CD/DVD want play sound

**ghostrider1975** · February 21st, 2005, 12:16 PM

Hi I have a problem that Ive been trying to solve for awhile now. My Cd/dvd drive will play anything you want it to play it just dont produce sound for music. I can down load the music and then play but I cant play straight from the drive I have sound coming through the computerbut not from cd Ive tried switching from digital to analog under cd/dvd properties but it didnt work.Ive also check sound properties to see if anything was muted or f I could find any thing else but so far no luck. I have a Microsoft windows xp Home Edition version 2002. Pentium R 4 CPU 2.80 GHz. please help Thanks.

**Cleetus** · February 21st, 2005, 12:36 PM

Have you checked to make sure your audio cable is hooked up to the cd player and sound card?

**confus-ed** · February 21st, 2005, 04:32 PM

Originally Posted by Cleetus

Have you checked to make sure your audio cable is hooked up to the cd player and sound card?

You want one of these

& it wants connecting as said, from the cd unit to the soundcard or if that's onboard to the motherboard itself - it should have come with your cd but they don't always get fitted, shouldn't be dear if you have to buy one.

**ghostrider1975** · February 21st, 2005, 05:06 PM

It all use to work just fine up untill about a month ago under the devise properties its telling me that multi media audio controller hasnt got the drives it needs could that be the problem?

Originally Posted by Cleetus

Have you checked to make sure your <a style='text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;' href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=22&k=audio%20cable" onmouseover="window.status='<a style='text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;' href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=22&k=audio%20cable" onmouseover="window.status='audio cable'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">audio cable</a>'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">audio cable</a> is hooked up to the <a style='text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;' href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=22&k=cd%20player" onmouseover="window.status='<a style='text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;' href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=22&k=cd%20player" onmouseover="window.status='cd player'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">cd player</a>'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">cd player</a> and <a style='text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;' href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=22&k=sound%20card" onmouseover="window.status='<a style='text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;' href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=22&k=sound%20card" onmouseover="window.status='sound card'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">sound card</a>'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">sound card</a>?

**confus-ed** · February 22nd, 2005, 04:53 AM

Originally Posted by ghostrider1975

.. My Cd/dvd drive will play anything you want it to play it just dont produce sound for music. I can down load the music and then play but I cant play straight from the drive I have sound coming through the computerbut not from cd .

So all this worked once upon a time & now 'suddenly' doesn't ? & just to be sure, you can play say '.wav' or '.cda' files from your hardisk - but not from the cd ?

.. telling me that multi media audio controller hasnt got the drives it needs could that be the problem? ..

Could well be, this is symptomatic of a few things ..

So what does this page

say exactly ? ('cos it won't be saying exactly what you said

- or I'd be surprised if it did)

& have you got things like burning software or virtual drive software also ? & does the unit produce sound from the headphone socket on the front of the cd/dvd ?

**NooNoo** · February 22nd, 2005, 06:42 AM

sounds like mebbe the cd playing codec went bye bye...

In device manager, under sound, video and game controllers you should have a device called Media Control Device - in the properties for that should be MCI CD Audio... is it?

**ghostrider1975** · February 22nd, 2005, 07:41 AM

Believe it or not but it doesnt have a phone jack on the cd player itself but like I said I can play any type of music once it is downloaded on the computer it just doesnt put out any sound when its coming straight from the cd player to give you more info this it what it says about the driver.:

Multimedia audio controller This device is not configured correctly. (Code 1)

To reinstall the drivers for this device, click Reinstall Driver.
Ijust cant find where to install the driver from and Im not for sure if this is the problem I think it is but not certain.

Originally Posted by confus-ed

So all this worked once upon a time & now 'suddenly' doesn't ? & just to be sure, you can play say '.wav' or '.cda' files from your hardisk - but not from the cd ?

Could well be, this is symptomatic of a few things ..

So what does this page

say exactly ? ('cos it won't be saying exactly what you said

- or I'd be surprised if it did)

& have you got things like burning software or virtual drive software also ? & does the unit produce sound from the headphone socket on the front of the <a style='text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;' href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=22&k=cd%20dvd" onmouseover="window.status='cd/dvd'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">cd/dvd</a> ?

**ghostrider1975** · February 22nd, 2005, 07:48 AM

I checked to see if it had that under properties and it does It also said that it is working properly. The one thats causing me problems is under other devices and under it it says Multimedia audio controller. It has the yellow flag.

Originally Posted by NooNoo

sounds like mebbe the cd playing codec went bye bye...

In device manager, under sound, video and <a style='text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;' href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=22&k=game%20controllers" onmouseover="window.status='game controllers'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">game controllers</a> you should have a device called Media Control Device - in the properties for that should be MCI CD Audio... is it?

**confus-ed** · February 22nd, 2005, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by ghostrider1975

..Multimedia audio controller This device is not configured correctly. (Code 1)

To reinstall the drivers for this device, click Reinstall Driver.
Ijust cant find where to install the driver from and Im not for sure if this is the problem I think it is but not certain.

& you wn the prize for spotting your own issue !

- it was this playing some sounds but not all that fooled us - 'code 1' jut means the driver install is 'wrong' & needs to be retried, both I & Noo got sidetracked by a similarly named thing which is the usual culprit ..

So I don't know what your soundcard is either !

You can try deleting it from device manager & seeing if windows can refind what it is correctly this time - but, failing that, if you tell us some stuff we can work it out & find you an appropriate driver - so tell us please the manufacturer & model of your pc - if its a home build you ought to know whats in it soundcard wise, but if not, there are utilities or visual inspection to discover it.