I put this here because it seems like it has to be something wrong with the Windows XP OS files or the registry.
Although I hadn't tried it in a couple of months, XP used to play music CDs. I want that for checking if music CDRs are burned correctly. But it doesn't play regular commercial music CDs either. Both the CDR and DVDROM still read data CDs with files on them normally. They both still autoplay and bring up Media Player 9 to play the music CDs when I insert one. "My Computer" changes what it lists for the CDROMs to "Audio CD" when a music CD is inserted in either, so XP knows a CD is there, and knows it is an audio CD. Media Player 9 says
"
The selected file has a file scheme that is not recoginzed by Windows
Media Player, but the Player may be able to play it. Because the
extension is unknown by the Player, you should be sure that the file
comes from a trustworthy source.
Do you want the Player to try to play the file?"
It ask that for each song on the CD, 18 times for 18 songs.
After this, if I click the play button, it says
"Windows Media Player cannot find the specified file. Be sure
the path is typed correctly. If it is, the file does not exist at the
specified location, or the computer where the file is stored is
offline."
If I go into "My Computer" and right click to bring up the menu, and select "Open", I get a list of files with names like "Track18.cda", each of which has a size of 1K, a type of CD Audio Trak, and a date modified of 12/31.1994 8:04 PM, for the CD I just put in, a commecial CD.
Both CDROMs are set to play music digitally in Device Manager
I can't find any reason XP does this. I have a multiple boot setup on this computer for testing purposes, and linux. If I boot a different installation of XP on a different partition, music CDs play normally, so it isn't a hardware problem. It is only the installation that I actually use which has this problem. If I double click on a CDROM, it goes through the Media Player routine.
Other players I have do the same thing. They won't recognize that music CDs have anything they can play.
This is a new installation of Windows Media Player 9 which I tried in the hope of curing the problem. Until this morning I had version 8.
Maybe I installed some Internet music playing program a few months ago, that some site wanted me to, so I could view some fancy media pizazz, and then uninstalled it. I don't really remember. Audio has been fine. I can still play MP3s and Wave files, and MPGs that have audio. I can burn music tracks onto CDs just fine. Games have normal audio. Music samples from Amazon.com play.
I guess reinstalling XP over itself might solve the problem. I am resisting that because I'll have to download for a couple of days to get back all the updates. Beside that, I'd like to figure this out. I just don't have any more ideas or clues. It has to be something minor because everything else is working. I hope some one has seen something like this.
Although I hadn't tried it in a couple of months, XP used to play music CDs. I want that for checking if music CDRs are burned correctly. But it doesn't play regular commercial music CDs either. Both the CDR and DVDROM still read data CDs with files on them normally. They both still autoplay and bring up Media Player 9 to play the music CDs when I insert one. "My Computer" changes what it lists for the CDROMs to "Audio CD" when a music CD is inserted in either, so XP knows a CD is there, and knows it is an audio CD. Media Player 9 says
"
The selected file has a file scheme that is not recoginzed by Windows
Media Player, but the Player may be able to play it. Because the
extension is unknown by the Player, you should be sure that the file
comes from a trustworthy source.
Do you want the Player to try to play the file?"
It ask that for each song on the CD, 18 times for 18 songs.
After this, if I click the play button, it says
"Windows Media Player cannot find the specified file. Be sure
the path is typed correctly. If it is, the file does not exist at the
specified location, or the computer where the file is stored is
offline."
If I go into "My Computer" and right click to bring up the menu, and select "Open", I get a list of files with names like "Track18.cda", each of which has a size of 1K, a type of CD Audio Trak, and a date modified of 12/31.1994 8:04 PM, for the CD I just put in, a commecial CD.
Both CDROMs are set to play music digitally in Device Manager
I can't find any reason XP does this. I have a multiple boot setup on this computer for testing purposes, and linux. If I boot a different installation of XP on a different partition, music CDs play normally, so it isn't a hardware problem. It is only the installation that I actually use which has this problem. If I double click on a CDROM, it goes through the Media Player routine.
Other players I have do the same thing. They won't recognize that music CDs have anything they can play.
This is a new installation of Windows Media Player 9 which I tried in the hope of curing the problem. Until this morning I had version 8.
Maybe I installed some Internet music playing program a few months ago, that some site wanted me to, so I could view some fancy media pizazz, and then uninstalled it. I don't really remember. Audio has been fine. I can still play MP3s and Wave files, and MPGs that have audio. I can burn music tracks onto CDs just fine. Games have normal audio. Music samples from Amazon.com play.
I guess reinstalling XP over itself might solve the problem. I am resisting that because I'll have to download for a couple of days to get back all the updates. Beside that, I'd like to figure this out. I just don't have any more ideas or clues. It has to be something minor because everything else is working. I hope some one has seen something like this.
