Re: probs with WMP9

From: zachd [ms] (zachd_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/06/04 

Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 02:07:23 -0800

WMP's great at ripping CDs, but the burner is in my opinion sub-optimal -
Roxio and Nero (especially Nero, to my eyes) produce hugely significantly
better for-pay burners than the free sample burner WMP includes. But you
get what you pay for. :)

 http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html#xpcdburn
may help with the burning, but... I don't know what's slowing you down.

-Zach 

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"Rousseaux" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:a3fb01c3eb67$c1d20030$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> We recently upgraded to WMP9 and are now having problems
> playing back music and copying CDs (both from CD to the
> player and from WMP to a CD).  Before everything was
> really fast, now the player seems to get stuck during the
> most basic operations.  When copying to a CD finally
> starts, the progress is up there in tortoise & snail
> rankings!  CDS that used to take 15 minutes to copy/burn
> are taking 3-4 HOURS!  We also noticed a new process in
> the burning stage: "inspecting."  We don't remember ever
> seeing this before in past versions.  Any advice?
>
> Music is my husband's life -- both professionally and
> privately -- but he's hardly hi-tech.  He just started
> getting really into the computer and mixing his own CDs
> and stuff, and I have run through my basic repetoire of
> computer skills in trying to fix this.
>
> FYI, we have Windows XP, and I don't know if part of the
> problem could be our recent upgrade to MSN Premium and the
> connected McAfee virus protection and firewall...
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide!
>
> J & O Rousseaux
>
> PS -- On a separate note, if we can work this out, is WMP9
> up to handling my husband copying his full CD library to
> the computer and managing his music that way, or is there
> something else we should be looking into?

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