Windows Media Player

[Doin]

Sorry for another tech post but...

My Windows Media Player refuses to play CDRs. I was having a problem with it crashing and freezing the computer. I reverted back to Windows Media Player 6 and at least now I can play original CDs.

I have also installed Winamp but this has caused major problems. It requires me to restart the PC every time I want to play a CD.

Does anyone know how to get Media Player to recognise CDRs?
I did have version 11 but that was where the problems started.

I can copy DVDs and CDs.

[slayerdiabolus]

Could it be a DVD/CD Drive problem rather than software. Maybe thats whats causing your PC to freeze/crash

[Doin]

No. The drives work fine and sometimes they play audio CDs but mostly it freezes.

[M4ST3R M1K3]

Try to switch digital/analog reading of audio CDs (device manager)

[Doin]

The problem has still not rectified itself.

Sometimes I change from digital to analog and it plays one CD and then I can't play another one. I have no idea why this happens.
However I can play DVDs and copy CDs without a problem.
It never did this before.

I did however have my hard drive reformatted and that might have stuffed up the settings.

[M4ST3R M1K3]

You could try to change the I/O mode (PIO, dma) of the IDE channel where your drive is connected. Sometimes windows doesn't correctly detect the specs of a drive. These settings are in the device manager and in the BIOS

[sjmike]

have you tried playing back your cds in a different audio player such as WinAmp or Real Player?

[Doin]

have you tried playing back your cds in a different audio player such as WinAmp or Real Player?

Yeah. Didn't make a difference.

I think it might be working now though....
NOt sure what I did.

[dmegametal#1]

what i do is just rip/copy the cd to the harddrive and play it through WMP

[Doin]

Yeah, I can do that but it's a pain in the arse to do that every time I want to listen to something or just see if a CD works.