Cannot play audio CD with Creative MediaSource Pla

Hi All,
I recently installed an Audigy 2 ZS Platinum soundcard and the Creative MediaSource Player software. I also purchased Creative 5. Analog speakers. Have everything configured pretty well now and really enjoying the enhanced sounds!
My problem is that I cannot play audio CDs using the MediaSource Player. I can see my DVD Player and CD Player in the MediaSource Player 'Source' column and a list of all the tracks on the CD. (no track info, just track numbers and length)
When I double-click on a track it cycles through all the tracks and then places an 'X' next to each one in the 'Now Playing' list window. If I have other music files from my harddri've available, it will start playing one of them.
I've tried different CDs with the same results.
I can use both the DVD and CD dri'ves to play an audio CD if I use any other player (Winamp, Windows Media Player, etc.) and use both dri'ves everyday for loading software and reading files. It will also read the demo DVD Audio disk that came with the card using the DVD-Audio player they provide so I'm pretty sure there's nothing wrong with the hardware or drivers.
I've read all the info that came with the card and on the Creative Web site and have been through every configuration screen multiple times but haven't found a switch that turns this feature on.
Would like to get this working so I can standardize on one player that allows me to use all the advanced features of my new card.
Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this.
Jay Perez

A good way to see what kinds of things you might need for something like vlc is to look at the optional dependencies for the package.  So if you do pacman -Qi vlc if the package is installed on your system already, or pacman -Si vlc if not yet installed, you can see in the output what kinds of optional dependencies there are.  Typically there is a short description of the extra functionality that the optional dependency can provide as well. 
So in the case of vlc (and the libcdio optional dep) I get:
$ pacman -Qi vlc
Name           : vlc
<SNIP>
Optional Deps  : avahi: for service discovery using bonjour protocol [installed]
                 <SNIP SOME MORE>
                 projectm: for ProjectM visualisation plugin
                 libcaca: for colored ASCII art video output [installed]
                 libgme: for libgme plugin [installed]
                 librsvg: for SVG plugin [installed]
                 gnome-vfs: for GNOME Virtual File System support
                 libgoom2: for libgoom plugin
                 vcdimager: navigate VCD with libvcdinfo [installed]
                 xosd: for xosd support
                 aalib: for ASCII art plugin [installed]
                 libmtp: for MTP devices support [installed]
                 smbclient: for SMB access plugin [installed]
                 libcdio: for audio CD playback support [installed]
                 ttf-freefont: for subtitle font
                 ttf-dejavu: for subtitle font [installed]
                 opus: for opus support [installed]
                 libssh2: for sftp support [installed]
<SNIP>
Last edited by WonderWoofy (2013-08-24 18:45:56)

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