XP doesn't play music CDs

[Dave1024]

XP doesn't play regular commercial music CDs. or the ones I record.
Otherwise XP does play all sounds normally, MP3s and WAVs. And it
will read data CDs fine. It also records music CDs fine (in Nero),

I have tried everything.

Both CDROMs are set to play music digitally in Device Manager. The
volume and mutes are set properly in the Mixer.

I have tried deleting and reinstalling the sound driver. Same for the
CD drives and the controller. I have tried reinstalling XP over
itself (repair).

To check the hardware, I have installed another version of XP on a
different partition, and music CDs play fine there.

Both the CDR and DVDROM will autoplay and bring up Media Player 9 to
play the music CDs when I insert one. "My Computer" changes what it
lists for the CDROMs to "Audio CD" when a music CD is inserted, so XP
knows a CD is there, and it knows it is an audio CD. Media Player 9
says:

"
The selected file has a file scheme that is not recognized by Windows
Media Player, but the Player may be able to play it. Because the
extension is unknown by the Player, you should be sure that the file
comes from a trustworthy source.

Do you want the Player to try to play the file?"

It asks that for each song on the CD, 14 times if there are 14 songs.

After this, if I click the play button, it says

"Windows Media Player cannot find the specified file. Be sure
the path is typed correctly. If it is, the file does not exist at the
specified location, or the computer where the file is stored is
offline."

For help, it lists the error:
"0xC00D1197: Cannot play the file."

Following the instructions there does nothing.

Winamp3 will not play music CDs either. But it does not report any
errors. It pretends to play the cda files on the CD, but the light on
the CDROM is off, meaning the CDROM is doing nothing.The position
slider moves as if its playing the file. It correctly identifies the
time of each track.

There is one difference in the display when Winamp3 plays the files in
a version of XP that works.

CD TRACK 05 (CDDA:44KHZ 16BIT)

versus

CD TRACK (MCI)

for non-working.

I never had weirdness to this extent in Windows 98. It appears that a
piece of XP that actually plays the cda's is missing, but XP refuses
to find, indentify, or fix it. It does not seem like it should be that
difficult.

Thanks for reading and thanks for any assitance.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
XP doesn't play regular commercial music CDs. or the ones I record.
Otherwise XP does play all sounds normally, MP3s and WAVs. And it
will read data CDs fine. It also records music CDs fine (in Nero),

I have tried everything.

Both CDROMs are set to play music digitally in Device Manager. The
volume and mutes are set properly in the Mixer.

I have tried deleting and reinstalling the sound driver. Same for the
CD drives and the controller. I have tried reinstalling XP over
itself (repair).

To check the hardware, I have installed another version of XP on a
different partition, and music CDs play fine there.

Both the CDR and DVDROM will autoplay and bring up Media Player 9 to
play the music CDs when I insert one. "My Computer" changes what it
lists for the CDROMs to "Audio CD" when a music CD is inserted, so XP
knows a CD is there, and it knows it is an audio CD. Media Player 9
says:

"
The selected file has a file scheme that is not recognized by Windows
Media Player, but the Player may be able to play it. Because the
extension is unknown by the Player, you should be sure that the file
comes from a trustworthy source.

Do you want the Player to try to play the file?"

It asks that for each song on the CD, 14 times if there are 14 songs.

After this, if I click the play button, it says

"Windows Media Player cannot find the specified file. Be sure
the path is typed correctly. If it is, the file does not exist at the
specified location, or the computer where the file is stored is
offline."

For help, it lists the error:
"0xC00D1197: Cannot play the file."

Following the instructions there does nothing.

Winamp3 will not play music CDs either. But it does not report any
errors. It pretends to play the cda files on the CD, but the light on
the CDROM is off, meaning the CDROM is doing nothing.The position
slider moves as if its playing the file. It correctly identifies the
time of each track.

There is one difference in the display when Winamp3 plays the files in
a version of XP that works.

CD TRACK 05 (CDDA:44KHZ 16BIT)

versus

CD TRACK (MCI)

for non-working.

I never had weirdness to this extent in Windows 98. It appears that a
piece of XP that actually plays the cda's is missing, but XP refuses
to find, indentify, or fix it. It does not seem like it should be that
difficult.

Thanks for reading and thanks for any assitance.

.

 

[Ben]

I have the same problem. I tried using iTunes as play and
the same thing happens. The program opens and the CD does
not appear. If anyone has found a solution to these
please let me know.

 

[Dave1024]

I have the same problem. I tried using iTunes as play and
the same thing happens. The program opens and the CD does
not appear. If anyone has found a solution to these
please let me know.

Yes iTunes doesn't work either. So don't some others.

If you just need to hear music tracks, the one in CDex plays music
CDs, although it glitches between tracks that fade across from one to
the other. CDex is primarily a ripper. I guess CDex uses a different
CD access method to play CDs than MP9, Winamp3 and iTunes. I assume it
rips the tracks, and then plays them.

I still have no true solution. I've done a lot of searching through
the registry. I have found a number of differences in the registry
between an XP version that works and one that doen't. But changing to
match doesn't help anything.

I have found out that deleting the file mcicda.dll (in two folders)
from the working XP produces the identical Media Player symptoms.
(Interestingly, when XP is rebooted the file magically reappears from
nowhere.) Copying (replacing) that file to the non-working XP doesn't
help. ??? So that file in itself is not the problem. That is as much
of a lead as I have.

 

[Guest]

hi there.

this has happened to me too.

Like you say, it seems to all rely on this MCI CDAudio program/interface.

The support information from Microsoft KB usually skirt the issue OR say "remove it from your ocmputer and let it reinstall" which you and i, and many others it seems, can attest doesn't work.

From what you've seem to have done to try and correct it, am i right in assuming the only way to rememdy it would be to format your computer?! Also, when you say "repair" is this using the windows CD to reinstall parts of windowS? does this affect current programs (like in earlier versions of Windows which meant dlls relating to say RealPlayer were deleted and you had to reinstall everything 3rd party?).

 

[Guest]

It worked!!!!

Granted, it intially loked like WMp wouldn't play it, but after ejecting it, and setting it to digital playback, it worked!!!

I'm off to open a bottle of champagne periously close to my PC!