Well if WMP9 could assert itself as the default CD player AND disable the
others from ever playing them, even Rob Glazer himself would gaze in
admiration. But I don't think it's as sinister as that. I've got some kind
of computer problem, because I tried everything you suggested and it didn't
help, except to eliminate ways to solve the problem. I also went into file
types and "pro-actively" associated CDA with a different media player but
that had no effect either. I'm starting to think removal and reinstallation
of the other media players may be the only way out, or if I'm lucky
reinstalling them over themselves, neither of which I'm anxious to do (if
indeed reinstallation would actually solve it).

This probably deserves another thread but I also noticed that realplayer in
the "open with" dialog box can't open anything because, as the error message
shows, the path to the executable is wrong (shows the path to the old
installation). In file types however , every file type that opens with
realplayer.exe shows the correct path to it when you click edit. I don't see
any way to delete it from the dialog box (and then re-add it) - any way to
fix this?

By the way I have no hang-up about using WMP9 for CDs, I'm just trying to
get things to work right.


glee wrote:
Using the "open with" trick may not produce the desired results ;-)
Try using the easily accessible front end to change these
associations:
Open WMP Tools menu Options File Types tab, and uncheck the box
for "Music CD Playback", and click OK.
That by itself *should* revert the audio CD playback to whatever
player you formerly used. If it does not, open the player you want
to use for audio CD playback, and use their menus the same way, to
associate the player with audio CD.

In WMP6.4 and probably also MediaPlayer Classic, the same basic menus
should be available as in WMP9....just check the box to have one of
them grab that association.

RealPlayer has a similar menu, but it's exact location depends on
what version you have...and I don't support that player so I can't
give you the specific menus. All media players will have the options
somewhere in their menus.

"Roger Fink" wrote in message
...
Ever since I installed WMP9 I've only been able to play audio CD's
using
WMP9. So using "open with" and then selecting realplayer, media
player
classic, or even mediaplayer 6.4, produces an error message, saying
essentially that the format is not supported. I won't list all the
error
messages for now, but here's the one from 6.4:

"Cannot play back this file. The format is not supported. Error =
80040265."

The format is CDA and the CD's are retail prerecorded.