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I thought I'd listen to some tunes while I worked today, but my CD-ROM or my sound card isn't working correctly. The CD I'm trying to play HAS worked before. I put the CD in and the software shows that it is playing, but no sound comes out. I've tried Windows's CD-Player and WinAmp with neither working. The speaker and sound card work because I played system sounds and other multimedia on the computer. Anyone have an idea to what this is?
is the audio cable connected from the cd-rom to the sound card? Also, I had this happen once and dont know why, but I one time had to go in and choose the correct prefered device for winamp to get it to run. Only had that happen once. Usually was fine off install. Anyway, those are my ideas. Hope it helps.
[quote]Originally posted by Sandman72:
<strong>is the audio cable connected from the cd-rom to the sound card? Also, I had this happen once and dont know why, but I one time had to go in and choose the correct prefered device for winamp to get it to run. Only had that happen once. Usually was fine off install. Anyway, those are my ideas. Hope it helps.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah I checked the audio cable; it's fine. Where do you go in WinAmp to choose the prefered device?
its been a while but I dont recall if I had to set it for sure in windows or in winamp...any way it would be in wiamp preferences,plugins, output. select the plugins from the list in the right pane. click configure. from there you can choose from a drop down menu in each plug in.
[quote]Originally posted by Sandman72:
<strong>its been a while but I dont recall if I had to set it for sure in windows or in winamp...any way it would be in wiamp preferences,plugins, output. select the plugins from the list in the right pane. click configure. from there you can choose from a drop down menu in each plug in.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Ok, I went to plugings, output, and selected each plugin and went to configure to configure it. Two of them asked for a file, and two let me select select my sound card. I selected it, but still nothing happens. I didn't mess with any other configurations except the selection of the sound card.
Also try volume control and make sure the cd audio isnt muted.
[quote]Originally posted by jaeger:
<strong>Also try volume control and make sure the cd audio isnt muted.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I looked and it isn't
Do you have two cd drives? check in control panel/multimedia to see which one is your default drive for playing cds
I have had users with this problem and usually deleting the CDRom and letting Winblows find it again will correct it. USUALLY. :cool: :cool:
[quote]Originally posted by M*A*S*H*R:
<strong>I have had users with this problem and usually deleting the CDRom and letting Winblows find it again will correct it. USUALLY. :cool: :cool: </strong><hr></blockquote>
That would be deleting the CD in Device Manager.
:cool:
Hello Everyone, For some reason, on some systems you have to use the (modem volume) in the volume control panel! Open up and move the slider to full and also make sure it is not muted! Hope this helps, PSJ
Back to Basics...
CDROMs Ususally have HeadPhone Jack, Play, Eject, Volume in the front.
connect regullar Headphone to the jack and Listen to Audio Directly through the CD.
If there is no Audio, so the Problem is definetly on the CDROM Drive.
If there is Audio So the Problem is Spreaded from Cable to Sound Card, Driver, Mixer Settings, Application.
I would recommend Checking this Simple thing before going any further.
P.s. What Sound Card do you have.
[quote]Originally posted by Gabriel:
<strong>Back to Basics...
CDROMs Ususally have HeadPhone Jack, Play, Eject, Volume in the front.
connect regullar Headphone to the jack and Listen to Audio Directly through the CD.
If there is no Audio, so the Problem is definetly on the CDROM Drive.
If there is Audio So the Problem is Spreaded from Cable to Sound Card, Driver, Mixer Settings, Application.
I would recommend Checking this Simple thing before going any further.
P.s. What Sound Card do you have.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I don't have any headphones available to me right now. I did download a mp3 to test it on Winamp and it worked. I leaning towards something in the CD-ROM being messed up.
Well, some older CD drives have problems with newer methods of burning through CDR's. You'll find the great majority of these probs with car cd players, but also with PC drives as well.
One thing I would suggest is to see if you can get a firmware upgrade for the CD drive that you have.
Here's some stuff that is from CDRFAQ.ORG that explains it in way more detail than I care to explain. =)
For more info, <a href="http://www.cdrfaq.org" target="_blank">http://www.cdrfaq.org</a>
Subject: [4-23] Having trouble playing an audio CD in a home or car player
(2001/07/09)
There are a few possibilities. First and foremost is media compatibility. Not all players get along with all brands of CD-R media. You need to find a combination of recorder, media, and player that get along. Read section (7-2) to learn more. A CD-R media identifier (like the one listed in section (6-2-9)) can help you be sure that you're trying discs from different manufacturers, but they aren't 100% reliable (section (2-33)).
If you're trying to use CD-RW media, your odds of success are worse than with CD-R. CD-RW discs simply won't play on most CD players.
