Re: now I can't play audio CDs


If you roll back DVD firmware, does that get it ripping again?

You can change display modes in WMP11 - album art is only one of the modes.

How's the garbage eating goat out there in Spokane? =)

-Zach
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<cpaukstis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I recently fiddled around with various audio and DVD settings, trying
to get DVDs to play back without choppy audio. What finally cured that
was a DVD drive firmware update from Dell. In the course of fooling
around
with that I uninstalled various codecs, and uninstalled and
re-installed Windows Media Player. I upgraded to WMP11 Beta, didn't
like it (not being able to get RID OF the Album Art display and get a
simple datagrid display is a deal-breaker for me), reverted,
uninstalled, re-installed WMP10 and probably did some more nefarious
poking around I don't remember. But everything was working fine...

Until I got a couple of new CDs to rip. WMP won't rip them. Doesn't
SEE them as audio tracks to be ripped. Turns out it won't play regular
audio CDs, either. Telling it to play an audio CD results in a dialog
box: "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. If the file is on
another computer, verify that you are connected to the network. If you
typed a path, verify that it is correct. If the problem persists, the
server might not be available". The "More information" button leads
to a help page about network streaming and stuff.

I think it's very surprised to know that it can't play a file on a
local audio CD, and puts up a generic error message.

If I look at the drive in Windows Explorer, I see a bunch of .cda
files, all with WMP icons, as expected. If I double-click one of those
files , it launches WMP and gives me the error dialog noted above. I
believe the file-association is correct.

iTunes on the same laptop won't play or rip audio CDs either. It's
somewhat less helpful, just pretending they don't exist at all.

I've tried:
- The above uninstalls, reinstalls, etc. Including rolling back and
un-checking WMP in Add/Remove Windows Components, thn installing 9,
then upgrading to 10, etc.
- Different audio CDs. They work fine in another computer. They work
fine in THIS computer, alternate-booted from XP/MCE in another
partition.
- Googling for various stuff like "WMP won't play audio CDs". I get
dead-ends about audio cables disconnected, file associations wrong,
not having Digital Audio enabled for the drive, etc. No joy.

Yes, I HAVE previously played (and ripped) audio CDs in this drive on
this laptop with this same OS installation. I don't remember exactly
when was the last time. Pretty new Dell Inspiron E1705 with NEC
DVD+-RW6550A drive, Windows XP Pro (and Windows XP Media Center Editin,
and Suse 10.1)

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Carl Paukstis
carlp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Spokane, Washington, USA



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