CD ROM only reads music files when using media player

When I try to play an audio cd, my cd rom drive will only read the files if
using windows media player. When using musicmatch or sonic record now, the
programs say the cd drive is empty. No files are being read, even though in
the settings of both programs all the types of music files are checked, cda,
mp3, etc. Any ideas? I am baffled, musicmatch used to work for me.
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Troy Bauer

Troy Bauer wrote:

> When I try to play an audio cd, my cd rom drive will only read the files if
> using windows media player. When using musicmatch or sonic record now, the
> programs say the cd drive is empty. No files are being read, even though in
> the settings of both programs all the types of music files are checked, cda,
> mp3, etc. Any ideas? I am baffled, musicmatch used to work for me.

Do you have WMP set as your default player?

This may not help, but occasionally when the CD drive shows empty when I'm
using MusicMatch, I just click on the play button until it gets past the
glitch, and reads the file.

I started having this problem a month or so ago, after a Windows Update.
Since MM is so tightly integrated with IE... I suspect something changed
that affects MMJB.
bj

File associations don't affect the ability of a player to read a CD....
Does Explorer see the CD?
Do you have AutoPlay or AutoInsert Notification turned off, perhaps?
Does Musicmatch see the CD if you restart Musicmatch?
If you go to WMP's Tools:Optionsevices and switch WMP to use Analog
playback for that drive, does it still work? I believe Musicmatch and Sonic
likely use Analog playback, whereas WMP uses digital......

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(speaking for myself and doing this in my free time)
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Now Playing: "Stetsasonic - Talking All That Jazz" by "Daft Punk" in WMP10.
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"Troy Bauer" <TroyBauer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:919D9B70-D4A5-44D3-8777-F7405BCF0370@microsoft.com...
> When I try to play an audio cd, my cd rom drive will only read the files
> if
> using windows media player. When using musicmatch or sonic record now, the
> programs say the cd drive is empty. No files are being read, even though
> in
> the settings of both programs all the types of music files are checked,
> cda,
> mp3, etc. Any ideas? I am baffled, musicmatch used to work for me.
> --
> Troy Bauer

Explorer does see the cd. The songs even have musicmatch icons next to them,
but music match wont play them, it says drive is empty. Media player will
play them. The other things you told me to do,. did not help.
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Troy Bauer


"zachd [ms]" wrote:

>
> File associations don't affect the ability of a player to read a CD....
> Does Explorer see the CD?
> Do you have AutoPlay or AutoInsert Notification turned off, perhaps?
> Does Musicmatch see the CD if you restart Musicmatch?
> If you go to WMP's Tools:Optionsevices and switch WMP to use Analog
> playback for that drive, does it still work? I believe Musicmatch and Sonic
> likely use Analog playback, whereas WMP uses digital......
>
> --
> (speaking for myself and doing this in my free time)
> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> Now Playing: "Stetsasonic - Talking All That Jazz" by "Daft Punk" in WMP10.
> --
>
> "Troy Bauer" <TroyBauer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:919D9B70-D4A5-44D3-8777-F7405BCF0370@microsoft.com...
> > When I try to play an audio cd, my cd rom drive will only read the files
> > if
> > using windows media player. When using musicmatch or sonic record now, the
> > programs say the cd drive is empty. No files are being read, even though
> > in
> > the settings of both programs all the types of music files are checked,
> > cda,
> > mp3, etc. Any ideas? I am baffled, musicmatch used to work for me.
> > --
> > Troy Bauer
>
>
>