Music CD not detected in Debian 13

Question

I newly installed Debian 13 and wanted to rip a music CD. I inserted the CD but I cannot access to the info from the CD. The icon does not appear in the desktop. What can I do to play the CD?

Output of lsblk -atpo +HOTPLUG:

NAME ALIGNMENT MIN-IO OPT-IO PHY-SEC LOG-SEC ROTA SCHED       RQ-SIZE  RA WSAME HOTPLUG
/dev/sda
│            0    512      0     512     512    0 mq-deadline      64 128    0B       0
└─/dev/sda1
             0    512      0     512     512    0 mq-deadline      64 128    0B       0
/dev/sdb
│            0    512      0     512     512    0 mq-deadline      64 128    0B       0
├─/dev/sdb1
│            0    512      0     512     512    0 mq-deadline      64 128    0B       0
├─/dev/sdb2
│            0    512      0     512     512    0 mq-deadline      64 128    0B       0
└─/dev/sdb3
             0    512      0     512     512    0 mq-deadline      64 128    0B       0
/dev/sdc
│            0    512      0     512     512    1 mq-deadline      64 128    0B       0
└─/dev/sdc1
             0    512      0     512     512    1 mq-deadline      64 128    0B       0
/dev/sdd
│            0   4096      0    4096     512    1 mq-deadline      60 128    0B       0
├─/dev/sdd1
│         3072   4096      0    4096     512    1 mq-deadline      60 128    0B       0
└─/dev/sdd2
             0   4096      0    4096     512    1 mq-deadline      60 128    0B       0

Answer 1

There's usually no reason for an icon to appear on the desktop. (Which desktop are you using, by the way? Debian's default desktop environment, Gnome, doesn't do icons on the desktop at all!)

Typically, your file manager (which one you're using depends¹) will show an "Audio Disc", which, when you click on it, often displays something like .wav files that you can directly drag and drop (or copy and paste) to your home directory - that's the whole ripping process.

However, it's pretty likely that's not quite what you want – often, there will be no title information, and you might want to encode the audio as OPUS, OGG or losslessly as FLAC (or as the, in modern terms, very bad, MP3, so don't use MP3) audio.

It makes more sense to deal with your audio CD in a Audio Player program. I will assume that Rhythmbox is the audio player that came with your desktop environment¹. If not, it is easy to install from your desktop environment's software management program, it's part of debian.

I then click on the Audio CD symbol on the left (sometimes, as in this case, the album title is already automatically filled in; other times, expect it to say "Audio CD" where it currently says "Images and Words").

I click on the audio CD, and get the track listing:

Now, with all the tracks selected (if they not already are, select one, press ctrl+a), I drag and drop the tracks to "Music".

The rest just happens automatically; you get a "copying tracks to libary" progress bar:

That's it! You just ripped your CD. You'll find the resulting files a) well-organized in Rhythmbox' library, should you want to use it to play them, anyways, and b) under your home directory's "Music" directory.

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′ … depending on the desktop environment that you use!