Music CD won't play on computer

[Yohhan]

I recently bought some new music CD's, and for some reason they won't play on my computer. I open my CD drive, and there aren't any music .wav files listed. There's an executable for a music video, but no actual files... is this some sort of anti-piracy deal? I just want to be able to listen while on my computer, and I don't actually have a separate stereo I can use. Any reason why this would be happening?

 

[agnitrate]

The MPAA decided that since people loved to pirate their horrible music that they would encode certain CDs in such a way that standard CD players would be able to read the data since much of it is ignored, but computers would be unable to recognize the format of the disc. You've basically bought a product that doesn't work as it should simply because of the fact that the MPAA isn't able to embrace a new business model where they don't suck.

I'm not sure where to go to find if the specific CD you bought is of this type, but I know a Mariah Carey CD was encoded in this way. Thousands of people who bought it were pissed and rightfully so. I'm sure a quick google search would let you know if your CD falls under this category.

Which artist and album is it?

 

[sswingle]

That would be RIAA.

MPAA=Motion Picture

But they both suck, so....anyways.

 

[Jeff7]

Do you have auto-insert enabled? Some discs had some software drivers that installed automatically when Windows detected the disc. Sometimes the drivers corrupted the registry, or did something that kept the CD drive from working right at all. I don't know though how many discs used this, and if any still do.

 

[FrustratedUser]

A black marker pen comes to mind....

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: Yohhan
I open my CD drive, and there aren't any music .wav files listed.

Music CDs do not have WAV files on them. They really have no files at all - but by RedBook convention, they can be seen most of the time as .CDA files. That is a pseudo file designation that more or less equates to WAV file. In order to see them, your browser must be set to ALL FILES.