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I cant play audio CD's!
I am using Win 98 B on a Compaq Armada 1700 laptop. I dont regularly
use my computer to play audio CD's, and if I do use my computer for audio, its usually to export a CD track to a Mp3 file and play that way. Back in July I installed the latest version of Quicktime for Windows 98 at that time. Quicktime took over all my audio files that normally played with Windows Media Player 7 (sorry last version that is compatible with the Windows CE HPC2000 OS, so I cant upgrade). Well just today I inserted many audio discs in my computer and discovered that they would not play. The CD basicially did nothing, and when I opened up Windows Media Player 7, the program crashed. Or when I opened up the CD Player app in the accessories/multimedia menu it was unable to play the CD. I received no error message, just a drive in use message. This is not a hardware problem, as regular CD-Roms work just fine. This is not a CD problem as CD's plays just fine in my stereo Thanks for some assistance. John -- http://johnw.freeshell.org/Stratega/ - A Macintosh Stratego clone http://www.yellowgames.com - A Windows/PocketPC/Windows CE Stratego clone |
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:56:58 -0800, John
scribbled some thoughts: I am using Win 98 B on a Compaq Armada 1700 laptop. I dont regularly use my computer to play audio CD's, and if I do use my computer for audio, its usually to export a CD track to a Mp3 file and play that way. Back in July I installed the latest version of Quicktime for Windows 98 at that time. Quicktime took over all my audio files that normally played with Windows Media Player 7 (sorry last version that is compatible with the Windows CE HPC2000 OS, so I cant upgrade). Well just today I inserted many audio discs in my computer and discovered that they would not play. The CD basicially did nothing, and when I opened up Windows Media Player 7, the program crashed. Or when I opened up the CD Player app in the accessories/multimedia menu it was unable to play the CD. I received no error message, just a drive in use message. This is not a hardware problem, as regular CD-Roms work just fine. This is not a CD problem as CD's plays just fine in my stereo Thanks for some assistance. John Sounds like QuickTime (QT) has associated itself either properly (to it) or improperly (to it) at any rate I would check in QTs options to see if there is a way to remove it's audio/CD association. If you can't find any, then: 1) Start Settings Folder Options File types (tab) 2) Scroll down till you find Audio CD. 3) Highlight Audio CD 4) Select Edit 5) Highlight play 6) Select Edit 7) The path show show something like: "C:\PROGRAM FILES\WINAMP\WINAMP.EXE" NOTE: I use Winamp v.2.90 and have no idea what the path is on your comp to Windows Media Player 7. 8) If there is no path, or it is not to the correct application, then browse to the proggie you want to have play/associate with audio CDs. 9) OK on out. You may have to reboot. If that doesn't work, or if you want to try TweakUI before doing all that, then start TweakUIRepair tabRepair associations from the drop down. You may have to reboot. If you don't have TweakUI: Read about it: http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstati.../NTTweakUI.asp or if the above breaks up and is unclickable http://tinyurl.com/i4p Download it: http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...US/Tweakui.exe or http://tinyurl.com/3lsi -- Sincerely, | NOTE: Best viewed in a fixed pitch font | (©) (©) Andrew H. Carter | ------ooo--(_)--ooo------ d(-_-)b | /// \\\ |
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