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Ripping CDs
It is not necessary to run Asunder as root: just add your username to the cd-rom group, then restart your chroot. Likewise, add your username to hwaudio to gain control over audio hardware. Thanks, James
Having had a six-year-old Acer Aspire One finally fail and wanting to move on from my eight-year-old desktop, (both running Linux Mint) and having read about crouton, I bought a Chromebook and a Chromebox, at a total cost of US$ 320 + tax, with the aim of setting them up the same and doing all my computing on them. While I was sorry not to be able to continue to use Mint, I have found Ubuntu with XFCE easy to set up and use, and I am pleased to be able to report that all software (including Apache with PHP and LaTeX) and hardware (an old OKI laser printer, Wi-Fi, my portable hard drive, and now even the CD/DVD reader/writer) is now working. The only piece of hardware that gave me hard time was the CD reader/writer, which I use to convert my CDs into (legal!!) MP3 files to carry around with me.
- Acer Chromebox CN60
- Samsung Portable DVD Writer SE-208
- Asunder (+ its dependencies)
- lame (for making mp3 files)
(but all of the steps below should also work on other hardware.)
My first worry was that the drive was making the right kind of noises when plugged in, BUT there were no /dev/sr0 or /dev/cdrom to be found, nor was VLC able to play the tracks. After a LONG time I realised that even a USB 3 port does not provide enough energy, but using a Y-cable instead to combine the power of two ports, /dev/sr0 and /dev/cdrom were now created.
I knew, from another website, (thanks!) that I had to change the permissions from 660 to 664, and now I was able to play CDs with VLC and view the tracks, with the information from the CDDB database, in Asunder.
(At this stage already, I think, I would have been able to view DVDs using VLC as well but I didn't try it.)
BUT nothing happened when I clicked on Rip in Asunder. After another LONG time I realised that I had to run Asunder as root: when I did, the program created the mp3 files in the folder that I had chosen /home/user/Music.
(I had had the same issue with simple-scan: the program starts up, but I have to run it as root for the scanning to happen. So the command in the menu is now:
gksudo simple-scan
BUT when I wanted to delete my trial files, I noticed that they had been created by the user root, so I had to change their permissions before being able to move or rename them.
So, to make things simple for myself, I created a script called asunder.sh with the following content:
#!/bin/sh
chmod -R 664 /dev/sr0
asunder
wait
sleep 1
chown -R myname:myname /home/myname/Music
and made this file executable. Then in the menu I edited the command to start Asunder to (- but this could also be a launcher on the desktop):
gksudo /path/to/asunder.sh
So now, I just plug my CD/DVD reader/writer into two USB ports, load the CD I want to rip and select Asunder from the menu. (Having changed the permissions of /dev/sr0 I can of course also watch DVDs.)