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Cannot Extract music from CD (iTunes format)

Asked by mac173

I am trying to transfer all my music from iTunes to Rhythmbox. I burned CD's in iTunes in the iTunes format. You have no choice, purchased music cannot be burned in MP3. The first two CD's extracted fine, no problems. When I tried the third one, suddenly I get an error message "cannot read from source". Now, I can PLAY the songs from the CD, but it says it cannot read the CD when I try to copy to library, or if I try to Extract.

First, it asks me "Do you want to overwrite the file "01 - Track 1.oga"?" I do not have a file of that name in the library.

When I say "Yes", I get the error message "Error transferring track, Could not open resource for writing"

What do I do?

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Bert Van de Poel (bhack) said : 		#1

This sounds like a very unexpected error.
Does this always happen with this CD (even after you restarted) and not with any other one ?

If you want a quick and easy solution: check whether sound-juicer is installed (normally it should be) and use that program, you can find it in the audio and video menu, the item has an icon with a CD which is partly a piece of fruit with a note and the text should be something like "copy music-CDs".

I hope this works out because usability is important to the ubuntu team (we want to be for all human beings).

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mac173 (mac173173) said : 		#2

Ok, I found the problem. When I extracted the audio files, they were being copied to my home directory into a music file. When I updated the information in the library, the music file was NOT being updated. So when I tried to extract the next CD, it saw the original files in the music folder. I deleted the files in the music folder and was able to extract the next CD.

I think the system should update both the library AND the music folder together, so it prevents this problem. When extracting a CD, I was not expecting the program to copy the files to my home folder.