abcde error ("CDROM has not been defined or cannot be found")

[Senuf]

Hello.
To the point:
I want to backup many music CDs (starting with a beautiful Billie Holiday one). My goal is ripping each CD to a single FLAC file with a corresponding CUE file (then double backup them to DVDs). After searching for plausible solutions, I ended up with the famous "abcde" thing. Well, whatever I do with abcde I get the following message: "CDROM has not been defined or cannot be found". Even if I write just "abcde" and nothing else.

As far as I got to know, what I need for it to rip a CD in FLAC format was something like this:

~$ abcde -1 -M -p -o flac

I do have a CDROM drive (well, a DVD-RW drive). And that drive works OK in Ubuntu whether I want to listen to some music, read backup CDs and DVDs, watching a movie, writing data, whatever you mention. Just not abcde.

Any hint?

Thanks in advance.

Senuf.

[andrew.46]

Hi Senuf,

~$ abcde -1 -M -p -o flac

This may not help but perhaps try:

~$ abcde -d /dev/cdrom -1 -M -p -o flac

All the best,

Andrew

[Senuf]

Hi Andrew,

Hi Senuf,

This may not help but perhaps try:

~$ abcde -d /dev/cdrom -1 -M -p -o flac

All the best,

Andrew

Hmmmmm...
Didn't work.
All I got was the same line:

[ERROR] abcde: CDROM device cannot be found.

Well, thanks anyway for stopping by.

Let's see if some other idea arises. As for me, I tried every combination I could find, but since I am not a "power user" I guess that there might be a solution lurking out there, somewhere out of my grasp.

Senuf

[mc4man]

run this to double check what /dev links your drive has, look for listing under *-cdrom

sudo lshw -C disk

[Senuf]

run this to double check what /dev links your drive has, look for listing under *-cdrom

sudo lshw -C disk

First, thanks for passing by.
Now, to the point:
I did what you suggested.
The "answer" was this:

  *-disk:0                
       description: ATA Disk
       product: WDC WD800BB-00JK
       vendor: Western Digital
       physical id: 0
       bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/sda
       version: 05.0
       serial: WD-WCAMDA729442
       size: 74GiB (80GB)
       capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
       configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=de42de42
  *-disk:1
       description: ATA Disk
       product: WDC WD800JB-00ET
       vendor: Western Digital
       physical id: 0.1.0
       bus info: scsi@0:0.1.0
       logical name: /dev/sdb
       version: 77.0
       serial: WD-WMAHL1373102
       size: 74GiB (80GB)
       capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
       configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=139b139b
  *-cdrom
       description: DVD writer
       product: DRW-1608P
       vendor: ASUS
       physical id: 1
       bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/cdrom1
       logical name: /dev/cdrw1
       logical name: /dev/dvd1
       logical name: /dev/dvdrw1
       logical name: /dev/scd0
       logical name: /dev/sr0
       version: 1.59
       capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
       configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc

Thanks in advance for any further hint.

Senuf

[mc4man]

Not all that familiar with abcde but using andrew's command as an example change to cdrom1

abcde -d /dev/cdrom1 -1 -M -p -o flac

If you wish it's very simple to set that drive to /dev/cdrom, /dev/dvd, ect. which is what many apps will default to.
(so by default abcde is looking for /dev/cdrom, but you're set as /dev/cdrom1

If so, then run and post this (use a maximized terminal so lines don't get jumbled, will take just a min or less to reset

cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules