#1 2018-04-17 02:18:35

copper

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Autorun audio CDs (VLC)

Hi!

I am a new user of Bunsenlabs. I can run an audio CD opening it manually in VLC Media Player but I can't find how to make it run automatically when I insert the CD.

Thanks for your help

ohnonot

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Re: Autorun audio CDs (VLC)

Menu => Edit => Preferences => Advanced:

Configure the management etc. => Storage => you can choose a command for audio CDs

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johnraff

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Re: Autorun audio CDs (VLC)

^This is in Thunar, the file manager by the way, not VLC, and you want the [Multimedia] tab.
I'm using mpv now, but I think the command I used for vlc was 'vlc cdda://'

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copper

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Re: Autorun audio CDs (VLC)

Hi!

Well... I tried the command with VLC, MPV and Audacious but it doesn't work.

ohnonot

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Re: Autorun audio CDs (VLC)

strange, it works on my system (i don't even use thunar usually).
it ahould at least open the media player.
are you sure you cd drive and the cd in question work at all???

and "doesn't work" is never a good problem description

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copper

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Registered: 2018-04-17

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Re: Autorun audio CDs (VLC)

strange, it works on my system (i don't even use thunar usually).
it ahould at least open the media player.
are you sure you cd drive and the cd in question work at all???

and "doesn't work" is never a good problem description

Hi!

hahaha Yes, that's right... "doesn't work" is not very descriptive. After inserting the CDs the media player doesn't even open. But I can play the CDs when I load them manually on the media player.

Jimbo_G

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Re: Autorun audio CDs (VLC)

This works fine for me. I used the following commands, for audio CDs:

vlc cdda://

and for DVDs:

vlc dvd://

The following thread may be useful for those having problems, it explains how to start Thunar as a daemon: https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=4847

Both steps (Thunar daemon and Thunar preferences) are necessary for autorun if Thunar isn't open.