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Anything special about playing cda files on an old (8x) drive in XP ? Via
IDE cable - not little 4 pin cable.
Brand new PC with XP. Added an old CD (Teac58-E) to do disk-disk copy if
needed etc. The Teac works fine EXCEPT for .cda files .I insert a store
bought CD into the drive and WMP pops up and after 10 seconds it shows the
label (it's the right label) and shows that it's playing. Well the CD light
is blinking but no audio. After 10-15 seconds there may be .5 second of
audio then another 10-15 seconds and .5 second of audio ( the audio counter
shows 00:01 rather than the actual 20-30 seconds). The cd/system is busy
doing something - other windows hang etc while this is going on. then maybe
after a minute, it'll play fine for a little while, then back to no /bad
audio. MP3's are fine, data is fine.This is the same drive I used on my
Win2000 box for years, and it was fine. Several CD's - same. After 20
attempts 1 will play fine. Hit stop - close WMP and reopen - the problem is
back. Only variable is WMP closed/reopened. I've check/unchecked the "enable
digital" and rebooted - same thing.I thought maybe it had something to do
with RealPlayer/WMP conflict. I uninstalled Realplayer - same thing. I went
to Teac.com - it  (and Microsoft) shows that it's XP compliant etc.

I haven't yet r/r with another drive from my Win2000 box, but I really don't
think it's hw. Using the onboard audio (Compaq 5420 Presario). Latest
updates . Anyone been here ? Something I'm overlooking ? Went into WMP and
chose to have it as default everything .