Project

General

Profile

Support #1015

Failed to query the CDDB server

Added by Haines Brown over 3 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Minor
Assignee:
-
Category:
plugins/cdaudio
Target version:
-
Start date:
August 15, 2020
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Affects version:

Description

Audacious 3.10.1-1 reinstalled during a reinstall of Devuan Beowulf (fork of Debian Linux that eliminates systemd) operating system. When Audacious started by user or by root an error: "Failed to query CDDB server: connection error". Also track names not seen, but appear simply as track 1, track 2... The error pops up when I click Play CD and sometimes at end of last track. Did not have the error with a previous installation of Devuan Beowulf.

The error is repeated. Removing and reinstalling Audacious did not help.

I don't know if significant, but $/lib/udev/cdrom_id --debug /dev/sr0 returns a set of lines like this: "GET CONFIGURATION: feature 0x0001 <ignored>, with 0x08 bytes."

Probably irrelevant is that Audacious 4.0.5 changed its default CDDB server to gnud.db.org (issue #994)

Installing gvfs0backends and gpxtool did not help. I do not have access to a totem-plugins-extra package.

Should I have a line like cddbpath=///.cddbslave in the Audacity config file? My ~/.cddbslave was not created by the installation of Audacious but had to be copied over from the prior installation.

When Audacious is started from a terminal I get:

Verifying drive can read CDDA...
Expected command set reads OK.
ERROR util.cc:269 [audgui_simple_message]: Failed to query the CDDB
server: connection error
ALSA lib pcm.c:8424:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred
ERROR util.cc:269 [audgui_simple_message]: Failed to query the CDDB
server: connection error
Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom...
CDROM sensed: ASUS DRW-24B1ST j 1.11 SCSI
CD-ROM*

Audio-CD-Plugin-Settings.png (66.4 KB) Audio-CD-Plugin-Settings.png Thomas Lange, August 19, 2020 20:02

History

#1 Updated by Thomas Lange over 3 years ago

  • Assignee deleted (Haines Brown)
  • Category set to plugins/cdaudio

Isn't #994 exactly the same problem as you have? freedb.org servers has been shut down [1].
Configure "gnudb.gnudb.org" as server in the Audio CD input plugin. This is now the default setting since Audacious 4.0.5.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedb#History

#2 Updated by Haines Brown over 3 years ago

Thanks to Thomas Lange I'm better informed, but my basic question remains. I'm running Audacious 3.10.1-1 under Devuan Beowulf. I need to point Audacioua to the freedb/dbpoweramp.com CDDB server. What line should I add to which configuration file?

#3 Updated by Thomas Lange over 3 years ago

Like already explained, you can change it in the settings of the Audio CD plugin. See the attached screenshot.

#4 Updated by John Lindgren over 3 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed

Also available in: Atom PDF