Sunday, February 20, 2011

Audio CDs give "Location is not mountable" error

You insert an audio CD and get a window with the error message "Location is not mountable".


According to the information at the link below Lubuntu (Ubuntu) 10.10 has a bug that creates this message. To stop it  you need to 

Open terminal window

Accessories/LXterminal  in command terminal type:


sudo apt-get install gvfs-backends


Next time you load an audio CD it should open with screen "Removable medium is inserted". Double click "open with file manager". That does not play the audio CD. You would need to right click a file and choose a player. Not a very useful series of actions. So all you have actually achieved is to stop the message "Location is not mountable".


The rest of the post talks about Aqualung the music player. The command mplayer cdda:// plays from the terminal command the audio CD. I did notice that the playback stutters. The post talks about increasing the buffer size - I assume this most remove the stutter - this is how you do it:


Open terminal window

Accessories/LXterminal  in command terminal type:




sudo leafpad ~/.mplayer/config

You will be prompted for you user password

config will open

Add at bottom of list cache=5000

Save and close. Test by rebooting - that should work

Note that this config only applies to current user. To apply as default for all users you would need to change /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf



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