Another common problem is failing to close the disc at the end of writing. You can't play an audio CD on a common CD player until the session has been closed. You may be able to play it back with the CD recorder though. Also, don't forget that you have to write all of the audio data into the first session of a multisession CD. CD players don't know how to find the later sessions, so tracks written there won't get played.
Sometimes the CD player will spin the disc up but won't start playing it. Sometimes it will have no problem playing the tracks, but will have a great deal of difficulty seeking between tracks or moving fast-forward. Using a different brand of media or a different CD player may produce better results.
If you're getting skips and jumps, make sure that you don't have anti-skip protection enabled. This is usually only available on portable or car players, and you may not be able to disable it on car players. Car CD players are notoriously picky about media. See also section (4-40).
One user with a Jensen car CD stereo was unable to use blanks immediately after recording them. After a couple of days, the discs suddenly started working. This "delayed finalizing" behavior appears consistently repeatable, not a one-time event. Recording at 1x instead of 4x resulted in discs that were immediately usable.
Some media works better at 1x, 2x, or 4x than it does at other speeds. You may find that slowing down or speeding up the recorder helps.
If the disc plays okay at first and starts sounding bad later, or it sounds okay on the first few tracks but gets noisy toward the end of the disc, see section (4-47).
Finally, remember that you have to write the disc in CD-DA format! If you just write a bunch of .WAV files to a disc in CD-ROM format, it's not going to work in your home stereo.
Subject: [4-24] Having trouble using a CD-ROM on a different machine
(2000/01/03)
As with audio CDs, discussed in the previous section, there are several possibilities. The media compatibility issues mentioned above apply to CD-ROM as well.
If you're using CD-RW media rather than CD-R media, you have to be sure that the CD-ROM drive in question is MultiRead compliant. Some older drives are able to read CD-RW media, but most are not.
If the disc was written using a packet writing application like DirectCD (where you format a disc and then copy files directly to it, instead of creating a disc layout and recording a whole bunch of stuff at once), some CD-ROM drives will stumble on packet boundaries. Refer to section (4-21) for information and a possible workaround.
If a packet-written disc was closed in ISO-9660 Level 3 format, it won't be usable on systems that don't support ISO-9660 level 3 (e.g. DOS). If the disc was *not* closed as ISO-9660, and is still in UDF, you will need a UDF driver; see sections (6-3) and (6-4) for an overview and pointers to free drivers.
I've tried both a CD-R and a store bought CD, and neither worked. I know store bought CDs are just CD-Rs, but I figured they would be burned in the correct format.
You might try plugging in your speakers into your headphone jack on the cdplayer (since you dont have headphones) ive done this numerous times, good luck
i'd say that either the cable from CD to sound card or motherboard is bad or the CD connector on sound card or motherboard is bad. If you have an auxiliary connection on sound card or motherboard try connecting cable from CD to that and see wht you get.
[quote]Originally posted by one_w/_keyboard:
<strong>You might try plugging in your speakers into your headphone jack on the cdplayer (since you dont have headphones) ive done this numerous times, good luck</strong><hr></blockquote>
It's an internal speaker....
I will send you $10.00, go to radio shack and get some headphones!
I downloaded the latest media player recently.... just happened to pop in a music CD, and guess what????
It actually played!!!!!
WinAmp still won't play a CD....
CD player that installs with Windows won't play a CD....
But MEDIA PLAYER WILL!!!!
Is this more of that anti-competative stuff I keep hearing about??? j/k!!!
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if your new media player works, then your winamp and windows cd player files were corrupted. try reloading windows and then reinstall winamp.
this should do the trick.
The reason that Windows media player works for you is that it is playing your audio CD in data mode - the data is streaming off the CD on the IDE cable instead of in analogue format via the traditional audio cable.
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SORRY I DIDN'T READ YOU POST UNTIL TODAY.... REASON THAT INSTALLING MSMEDIA PLAYER WORKED FOR YOU IS BECAUSE YOUR ISSUE WAS A CORRUPT AUDIO CODEC; CODEC=COMPRESSION/DECOMPRESSION ... YOU CAN INSTALL AND UNINSTALL AUDION CODECS WITHIN THE MULTIMEDIA ICON IN CONTRL PANEL UNDER DEVICES, UNDER MEDIA CONTRL DEVICES... YOU CAN THEN REINSTALL THEM USING ADD NEW HARDWARE UNDER MICROSOFT AUDIO CODECS.... BEING ABLE TO PLAY WAV BUT NOT CDA OR DIGITAL MUSIC MEANT THAT YOUR CD AUDIO DEVICE CODEC WAS PROBABLY HOSED AND NEEDED REMOVAL AND REINSTALLING... THIS CASE IS VERY RARE.... DONE 2LEVEL WINDOWZ SUPPORT AND FOUND THIS ISSUE TO BE THE CASE 1 OUT OF 200 TIMES.... MY ADVICE TO YOU WOULD BE TO IMAGE YOUR CURRENT OS AND CONTINUE TO IMAGE IT AS SOFTWARE UPGRADES/UPDATES ARE PERFORMED CAUSE WINDOWZ WILL HOSE UP, EVENTUALLY....GOOD LUCK WITH THE REST...
