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Audio CD's
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. |
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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. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "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. |
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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. |
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Based on your sidebar on the RealPlayer issue, I would do an uninstall of RealPlayer
first, then check and set the associations via the WMP options menu. What other media players are installed? You may want to take this to a mediaplayer group: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...wsmedia.player news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ws.mediaplayer Also have a look through he http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Roger Fink" wrote in message ... 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. |
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The installed media players are WMP9, RP Enterprise, WMP6.4 and MediaPlayer
Classic. I uninstalled RealPlayer, but the RealPlayer selection with the wrong location still remained in the 'open with' dialog box. I've managed to fix it, if that's what you'd call it, by reinstalling it (Real Player Enterprise) in the former location where the old RP8 used to be. Fortunately the executables for both versions have the same name. glee wrote: Based on your sidebar on the RealPlayer issue, I would do an uninstall of RealPlayer first, then check and set the associations via the WMP options menu. What other media players are installed? You may want to take this to a mediaplayer group: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...wsmedia.player news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ws.mediaplayer Also have a look through he http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html "Roger Fink" wrote in message ... 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. |
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Well, that takes care of your "side issue", but your original problem still
exists.....yes? -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Roger Fink" wrote in message ... The installed media players are WMP9, RP Enterprise, WMP6.4 and MediaPlayer Classic. I uninstalled RealPlayer, but the RealPlayer selection with the wrong location still remained in the 'open with' dialog box. I've managed to fix it, if that's what you'd call it, by reinstalling it (Real Player Enterprise) in the former location where the old RP8 used to be. Fortunately the executables for both versions have the same name. glee wrote: Based on your sidebar on the RealPlayer issue, I would do an uninstall of RealPlayer first, then check and set the associations via the WMP options menu. What other media players are installed? You may want to take this to a mediaplayer group: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...wsmedia.player news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ws.mediaplayer Also have a look through he http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html "Roger Fink" wrote in message ... 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. |
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Yes it does. Like I said, WMP9 is fine for this so it doesn't present a
serious functional problem, but it's always nice to have Windows working right when possible, at least for short stretches. One new wrinkle here is that I noticed after I posted that RPE didn't OFFER the option of playing CDs, and I still have trouble believing that even as I write this. But I checked it again during reinstall and I still wasn't able to find any option for that, either during the install routine or in the format preferences in the menu. (note: if anyone secretly longs to have a benign version of RP on their machine for the occasional time when they need it but can't admit it publically, may I suggest that Enterprise is a good way to go. RealNetworks says it only works for W2K and up, but that is complete bs. It's a stripped down 8mb download devoid of ads, corny file organization schemes, and other hoopla. It does permanently insert the nefarious tkbellexe in your boot sequence but you can permanently beat it with Spybot Teatime and some other freeware I've seen) glee wrote: Well, that takes care of your "side issue", but your original problem still exists.....yes? "Roger Fink" wrote in message ... The installed media players are WMP9, RP Enterprise, WMP6.4 and MediaPlayer Classic. I uninstalled RealPlayer, but the RealPlayer selection with the wrong location still remained in the 'open with' dialog box. I've managed to fix it, if that's what you'd call it, by reinstalling it (Real Player Enterprise) in the former location where the old RP8 used to be. Fortunately the executables for both versions have the same name. glee wrote: Based on your sidebar on the RealPlayer issue, I would do an uninstall of RealPlayer first, then check and set the associations via the WMP options menu. What other media players are installed? You may want to take this to a mediaplayer group: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...wsmedia.player news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ws.mediaplayer Also have a look through he http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html "Roger Fink" wrote in message ... 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. |
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