Ok...nevermind this. It seems rebooting (on my laptop so far) has solved this problem. I suppose it could be that I hadn't rebooted since some recent updates, though I can only guess. Mike Leahy wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm not unfamiliar to playing and/or ripping audio CDs in Linux. I have > done this a number of times using GRip and KAudioCreator on Fedora 6/7, > with both my desktop and laptop. However, I just put one into my > machine today and found that I can no longer play audio CDs on either of > my machines running Fedora 7. At first I thought it was a problem with > the CD, but I have the same problem with other CDs that I have > successfully ripped before. > > If I look at the Audio CD in Konqueror, it seems that the file structure > is already listed as a series of folders (CDA, Full CD, Information, > MP3, and Ogg Vorbis), with the tracks identified as wav files, or linked > as different file types in various sub folders. I've never noticed this > before - could it be a source of the problem? I can copy the files from > the 'MP3' folder in Konqueror, and it seems to be able to encode them > that way, but would be preventing all other applications that use CDs > from working? > > Thanks for any suggestions, > Mike >