It's an internal speaker....
what, have u got your sound card connected to ???? the internal speaker.
do you get any "other noises" out of your "speaker" apart from the od crackle??
if you go into control panel /sounds and play one does it come thu your internal speaker......
Yeah, I was a bit worried about this internal speaker thing too https://forums.windrivers.com/
Anyway, as explained by some wise dude earlier, the reason why you can hear the CD Audio with WMP7 is because it uses Digital Audio Extraction (raw read functionality), so it'll work even if there isn't an audio cable connected from the CD-ROM drive to the soundcard.
To make Winamp work the same, you need to replace the default analog CD Input plugin (in_cdda.dll) with the digital CDReader plugin.
Be sure to read the accompanying text file for details on how to do this. Basically, you close Winamp, install CDReader, then goto the Winamp\Plugins dir and rename the default plugin to something like in_cdda.dll.off
If the problem persists, you might want to consider changing the Output Plugin to DirectSound (Winamp->Prefs->Output) and if this still doesn't help, try changing the Output Device in the config to use your soundcard's driver instead of Primary Sound Driver.
btw, what is your soundcard anyway?
Has this even been established yet?
Luckily for you, you just got a reply from a Winamp Forums Moderator. Hey, there's just no escaping Winamp for me. https://forums.windrivers.com/
Why are you worried about my speaker? I know that internal speakers are pretty crappy, but the one I have seems to work fine for me. The place I work is a bit cheap when it comes to buying unnecessary hardware for employees. One guy's been practically begging for just a sound card for his computer.Quote:
<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by DJ-Egg:
Yeah, I was a bit worried about this internal speaker thing too https://forums.windrivers.com/
Anyway, as explained by some wise dude earlier, the reason why you can hear the CD Audio with WMP7 is because it uses Digital Audio Extraction (raw read functionality), so it'll work even if there isn't an audio cable connected from the CD-ROM drive to the soundcard.
To make Winamp work the same, you need to replace the default analog CD Input plugin (in_cdda.dll) with the digital CDReader plugin.
Be sure to read the accompanying text file for details on how to do this. Basically, you close Winamp, install CDReader, then goto the Winamp\Plugins dir and rename the default plugin to something like in_cdda.dll.off
If the problem persists, you might want to consider changing the Output Plugin to DirectSound (Winamp->Prefs->Output) and if this still doesn't help, try changing the Output Device in the config to use your soundcard's driver instead of Primary Sound Driver.
btw, what is your soundcard anyway?
Has this even been established yet?
Luckily for you, you just got a reply from a Winamp Forums Moderator. Hey, there's just no escaping Winamp for me. https://forums.windrivers.com/</font>
I downloaded CDReader and it worked great. Thanks. I really didn't expect more people to reply after my last post. I was mainly just posting that as a joke. Thanks to everyone for helping though.
Not that it would help now, but my sound card is an ESS Solo-1 PCI AudioDrive.
No Question about it, after reading all the posts. Its your Codecs.
Reinstall them.
it'll work.
Not to sound mean and ungrateful or anything, but I stated in my last post that the CDReader Plugin for Winamp worked.Quote:
<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by tempdir:
No Question about it, after reading all the posts. Its your Codecs.
Reinstall them.
it'll work.
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Now I'm not sure if I'm exhibiting signs of to much coffee or to little coffee.
I should of read a little closer.
That's ok....Quote:
<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by tempdir:
Now I'm not sure if I'm exhibiting signs of to much coffee or to little coffee.
I should of read a little closer.
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D**n! You guys are awesome! I've been into computers for 4 years and have never run into this issue. I was sure the audio cable was bad! This just shows me you can never learn enough about computers. Thanks to you all!
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Hey? Why is my computer promting me if I would like to accept a cookie? Is it Oatmeal or Chocolate Chip?
By installing CDReader, you haven't fixed the original problem, merely found a workaround solution...albeit a good one, credit where credits due. It would have been nice to have found the original cause of the trouble. :/
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