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[KJHiggins]

Hi

Please can someone help?

I have to take off the digital playback to listen to CD's. Why?

I cannot listen to CD's I have ripped to the hard drive.

Can anyone help?

I have Version 9.1.308, running Win 2000 Pro, with Intel P3 500.

Many thanks

K

[Alex B]

Please can someone help?

Maybe.

I have to take off the digital playback to listen to CD's. Why?

I don't know, more information is needed. For example: Can you listen to them with other programs digitally? Did it work earlier? What was changed?

I cannot listen to CD's I have ripped to the hard drive.

I don't know, more information is needed. For example: What is the file format of the ripped files? How did you rip them? Can other software players play them?

I have Version 9.1.308, running Win 2000 Pro, with Intel P3 500.

It doesn't hurt to install MC 9.1.319.

[KingSparta]

some sound boards require that there is something hooked to the "Digital Out Port"

if your speakers are hooked to the "Analog Out" on the soundboard thats prob why it is not working.

[Alex B]

Actually, it would behave like that if the speakers or headphones are connected only to CD-ROM drive's front connector. Though I guess the answer is not that easy...    

some sound boards require that there is something hooked to the "Digital Out Port"

if your speakers are hooked to the "Analog Out" on the soundboard thats prob why it is not working.

KJ, what is your soundcard and speaker setup? Paste also your System Info from MC Help menu here. Have you checked the CD drive setup in Windows > Control Panel > System > Device Manager? You must have digital CD audio enabled there:



(This is from XP, but W2K should have something similar.)

[KJHiggins]

Here's the info you asked for. I hope it helps.

Media Center Registered 9.1.319 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows 2000  Workstation 5.0 Service Pack 4 (Build 2195)
Intel Pentium III 499 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 130 MB, Free - 10 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1584 (xpsp2.040720-1705) / Shell32.dll: 5.00.3900.6975 / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping /   Drive D:   Copy mode:Normal   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
  Drive E:   Copy mode:Normal   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
  Digital playback: No /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: No /  Play sound after ripping: No 

Burning /  Drive E: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8320B    Addr: 1:1:0  Speed:32  MaxSpeed:32  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

Many thanks for your help

K

[Alex B]

I am not sure if this is related, but at least you need more memory. I managed to get by with a 400 MHz PII PC until I started watching videos with MC, but I had 512 MB of RAM.
I guess you didn't write Santa about a new PC? 

Did you check the "Digital CD Playback" option? Have you tried both CD drives?

How about your soundcard and speaker setup details?

[KJHiggins]

By taking the digital playback off, (MC-Optios-Device), CD's play, but cannot get ripped files to play(mp3 or ogg)

Digital playback is now enabled in Control Panel.

Sound card and speakers seem ok, as CD's play.

I might have to try more memory, as I only have 128Mb. Did 256Mb's, but one stick errored!

Many thnaks

K

[KJHiggins]

I have updated my memory from 128Mb to 384Mb, but no good. Cd's play, but cd's ripped to hard drive do not play.

If you click on the ripped, it reads at the top, waiting......buffering, then crashes and shuts down.

Any ideas?

K