Playing an audio CD with audacious

Pardon my ignorance, I've been away from Arch for a few months, but how can I play an audio CD using the audacious music player. I have 2 DVD/CDROM drives, but I can't find either one listed anywhere on any menu under audacious. I'm sure I used to do this. Maybe a recent system upgrade somehow caused that capabiligy to be lost? Any suggestions?
Thanks

For me, there is nothing under the Services menu.
If I start audacious from a terminal window I get just this, which appears to be an informational message:
$ audacious
(bootstrap.c:60) [mowgli_init]: mowgli_init() is a deprecated function, provided only for backwards compatibility with Mowgli-1. You should remove it if you no longer support using Mowgli-1.

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