Hello all,
I just tried and failed to play a standard music CD in my CD-RW.
I will read al other types of files from the drive, it will tell me there are music files there. But it wont play them. Any idea's

TIA
Neil

Does it try and play them, just no sound? If so, the little audio cable to the sound card may be missing. If not, not sure...

Eric

Nope everything hardware wise is fine. Just wont read *.cda files

You might try taking a black magic marker and go around the outside edge of the CD. Just was told about this so do not know if it works but it won't hurt.

Ken

Some audio CDs are formatted in such a way to prevent play on a computer drive. Make sure you try a couple different CDs.

Try other CDs as Chargin suggested. What do other audio files open with? Is that program capable of reading the CDA's? Can you choose "play" from right clicking that RW drive in My Computer? (Well.. your computer.. ;) )

'Rekd

Are the speakers plugged in and or turned on? Check your connections.

Is this a new computer, or what is the deal? What else have you got installed?

I've never heard of any audio cd that a computer drive could not read. Could not copy maybe, but they should all be readable.

Make sure you have CDDA enabled. You can enable this (keep in mind I'm running a Win2K system, your system may be different) by right clicking on any drive under 'My Computer' and going to properties. Then, select your CD-ROM drive, and select the 'properties' button. From there, select the 'properties' tab, and make sure the box is checked that says, 'Enable Digital CD audio for the CD-ROM Device.'

Jeez Microsoft, do you think there's enough 'properties' boxes? :rainfro:

Make sure you have CDDA enabled. You can enable this (keep in mind I'm running a Win2K system, your system may be different) by right clicking on any drive under 'My Computer' and going to properties. Then, select your CD-ROM drive, and select the 'properties' button. From there, select the 'properties' tab, and make sure the box is checked that says, 'Enable Digital CD audio for the CD-ROM Device.'

Jeez Microsoft, do you think there's enough 'properties' boxes? :rainfro:

0xC00D1197: Cannot play the file
This is the message I get when I try to play music CD's. I've got the CD-digital button checked, tried the otherway. Still nothing. I can access it as any other type of file. I can see the files on the system folder viewer(windows explorer) still can't play them.

Neil

Try installing an app that plays audio CDs. There's a ton of free ones. If it still dosen't work and you have updated your drivers, it's prolly hardware related.

'Rekd

Thanks for the suggestions guys, It was software related. Apparently something I installed changed my registry. There is a line under Local-machine for CDROM = mcidrv.dll or something to that affect that was missing.