Cd sound

I can get no program except media player 2 recognise
audio cd discs. I want to use real one player also clean
sweep stopped playing back files at the same time. I
first noticed the problem in easy cd creator 4.05 I know
there can be problems with this program in xp but it did
work for 3 months. I have now totaly removed this program
following advice from roxio including registry entrys and
stray files.made no differance.any ideas ?

Just last night I noticed my PC doesn't play audio CDs.

It's been about a week since I last used a music Cd on
it, but nothings been installed/changed since then.

Now programs like WMP and Real don't even show
tracklistings (especially on enhanced CDs and MWp shows
the tracks of a normal Audio Cd but has exclamation marks
beside each one and tells me to check newtork streaming
protocols!?!?) or detect an audio cd is in the drive....

However, another, small program, I have is dbPower Amp,
and it can detect and play the tracks (though it's quite
cumbersome to use so I'm not too keen on using this
forever more).

It's frustrating that no support article really addresses
this, and the only thing that I think it might be is some
sort of service (in XP). There's a cdaudio service
that's disabled, which MIGHT be something to do with this.

Aside from not playing audio CDs, the computer is fine.

----- Graham Dearsley wrote: ----

I can get no program except media player 2 recognise
audio cd discs. I want to use real one player also clean
sweep stopped playing back files at the same time. I
first noticed the problem in easy cd creator 4.05 I know
there can be problems with this program in xp but it did
work for 3 months. I have now totaly removed this program
following advice from roxio including registry entrys and
stray files.made no differance.any ideas

The most obvious thing to check is your file associations, make sure audio files are associated with the program you want to use, see answer to musicmatch