Howto Turn Off Auto-Play of CDs,DVDs and iPods in Ubuntu -- Ubuntu Geek

Howto Turn Off Auto-Play of CDs,DVDs and iPods in Ubuntu

Posted by admin on September 28th, 2007 Email This Post

Ubuntu automatically starts playing audio or video discs when you insert them into CD/DVD drive.If you want to turnoff this use the following tip.

Go to System—>Preferences—>Removable Drives and Media

Once it Opens You should see the following screen

Now you need to click on Multimedia tab you can just uncheck the box for the disc type you don’t want to autoplay

Once you unselect all the options you should see similar to the following screen now you need to click on close

If you are using Feisty by default this is unchecked.

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Costas Says:
June 11th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
It doesn’t work like this any more in Hardy Heron, instead the settings can be found in Nautilus (the file browser) under Edit->Preferences->Media . See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=713724 for more details.