the cluesome among the readers
here.  The meaningful word to me is "error".

When Evan puts the CD in his drive, the drive makes lots of
noise--clicking, whirring.  Eventually it locks up his system, which
responds only to the eject button on the drive.

Now what?  I can ask Evan to try under Windows--he has a dual boot.
If the response of the machine is different, I will report back.

-Denis