CD autoplay: anyone have it working?

[Jerry3904]

I tried Settings Manager > Removable Drives and Media > Multimedia tab, checking the box to Play Audio CDs when inserted, and using this command that was posted by the very knowledgeable ToZ on the Xfce Forum:

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/usr/bin/vlc cdda:///dev/cdrom

Did not work, even after logging out/in. Also tried substituting sr0 for cdrom without success.

Other suggestions?

[joany]

The only suggestion I have is that maybe /dev/cdrom isn't the right device for MX-14. I'm thinking /dev/sr0 or something of that nature might work.

[dolphin_oracle]

it works for me if thunar has been started at least once already. that's in a VM. I haven't tried on a real system yet.

[Jerry3904]

The only suggestion I have is that maybe /dev/cdrom isn't the right device for MX-14. I'm thinking /dev/sr0 or something of that nature might work.

But thanks

Also tried substituting sr0 for cdrom without success.

[dolphin_oracle]

just tried on my real laptop.

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vlc cdda:///dev/sr0

and

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vlc cdda:///dev/cdrom

worked on my system, but thunar had to be open for the autostart to take place. having the thunar daemon running in the background wasn't enough. Once Thunar had been open once, subsequent cd insertions work fine.

[Jerry3904]

On my system, only /dev/sr0 works and Thunar must be open every time.

[Gaer Boy]

vlc cdda:///dev/sr0 works fine for me. I don't normally use Thunar, and I think I have only opened it on this install to disable auto-mounting of removable drives. I normally have SpaceFM open, but CD autoplay works whether it is open or not.

Phil

[Marinos]

The setting "vlc cdda:///dev/cdrom" failed on me too. Actually VLC
displayed this message when an audio CD was inserted:

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Your input can't be opened:
          VLC is unable to open the MRL 'cdda:///dev/cdrom'.
          Check the log for details

But no details were given in VLC's log (it can be viewed by clicking
Tools -> Messages, preferably with the verbosity set to "2" (debug).)

However, the setting "vlc cdda:///dev/sr0" worked fine, even after
a fresh reboot, without Thunar having ever been launched ahead
of loading the audio CD.
It should be noted that in my system (MX-14.2 32-bit) the device
/dev/cdrom is clearly soft-linked to /dev/sr0, so it's really a mystery
why VLC didn't like /dev/cdrom. Probably a glitch.