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Old February 4th 06, 06:06 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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I've got the following media players installed:

WMP9
WMP6.4
RP Enterprise (small, non-intrusive, and worth having, IMO)
MP Classic

Problem: Of these applications WMP9 is the only one that will recognize and
play an audio CD, including retail pre-recorded ones.
I believe this all started when I upgraded to WMP9 about 6 months ago, but
I'm not really sure.

It's not a big deal, WMP9 is fine for this, but it's always nice to have
things working the way they're supposed to, so whatever motor neurons are
crisscrossed inside the registry, I'd like to hook 'em up right.


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Old February 4th 06, 06:22 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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One possible solution would be to uninstall WMP 9 and just roll back to WMP
6.4 (which I prefer, actually!), and reinstall (if necessary), WMP 6.4 and
MP classic. I never was really crazy about either WMP 7 or WMP 9, but your
tastes may be different. But I also have MMJB and EZCD on my computer,
which makes up for that. :-)


"Roger Fink" wrote in message
...
I've got the following media players installed:

WMP9
WMP6.4
RP Enterprise (small, non-intrusive, and worth having, IMO)
MP Classic

Problem: Of these applications WMP9 is the only one that will recognize

and
play an audio CD, including retail pre-recorded ones.
I believe this all started when I upgraded to WMP9 about 6 months ago, but
I'm not really sure.

It's not a big deal, WMP9 is fine for this, but it's always nice to have
things working the way they're supposed to, so whatever motor neurons are
crisscrossed inside the registry, I'd like to hook 'em up right.




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Old February 4th 06, 07:08 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Well I'm not a particular fan of WMP9 as I've stated at other times in this
distinguished forum (at least until my text hit the page), but love it or
hate it, you do need it to play the latest generation of embedded videos,
and that was the only reason I upgraded. So I think for me keeping 9 would
be one of the defining parameters of the problem.

O.T. If it's strictly a GUI issue, you can download a skin for 9, "Compact
Classic v1.1", complete with Spanish tooltips, that puts you back in the
time machine to 6.4. (and you can maximize it full screen too). I've got it
installed right now, although I don't use it as a "default", and one nice
thing about it is that when you close it in the maximized position it will
open fully maxxed if you've set it up right. Someone can correct me on this,
and if past is prologue surely will, but I think I read once that it was
part of the early 9 download package but was taken out. I just did a Google
search and came up with only one entry, at this URL, but I can't vouch for
what you'd be downloading (although this is likely where I got it from), so
caveat:
http://www.skinz.org/files////23/6698/ .
At least this way, you can now watch those great CNN videos, preceeded by
those great CNN ads, preceeded by those great CNN ads....


Bill in Co. wrote:
One possible solution would be to uninstall WMP 9 and just roll back
to WMP
6.4 (which I prefer, actually!), and reinstall (if necessary), WMP
6.4 and MP classic. I never was really crazy about either WMP 7 or
WMP 9, but your tastes may be different. But I also have MMJB and
EZCD on my computer, which makes up for that. :-)


"Roger Fink" wrote in message
...
I've got the following media players installed:

WMP9
WMP6.4
RP Enterprise (small, non-intrusive, and worth having, IMO)
MP Classic

Problem: Of these applications WMP9 is the only one that will
recognize and play an audio CD, including retail pre-recorded ones.
I believe this all started when I upgraded to WMP9 about 6 months
ago, but I'm not really sure.

It's not a big deal, WMP9 is fine for this, but it's always nice to
have things working the way they're supposed to, so whatever motor
neurons are crisscrossed inside the registry, I'd like to hook 'em
up right.



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Old February 4th 06, 07:25 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Roger Fink wrote:
Well I'm not a particular fan of WMP9 as I've stated at other times in

this
distinguished forum (at least until my text hit the page), but love it or
hate it, you do need it to play the latest generation of embedded videos,
and that was the only reason I upgraded. So I think for me keeping 9 would
be one of the defining parameters of the problem.


