http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12363
--- Comment #2 from Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com 2008-04-04 17:48:43 --- Lots of people running into this kind of thing. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=142784&page=8
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2007-June/027348.html has a plausible recipe:
--- snip --- 1. Insert a data CD in the cd-drive. The OS should mount the CD. 2. Run winecfg and set up the CD drive in drives tab. Eg. F:, drive mapping=path = /media/cdrom, in advanced mode set type to CD-ROM. Apply, OK. 3. Run EAC while the DATA CD is inserted in the drive. Set the interface to 'native Win32 interface for WinNT/2000/XP'. Exit EAC. 4. Run EAC again (the DATA CD is still inserted and mounted). EAC should start and show the data CD. Replace the data CD with audio CD without exiting EAC.
A data CD has to be mounted when EAC is started and when winecfg is run. --- snip --- Unfortunately it still hangs for me when starting EAC after setting native win32 interface in eac, either with today's wine, wine-0.9.53, or wine-0.9.42 (though I didn't try reinstalling with the older ones).