From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040929 Firefox/0.10 Description of problem: gnome-cd does not display cddb information. At least not until the cd player applet if first run, the gnome-cd cddb works fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-media-2.8.0-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.insert cd 2.run gnome-cd 3. Actual Results: CDs would play but cddb info not displayed. First CD attempted is somewhat obsure so I repeated with several top-selling discs. Expected Results: cddb info displayed in player. Additional info: 1) Running from command line gives the following: ** (gnome-cd:8812): WARNING **: Could not contact CDDB server 2) cddb works for sound-juicer and grip. 3) If I use grip on a CD, it saves the cddb file to ~/.cddb. If I then open gnome-cd the cddb info is displayed and the same file appears in ~/.cddbslave (I'll be opening another bug for these to share a dir). Sound juicer doesn't have this effect. 4) Looking for other cd apps to try, I added the cd player applet to my panel. It doesn't display cddb info, but... 5) gnome-cd cddb info now works! Even if I put in a CD never previously loaded on this PC.
And if you remove ~/.cddb it stops working again?
Sorry for the delay. ~/.cddb seems to be a grip only dir. I didn't have this dir as of step 5) above. ~/.cddbslave is relevant. At one point last week I was deleting the .cddbslave directory and having the problem. I had to use a 'fresh' cd and no ~/.cddbslave. But sometimes this scenario did work. Always worked if .cddbslave present and/or if the CD had been inserted previously. So tonight I created some new user and inserted some new CD. Track listing d/l successfully each time. I considered it closed.
Thanks for the update.