Won't Media Classic Player, or Zoom Player, work instead? Or maybe you
need the codecs that you can ONLY get if you install WMP9, but I'm not sure
that that is correct, either, come to think of it. You might still be able
to get around that. I know that there were some MS version 9 codecs that
were available for the WMP 6.4 player, to allow it to still play at least
some of the newer stuff.

O.T. If it's strictly a GUI issue, you can download a skin for 9, "Compact
Classic v1.1", complete with Spanish tooltips, that puts you back in the
time machine to 6.4. (and you can maximize it full screen too).


It's still more of a resource hog, IIRC. And nowhere near as
instantaneous on loading, like WMP 6.4. I don't use "playlists", so
that's not a concern. But then again, I'm not trying to load the most
current video stuff, like you are. For one thing, I'm on dial up. For
another, I'd rather get it off line, if I really want to see it (like a
DVD), or just watch what comes in cable TV!

I've got it installed right now, although I don't use it as a "default",

and one nice
thing about it is that when you close it in the maximized position it will
open fully maxxed if you've set it up right. Someone can correct me on

this,
and if past is prologue surely will, but I think I read once that it was
part of the early 9 download package but was taken out. I just did a

Google
search and came up with only one entry, at this URL, but I can't vouch for
what you'd be downloading (although this is likely where I got it from),

so
caveat:
http://www.skinz.org/files////23/6698/ .


At least this way, you can now watch those great CNN videos, preceeded by
those great CNN ads, preceeded by those great CNN ads....


Hey, I can watch CNN on cable TV. What do I need to see it on-line for?
And *especially* on dial up, LOL. :-)


Bill in Co. wrote:
One possible solution would be to uninstall WMP 9 and just roll back
to WMP
6.4 (which I prefer, actually!), and reinstall (if necessary), WMP
6.4 and MP classic. I never was really crazy about either WMP 7 or
WMP 9, but your tastes may be different. But I also have MMJB and
EZCD on my computer, which makes up for that. :-)


"Roger Fink" wrote in message
...
I've got the following media players installed:

WMP9
WMP6.4
RP Enterprise (small, non-intrusive, and worth having, IMO)
MP Classic

Problem: Of these applications WMP9 is the only one that will
recognize and play an audio CD, including retail pre-recorded ones.
I believe this all started when I upgraded to WMP9 about 6 months
ago, but I'm not really sure.

It's not a big deal, WMP9 is fine for this, but it's always nice to
have things working the way they're supposed to, so whatever motor
neurons are crisscrossed inside the registry, I'd like to hook 'em
up right.



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Old February 4th 06, 08:10 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Bill in Co. wrote:
Roger Fink wrote:
Well I'm not a particular fan of WMP9 as I've stated at other times
in this distinguished forum (at least until my text hit the page),
but love it or hate it, you do need it to play the latest generation
of embedded videos, and that was the only reason I upgraded. So I
think for me keeping 9 would be one of the defining parameters of
the problem.


Won't Media Classic Player, or Zoom Player, work instead? Or maybe
you need the codecs that you can ONLY get if you install WMP9, but
I'm not sure that that is correct, either, come to think of it. You
might still be able to get around that. I know that there were some
MS version 9 codecs that were available for the WMP 6.4 player, to
allow it to still play at least some of the newer stuff.

O.T. If it's strictly a GUI issue, you can download a skin for 9,
"Compact Classic v1.1", complete with Spanish tooltips, that puts
you back in the time machine to 6.4. (and you can maximize it full
screen too).


It's still more of a resource hog, IIRC. And nowhere near as
instantaneous on loading, like WMP 6.4. I don't use "playlists", so
that's not a concern. But then again, I'm not trying to load the
most current video stuff, like you are. For one thing, I'm on dial
up. For another, I'd rather get it off line, if I really want to
see it (like a DVD), or just watch what comes in cable TV!

I've got it installed right now, although I don't use it as a
"default", and one nice thing about it is that when you close it in
the maximized position it will open fully maxxed if you've set it up
right. Someone can correct me on this, and if past is prologue
surely will, but I think I read once that it was part of the early 9
download package but was taken out. I just did a Google search and
came up with only one entry, at this URL, but I can't vouch for what
you'd be downloading (although this is likely where I got it from),
so caveat:
http://www.skinz.org/files////23/6698/ .


