[Solved] CD/DVD player unusable

[Julius22]

I can't use a CD/DVD player on a computer using Debian 10 trying to read audio CD. I changed the CD/DVD player in my computer with two other ones I have in an other computer (which work normally in this second computer). But I get (quite) the same error messages (see below when trying to use aplay). I tried using several discs with the same result. I read some forum topics but I don't know what can be done in my case. Is there a driver problem? A hardware problem on something else that my player?

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$ aplay /dev/sr0
[129.644810] print_req_error: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
[129.664656] print_req_error: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
[129.664758] Buffer I/O error on dev sr0, logical block 0, async page read
aplay: read_header:2834 erreur de lecture


[Bulkley]

I have never used aplayer so I stuck in a music disk. Up popped my file manager (Pcmanfm) showing the disk contents which plays what I select. All normal. The big difference from yours is that mine is identified as cdda://sr0/ . Are you sure your /dev/sr0 is correct? A lot of small changes came with Debian 10; is this one of them?

Edited to add; I tried entering cdda://sr0/ in a terminal.

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~$ cdda://sr0/
bash: cdda://sr0/: No such file or directory

I think it's not mounting properly.

[sunrat]

Does the CD/DVD drive work with data discs? Has it worked in the past and now stopped working?

[Julius22]

Thanks for you replies.

Are you sure your /dev/sr0 is correct?

I'm quite sure. If I'm right, you don't need to mount an audio CD to read it. It is confirmed here and there. I don't have MPLayer installed (and don't want to). So I don't know if the MPlayer command works on my computer. But I tried using Mplayer on the computer on which my two other CD/DVD players are installed with both players. And it worked. I didn't try using the player of my problematic PC on the other one though. When I try to mount /dev/sr0 on /media/cdrom (with an audio CD), I get an error message.

Edited to add; I tried entering cdda://sr0/ in a terminal.

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~$ cdda://sr0/
bash: cdda://sr0/: No such file or directory

I get the same result.

Does the CD/DVD drive work with data discs? Has it worked in the past and now stopped working?

Yes, it works with a data CD (which is good to know). It has also worked in the past. But I can't remember if it already worked with an audio CD since I use Debian 10. So now, I'm still wondering how to use audio CDs.

[Bulkley]

So now, I'm still wondering how to use audio CDs.

This subject comes up in Internet searches. You have company. Apparently audio CDs are harder to mount than a data CD.

This works for me:

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~$ mpv cdda://

Check this Bunsen Labs thread.

[Julius22]

After searching a little bit more, I wonder if aplay is able to play audio CDs. So I installed a command-line player: cmus. It is able to read and play the CD I was trying to read!

Now, I need to find how to configure MythTV in order to play this CD (which is what I initially wanted to do). But this is an other story. Thanks anyway for your help.