Using old Windows CD player accessory?

[Shin Hibiki]

I recently bought a new Dell machine with XP after using Win98
for several years. I copied over the executable and configuration
files for the old CD player accessory (CDPLAYER.EXE and so on). I'd
prefer to be able to use the old player, as I have taken the time to
enter full track info for a few hundred CDs, including a lot of stuff
that I highly doubt will be in the WMP database.
Anyway, when I insert a CD, the player briefly recognizes it,
but quickly switches to "Data or no disc loaded," and all the controls
are grayed out. Anything I can do to make it work, or am I out of
luck? Alternatively, if I could at least import the old CDPLAYER.INI
data to WMP somehow, I'd probably be happy with that.

- Steve S.

 

[zachd [ms]]

Great name (I run the local CvS2/MvC2 tournaments in Seattle).

CDPlayer.ini is worthless and cannot be imported - it only contains vague
fragments of information. Since I know the guy that wrote how it stores
data, he apologizes to you for that, and promises that he did it right for
WMP.

I'd just bite the bullet and start using WMP for CDs... I don't know about
others, but I've added information for hundreds of odds and ends CDs that I
have that nobody else in their right mind would have (Geinoh Yamashirogumi
comes to mind), so either the info will be found or you can add it.

-Z
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(speaking for myself and doing this in my free time)
See http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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