At least this way, you can now watch those great CNN videos,
preceeded by those great CNN ads, preceeded by those great CNN
ads....


Hey, I can watch CNN on cable TV. What do I need to see it
on-line for? And *especially* on dial up, LOL. :-)


Bill in Co. wrote:
One possible solution would be to uninstall WMP 9 and just roll back
to WMP
6.4 (which I prefer, actually!), and reinstall (if necessary), WMP
6.4 and MP classic. I never was really crazy about either WMP 7 or
WMP 9, but your tastes may be different. But I also have MMJB and
EZCD on my computer, which makes up for that. :-)


"Roger Fink" wrote in message
...
I've got the following media players installed:

WMP9
WMP6.4
RP Enterprise (small, non-intrusive, and worth having, IMO)
MP Classic

Problem: Of these applications WMP9 is the only one that will
recognize and play an audio CD, including retail pre-recorded ones.
I believe this all started when I upgraded to WMP9 about 6 months
ago, but I'm not really sure.

It's not a big deal, WMP9 is fine for this, but it's always nice to
have things working the way they're supposed to, so whatever motor
neurons are crisscrossed inside the registry, I'd like to hook 'em
up right.


I gave up on Cable a long time ago - money grubbing monopolists gotten
bloated, lazy and reactive due to high margins and no competition, and now
fighting to stave off lower priced alternative systems of content delivery.
Uh oh....

But to your other points. MPC or not, I do believe it's not possible to
watch newer Windows streaming video without WMP9 installed even if you NEVER
open it. And MPC is terrific but it's not perfect. For instance, while it
will play most videos sometimes the subject matter isn't framed right (to
the point of genuine distraction) with shockwave, mpg or wmv files. And
maybe six people (or less) have been able to get it to play streaming
RealAudio files. But anything that gets Quicktime off your machine should be
required by law. To me it's an in-your-face critique of the software
industry - I don't want four media players any more than I want a Panasonic
for channels 2-12 and a Sony for 13 to 99.


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Old February 4th 06, 01:01 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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"Roger Fink" wrote in message

I've got the following media players installed:

WMP9
WMP6.4
RP Enterprise (small, non-intrusive, and worth having, IMO)
MP Classic

Problem: Of these applications WMP9 is the only one that will recognize
and play an audio CD, including retail pre-recorded ones.
I believe this all started when I upgraded to WMP9 about 6 months ago,
but I'm not really sure.

It's not a big deal, WMP9 is fine for this, but it's always nice to have
things working the way they're supposed to, so whatever motor neurons are
crisscrossed inside the registry, I'd like to hook 'em up right.


How do you want to have it working? iow, which player to open the CD?
I remember when you first installed WMP9 and were working through different
things and we talked about this and that concerning it:
http://tinyurl.com/buut3
Using and having 'all' the major media players custom installed and working
well together has always been a fun thing to do of mine, and you can make
them behave anyway you want if you're into it. You can even have v9 use
some of it's icons for the wmv things and use 6.4 to show all it's unique
ones too so that each different type of audio/video file has its own icon
like 6.4 used to have them do until v9 wanted to make them all one, etc...
but I prefer to have them be individual; and having each other major
players show their particular file type icons and play only it's audio
files for that too... Any bad mannered aspect of any player can be tamed
as you like.

What player do you want to have open the CD then? ..6.4? It'll always
have to be one or the other depending on how you set options.

(I'll be away for the weekend and have a tight schedule at work so might
not always be able to answer right away these days, but I always will)

Rick







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Old February 4th 06, 10:53 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Rick Chauvin wrote:
"Roger Fink" wrote in message

I've got the following media players installed:

WMP9
WMP6.4
RP Enterprise (small, non-intrusive, and worth having, IMO)
MP Classic

Problem: Of these applications WMP9 is the only one that will
recognize and play an audio CD, including retail pre-recorded ones.
I believe this all started when I upgraded to WMP9 about 6 months
ago, but I'm not really sure.

