I am completely fed up with the noise and repeated glitches on my old built-in optical drive so I bought a Froibetz pop-up mobile external dvd-rw reader.
This connects via USB3 or Channel C and claims to be Linux Chrome compatible (isn't that Linux?) When I connect up both via USB 3.0 and C - it is now at least being recognised but when I go to play a track on Audacious it stalls at first track. I get message:
Error playing cdda://sr1/Track%201.wav: Error reading metadata
I suspect I need to install a driver but unsure how to start doing that. Any help would be welcome. I run Ubuntu 20.04 and don't have windows installed.