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re: WMP9 Won't Play CDs
Monday, February 27, 2006 at 10:39 pm
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Posted by bob wells (1591 messages posted)


kbr,

Open WMP, click on tools, select options, click on the File Types tab and put a check 
mark in "Play Music CD"

bw






On Monday, February 27, 2006 at 10:58 am, kbr wrote:
>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



Written in response to:
WMP9 Won't Play CDs (kbr: Monday, February 27, 2006 at 10:58 am)

Responses to this message:
*re:oops! (bob wells: Monday, February 27, 2006 at 10:43 pm)

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)
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