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Title: Can't Play CD's [with screenshot]
Post by: Sauzee on December 04, 2003, 11:05:14 pm

MC has stopped displaying the contents of Audio Cd's and data/mp3 CD's.

It does recognise that there is a CD in the drive but doesn't list the tracks [though it does list the folders on a data CD].  See screenshot for an example

(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-11/485305/MCcantseeCD.jpg)

Really weird!  With audio CD's it again displays the volume name but not the tracks.  

Windows Explorer can see the CD's and foobar plays them.

Any ideas?  I've tried a couple of MC builds with the same problem. Currently on 9.1.316.  

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Title: Re:Can't Play CD's [with screenshot]
Post by: Marko on December 05, 2003, 01:51:26 am

A long shot, but you never know ;)

Go to "Tools > Options > Devices"....

The last item on that dialogue is "Data CD and portable devices" and the option is to display files in subfolders.

Is it ticked?

Title: Re:Can't Play CD's [with screenshot]
Post by: Sauzee on December 05, 2003, 04:42:56 am

Marko

Yes it is ticked. I can't work this one out at all.

I think it may be a Windows problem as Windows Media player cannot play audio CD's. It too see's the audio CD but then says file not found. However WMP plays data CD's fine [which MC doesn't].

Odd though, that foobar doesn't have any problems.

 ?

Title: Re:Can't Play CD's [with screenshot]
Post by: BullishDad on December 05, 2003, 04:59:17 pm

I ran into a similar problem a little while back.  You may want to run the Autofix utility from Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c680a7b6-e8fa-45c4-a171-1b389cfacdad&DisplayLang=en  (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c680a7b6-e8fa-45c4-a171-1b389cfacdad&DisplayLang=en)

Title: Re:Can't Play CD's [with screenshot]
Post by: Sauzee on December 06, 2003, 05:15:38 am

Thanks BullishDad

I tried the patch but unfortunately it didn't help in my case.

I did however discover the problem.  I had taken out one of my optical drives prior to this issue.  When I replaced it, MC saw the full CD on the other drive.

Odd. Suspect it has something to do with the fact that I have in the past manually changed drive letters - so when I took a drive out it confused MC and WMP [but not foobar or Windows Explorer].