WMP9 Won't Play CDs Monday, February 27, 2006 at 10:58 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by kbr (9 messages posted) Hi, all. Win98SE, Samsung CD-ROM SC-148F, Lite-on DVDRW SOHW-1653S cd-rom drives I cannot play CDs with WMP9. This is independent of which cd-rom drive I use. When clicking the cd-rom drive, or trying to open one of the .cda files therein, WMP gives me an error message saying that it “...encountered an error when reading the CD-ROM in digital mode. Click “OK” to switch to analog mode”. (The same happens when I insert a CD and WMP opens in response.) Clicking OK gives another message: “WMP encountered an error when reading the CD-ROM in digital mode. You can try to use digital mode again, or you can switch the player to analog mode”. It doesn’t say how to switch to analog mode, but in the Help pages I found: “Your hardware (CD-ROM drive and speakers) determines whether you can play tracks by using digital or analog audio. You should select the settings that work best with your hardware.” and... "To use digital playback - On the Tools menu, click Options. - Click the Devices tab. - In Devices, select the CD-ROM drive, and then click Properties. - In Playback, click Digital." Clicking on Tools\Options\Devices shows me my CD drives, but selecting properties produces nothing – no “Properties”. However, the little Windows CD-Player (Start/Programs/Accessories/Entertainment/CD Player) plays disks in the cd-rom drive OK. And so does Winamp. In all other aspects, WMP works fine – mp3, wav, mpg...etc. I have reinstalled WMP9 and the k-lite Codec Pack, to no avail. Any ideas, anyone? Regards, kb-r Responses to this message: re: WMP9 Won't Play CDs (Carl: Monday, February 27, 2006 at 1:59 pm) re: WMP9 Won't Play CDs (bob wells: Monday, February 27, 2006 at 10:39 pm) re: WMP9 Won't Play CDs - Solved (well, "resolved") (kbr: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 2:16 am) All messages in this thread [show all] WMP9 Won't Play CDs (kbr: Mon, Feb 27, 2006, 10:58 am) re: WMP9 Won't Play CDs (Carl: Mon, Feb 27, 2006, 1:59 pm) re: WMP9 Won't Play CDs (bob wells: Mon, Feb 27, 2006, 10:39 pm) re:oops! (bob wells: Mon, Feb 27, 2006, 10:43 pm) re: WMP9 Won't Play CDs - Solved (well, "resolved") (kbr: Tue, Feb 28, 2006, 2:16 am) re: WMP9 Won't Play CDs -- Attaboy (gewg_: Tue, Feb 28, 2006, 12:04 pm) re: WMP9 Won't Play CDs -- Attaboy (kbr: Tue, Feb 28, 2006, 3:14 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum