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[DonT]

(If this is the wrong forum for this post then please tell me where I should have posted my question).

I have just downloaded and installed MC 10 and, overall, I like it a lot.

However, when I put an audio CD (store-bought) in my cd drive I get the message:

Media Center has detected a new CD in drive G: but cannot get the correct volume information.  Please try ejecting and reinserting the CD.

I have tried several CDs, and I have tried CDEX on the same CDs and it recognizes them without complaint.
I am able to burn audio CDs on the same CD drive, but MC10 can't read the CDs that MC10 itself created. ?

I am using MC 10 version 10.0.173.

Thanks,

Don.

[Alex B]

Paste your System Info from MC Help menu here. It may help to help...

Can MC recognize any CDs on the drive? For example, data CDs that have audio files.

[DonT]

Alex:

Here is my system info:

Media Center 10.0.173 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows 2000  Workstation 5.0 Service Pack 4 (Build 2195)
Intel Pentium III 791 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 522 MB, Free - 344 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 G:   Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No 

Burning /  Drive G: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8520B    Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:32  MaxSpeed:32  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

But, I have got it working now and the above reflects a working system.

I noticed that the properties on my CD drive did not have the "Enable Digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device" checked.  I checked this and re-booted.  After which MC-10 could read my CDs ok.

Does this make sense?

Thanks,

Don.

[Alex B]

Perfect sense. The interesting thing is how CDEX could read the volume info. Perhaps it can override the OS setting.