Re: Slow CD spin speed playing music in Windows XP

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"Stephen" <Stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:7B845268-A720-4718-A5A5-28103D8075A9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I like to listen to music while using my computer. When I play CDs they spin
at maximum drive speed - this is incredibly noisy. This occurs regardless of
the music software I use.

Is it possible to change the spin speed to 1x? I figure there should be a
setting somewhere in the registry, but wouldn't have a clue where (and am not
technically competent enough to search for it).

Not really a windows media question, more of an OS question, but there are ways to set the speed of reading from the drive. I have Nero installed for my DVD burner and through their drive speed tool, I can drop the read speed down to 8x. I believe that there may be a free download of the software available.


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