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Re: Old CD in XP - .cda files - PROPER settings

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From: Spam Buster
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:31
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"Bobb" <rjschmoe@nospam_netscape.net> wrote in message
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| Cleared that "enable digital" box on the drive properties. THEN, in
| WMP-tools - options - devices - (picked the old CD) - properties, ANALOG
| playback selected, now it works.
| I thought that I had done that about 20 times before posting, but perhaps
a
| combo of checking those boxes and then rebooting and cabling fixed it, but
I
| couldn't get it before.
| Thanks for the help.
|
| Side note: I thought that since XP recognized my old CD as a Teac CD58-E ,
| it would have selected the proper setting when installing the drive. I
guess
| I'm giving them too much credit again. It did crash the app (WMP or
| RealPlayer) 5-6 times while I was trying to get it going, and once when I
| ejected the CD while it was attempting to play, it crashed XP.
|

I'm glad you got it to work. I'm sorry, I had forgotten about the setting in
Media Player.
I remember that WinMe was intelligent in recognizing which CD-ROM drive was
capable of playing digitally. Not a clue as to why WinXP lost that
capability.

Buster
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