Exaile not playing audio CD's

[laplume]

Hello,
Currently using Salix 14.0.1 xfce. I tried to play an audio cd with exaile but the Disc Tag does not appear on the player's main window. Under Preferences the plugin for audio CD playing seems to be installed and active but still no possibility to play the disc with Exaile.
If I try to play a single .wav file with Exaile an error message displays only 'uridecodebin0' .
Also tried to start exaile through terminal, maybe the output may offer further clues:

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INFO    : Loading Exaile 3.3.0-dev...
INFO    : Loading settings...
** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)
INFO    : Loading plugins...
INFO    : Loading collection...
INFO    : Loading devices...
WARNING : Failed to connect to HAL, autodetection of devices will be disabled.

Any way to fix this?
Thanks for support
Antonio

[mimosa]

Do other players work, such as mplayer?

I'm very puzzled that it's asking about HAL, which is ancient history as far as I understand it.

[laplume]

Hello mimosa,

Yes, mplayer can currently play .wav file with no issue. I assume that HAL was deprecated by Salckware/Salix by now, maybe something was not correctly set during the build of Exaile.
In case, I will will still be using Mplayer for the time being but of course if I can use the default applications it would be far better.
Regards,
Antonio

[gapan]

Can you try with parole? I think exaile's audio-cd plugin is old and deprecated because it uses hal.

[laplume]

Hello Gapan,
Yes, Parole can play audio CD's. How can I associate this application to autostart audio-cd's?
Thanks, rgds
Antonio

[gapan]

From the xfce settings panel, go to "Removable drives and media". In the multimedia tab, check the audio cd part, and enter this as command:

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parole --device /dev/sr0 --play

haven't actually tried it, but it should work.

[laplume]

From the xfce settings panel, go to "Removable drives and media". In the multimedia tab, check the audio cd part, and enter this as command:

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parole --device /dev/sr0 --play

Hello Gapan,

Yes, the trick worked like a charm. Now I got audio cd autoplay via Parole. The only drawback is that playlist does not display anything but it's a minor detail anyway.

Thanks a lot
Antonio