playing audio CDs i Win XP Media Player

**robstreats** · January 2nd, 2003, 07:56 AM

I am not sure if this is a driver problem or not. I have a basic CD & a CD/RW drive; both work fine except I cannot play audio CDs in WIn XP Media Player - Med Pl. does not seem to be able to see either drive which has the CD or CD/RW.
Any help would be welcome.
Thanks in advance.

**NooNoo** · January 2nd, 2003, 08:33 AM

When you put a music cd in, do you get an autoplay window up? If you do, what happens when you click play with media player?

If you open media player and say File Open then can you see the cdrom?

**robstreats** · January 2nd, 2003, 10:35 AM

Yes I get Win XP Media Player come up, but both my CD drives (E & F )in the 'play' menu are greyed out.
Thanks for your interest.

**NooNoo** · January 2nd, 2003, 01:07 PM

Does either of your cd drives have an audio cable hooked to the sound card?

In control panel, sounds and audio devices, hardware, click on one of your cd drives, click properties, properties tab, check the box, enable digital CD Audio for this CD-Rom device.

**Archer** · January 2nd, 2003, 02:01 PM

Just another thought

Do any of the Audio CDs your trying contain any form of antipiracy encryption device i.e. they will play in standard CD players but not normally play in devices attached to PCs.

**robstreats** · January 2nd, 2003, 02:13 PM

Yes There is an audio cable from each CD drive to my SB sound card & digital audio CD is enables.
The music CD does not have any encryption and has played before

**NooNoo** · January 2nd, 2003, 02:32 PM

Is there any ! in device manager?

**robstreats** · January 2nd, 2003, 03:59 PM

No - everything is reported to be working correctly!

**Jediab** · January 2nd, 2003, 06:19 PM

How many CDs have you tried? Does it happen with all of them? Did you create any of the audio CDs that you are trying to use?

**robstreats** · January 3rd, 2003, 03:02 PM

I have tried various CDs, none of my own making; all to no avail.

**robstreats** · January 4th, 2003, 11:34 AM

I now have the following error message:-
'Invalid MCI device ID- use the ID returned when opening the MCI device'

**NooNoo** · January 4th, 2003, 11:54 AM

What media player version?

At the bottom of this mskb article is a couple of things to check in control panel.

**robstreats** · January 4th, 2003, 12:23 PM

Media Player 8 - both my CD drives & the audio codecs are listed under the hardware tab. of Soiunds etc.

**Jediab** · January 6th, 2003, 06:44 PM

The MCI device error sounds like it might be the problem. Here is what Microsoft says about MCI,

MCI is high-level control software that provides a device-independent interface to multimedia devices and media files. MCI includes a command-message interface and a command-string interface. These interfaces are supported by both IBM and Microsoft.

I am not an XP wizard unfortunatly, but is it possible to uninstall and reinstall XP's Media Player? If it is, try that next.

**robstreats** · January 7th, 2003, 04:02 AM

Thanks, I think you may be correct, but I don't think you can uninstall & re-install Media Player - I have tried installing Media Player 9 but although it seemed to work, I got the message that installation was not completed. I still could not play music CDs and have removed Media Player 9.

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