CD Auto Runner

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Automatically starts the player of your choice as soon as an audio CD is inserted. Made for KDE Plasma 6 and GNOME; works in any Linux desktop with udev and systemd.

Tested on Fedora 44 and 45 with GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.7 and 6.8.

Features

• A built-in player, or any installed one, including Flatpak and Snap.
• Rips discs to your Music folder (FLAC, Opus, Ogg, MP3, WAV) with tags and cover art.
• Track titles from MusicBrainz, CD-TEXT or entered by hand.
• Library, playlists and your own albums from digital copies.
• Albums sorted by artist, title, date added or year.
• A blacklist: albums leave the library and songs are skipped.
• All tracks of one artist in the library: open them or play only them from the album or track menu.
• Disc actions in Disks & Devices (Plasma) and the app icon menu (GNOME).
• Media keys and desktop media controls (MPRIS).
• English and Ukrainian interface.

Installation

curl -fsSL https://github.com/@raw/PanVena/cd-auto-runner/main/install.sh | bash

The installer asks for the language, the app window and the player. There are three window options:

--gui	Window
qt	Qt (PySide6)
gtk	GTK 4 (libadwaita), native to GNOME
none	No window: just starts the chosen player, no built-in player

To change your choice, run the installer again. For other options, see ./install.sh --help; with curl, pass them after bash -s --.

Usage

cd-auto-runner settings        the app window
cd-auto-runner choose          choose a player
cd-auto-runner play [/dev/sr0] start the player manually
cd-auto-runner rip             rip the disc to the library
cd-auto-runner tag             enter track titles
cd-auto-runner eject           eject the disc
cd-auto-runner status          settings and service state
cd-auto-runner --help          all commands

Settings: ~/.config/cd-auto-runner/config.

Players

VLC and mpv play the disc directly. The built-in player, Audacious, Elisa and QMPlay2 get ripped tracks. GNOME Audio Player (Decibels) opens only one file, so it gets the whole disc as one track, with no skipping between songs. Any other player gets cdda://.

To add a player, copy an adapter from players/ to ~/.config/cd-auto-runner/players/ and edit it.

Known issues

• Flatpak players need extra permissions; choose offers to grant them.
• To read the drive, you need access to /dev/sr0 (usually the cdrom group or the active session).

Uninstall

~/.local/share/cd-auto-runner/uninstall.sh   # --purge also removes the settings

Ripped albums are kept.

License

GPL-2.0-only