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I want to burn a CD using Rhythmbox. I cannot get it to work. I want to find out why but more I want to learn how to debug a problem like this, which occurs pretty much any time I try to do anything in Ubuntu.

This page says "Right click on the created or desired playlist and select Create Audio CD". My first question is, why does it say that when right clicking on a Playlist in Rhythmbox does not produce a context menu? Are these instructions years and years out of date or were they always wrong since the beginning?

This page is helpful, explaining that I first need to enable the Audio CD Recorder plugin, then find the menu item in the Playlist menu. I would do that except my plugins list doesn't have Audio CD Recorder and that menu item is missing. My second question is, how do I figure out where that plugin went? Every other Rhythmbox user in the world seems to have it.

Looking for the plugin, I googled "Rhythmbox plugins" and the first link is to this page which literally doesn't exist.

So I have failed to solve this on my own and I'd like to learn better ways to do that in the future.

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Lets start with rhythmbox package dependencies. On my 16.04 LTS:

$ apt-cache depends rhythmbox
rhythmbox
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libglib2.0-0
  Depends: libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0
  Depends: libgstreamer1.0-0
  Depends: libgtk-3-0
  Depends: libpeas-1.0-0
  Depends: librhythmbox-core9
  Depends: libtotem-plparser18
  Depends: libx11-6
  Depends: python3
  Depends: python3
  Depends: python3.5
  Depends: rhythmbox-data
  Depends: dbus
    dbus:i386
  Depends: gstreamer1.0-plugins-base
  Depends: gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
  Depends: adwaita-icon-theme
  Depends: gstreamer1.0-x
  Depends: media-player-info
  Depends: gir1.2-rb-3.0
  Depends: gir1.2-glib-2.0
  Depends: gir1.2-gtk-3.0
  Depends: python3-gi
  Depends: libpeas-1.0-0-python3loader
  Breaks: gvfs
  Recommends: yelp
  Recommends: avahi-daemon
    avahi-daemon:i386
  Recommends: notification-daemon
    dunst
    awn-applet-awn-notification-daemon
    cinnamon
    gnome-shell
    lxqt-notificationd
    mate-notification-daemon
    notify-osd
    plasma-workspace
    python-jarabe
    xfce4-notifyd
  Recommends: gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio
  Recommends: gvfs-backends
    gvfs-backends:i386
  Recommends: rhythmbox-plugins
  Recommends: rhythmbox-plugin-zeitgeist
  Suggests: gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
  Suggests: <gnome-codec-install>
    sessioninstaller
 |Suggests: gnome-control-center
  Suggests: unity-control-center
  Suggests: rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder # <--- seems to be CD recording one

So I assume that sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder will fix the problem (it uses Brasero as CD/DVD writer).

And make sure that you have enabled Audio CD Recorder in Rhythmbox (go to Tools -> Plugins, checkbox Audio CD Recorder should be checked).

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  • Thank you. I will educate myself on apt-cache, a tool I haven't used before. Installing that package and enabling the Plugin worked for me, I sure wish that step was part of the instructions spread around the internet.
    – Alottobede
    Jan 29, 2018 at 8:56

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