Audio cd doesn't play

Question

I'm trying to play an audio CD in Debian but each time I insert the CD, while there appears an icon with the CD in the screen, when I try opening it I get the message:

Failed to mount "Audio CD". Location is not mountable.

I've been searching since yesterday but as I see there is a general problem with audio CDs because the system cannot mount them (they are iso data?) So, is there a way to fix this problem?

Note: I have found suggestions of using cdparanoia or soundjuicer. Should these programs solve the problem(if truly there is one)?

Note2:

I have tried these:

   root@debian:/home/kwstas# mkdir /mnt/cd && mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cd
   mount: /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
   mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
   missing codepage or helper program, or other error

   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
   dmesg | tail or so.



   root@debian:/home/kwstas# mkdir /mnt/cd && sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cd
   mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/mnt/cd’: File exists


   root@debian:/home/kwstas# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cd
   mount: /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
   mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
   missing codepage or helper program, or other error

   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
   dmesg | tail or so.`

Answer 1

You don't mount Audio CDs. You can read about it here Mount CD ROM in Linux at 4. Mounting Audio CD chapter.

In order to listen to a music CD all what needs to be done is to insert music CD ( Compact Dics ) into CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive and fire up you favorite music CD player.

In order to listen to Audio CD you can refer to this article Mplayer: Play Audio CD. What you need to do is simply use a command below:

mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/cdrom -cache 5000 cdda://1

where 1 is your track number, and -cache 5000 option indicates that mplayer should cache 5 seconds of audio to avoid delays when CD stops (when you use Pause).

Answer 2

You could try to use these commands in the terminal:

mkdir /mnt/cd && mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cd

Else try this in the terminal:

sudo mkdir /mnt/cd && sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cd

Or, if mkdir works:

mkdir /mnt/cd && sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cd 

Or, if the directory has already been created:

sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cd

Edit: I've googled and found this link.

It's about mounting an audio CD. It reads you can't mount them because of no filesystem. You need another program indeed.

Answer 3

If you want to see an audio CD in your file system, assuming it is functioning and visible in your file explorer, look for it to have been auto-mounted at /run/user/$(id -u)/gvfs/cdd*.

In other words, you can play a CD from the command line with:

find /run/user/1000/gvfs/cdd* -iname "*.wav" -print0 |xargs -0 -n1 aplay

Warning: This might suffer from underruns due to a lack of buffering.