It's not a big deal, WMP9 is fine for this, but it's always nice to
have things working the way they're supposed to, so whatever motor
neurons are crisscrossed inside the registry, I'd like to hook 'em
up right.


How do you want to have it working? iow, which player to open the CD?
I remember when you first installed WMP9 and were working through
different things and we talked about this and that concerning it:
http://tinyurl.com/buut3
Using and having 'all' the major media players custom installed and
working well together has always been a fun thing to do of mine, and
you can make them behave anyway you want if you're into it. You can
even have v9 use some of it's icons for the wmv things and use 6.4 to
show all it's unique ones too so that each different type of
audio/video file has its own icon like 6.4 used to have them do until
v9 wanted to make them all one, etc... but I prefer to have them be
individual; and having each other major players show their particular
file type icons and play only it's audio files for that too... Any
bad mannered aspect of any player can be tamed as you like.

What player do you want to have open the CD then? ..6.4? It'll
always have to be one or the other depending on how you set options.

(I'll be away for the weekend and have a tight schedule at work so
might not always be able to answer right away these days, but I
always will)

Rick


Hi Rick. First the inevitable corrections which arise out of posting at 2:00
a.m. (and most other times) while serving as your own proofreader. For the
sake of accuracy, I've been able to play streaming RealAudio on MPC but,
even if it's not opened, RealPlayer had to be installed to get streaming to
work, at least for me.

I've sort of made peace with all these media players and what I've tried to
do is arrange things so that MPC is the default for all audio except ra and
wma audio streams, and WMP9 and RPE the defaults for all videos except of
course quicktime .mov. So in this case putting things right would merely
consist of making media player classic the default for audio cd files. This
should have the beneficial side effect of unblocking whatever it is that's
preventing the other media players from recognizing cda files.






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Old February 4th 06, 11:15 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Hi Roger,

Open WMP9, click the Tools menu Options File Types tab:
Uncheck the box for Music CD Playback, click Apply/OK, and close WMP9

Open MPC, click the View menu Options.
Expand the Player section and click Formats, in the left pane.
In the right pane, put a check in the box for CD Audio Track, click Apply/OK, and
close MPC.

Does it work now or do you still have a problem?
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"Roger Fink" wrote in message
...
Rick Chauvin wrote:
"Roger Fink" wrote in message

I've got the following media players installed:

WMP9
WMP6.4
RP Enterprise (small, non-intrusive, and worth having, IMO)
MP Classic

Problem: Of these applications WMP9 is the only one that will
recognize and play an audio CD, including retail pre-recorded ones.
I believe this all started when I upgraded to WMP9 about 6 months
ago, but I'm not really sure.

It's not a big deal, WMP9 is fine for this, but it's always nice to
have things working the way they're supposed to, so whatever motor
neurons are crisscrossed inside the registry, I'd like to hook 'em
up right.


How do you want to have it working? iow, which player to open the CD?
I remember when you first installed WMP9 and were working through
different things and we talked about this and that concerning it:
http://tinyurl.com/buut3
Using and having 'all' the major media players custom installed and
working well together has always been a fun thing to do of mine, and
you can make them behave anyway you want if you're into it. You can
even have v9 use some of it's icons for the wmv things and use 6.4 to
show all it's unique ones too so that each different type of
audio/video file has its own icon like 6.4 used to have them do until
v9 wanted to make them all one, etc... but I prefer to have them be
individual; and having each other major players show their particular
file type icons and play only it's audio files for that too... Any
bad mannered aspect of any player can be tamed as you like.

What player do you want to have open the CD then? ..6.4? It'll
always have to be one or the other depending on how you set options.

(I'll be away for the weekend and have a tight schedule at work so
might not always be able to answer right away these days, but I
always will)

Rick


Hi Rick. First the inevitable corrections which arise out of posting at 2:00
a.m. (and most other times) while serving as your own proofreader. For the
sake of accuracy, I've been able to play streaming RealAudio on MPC but,
even if it's not opened, RealPlayer had to be installed to get streaming to
work, at least for me.

I've sort of made peace with all these media players and what I've tried to
do is arrange things so that MPC is the default for all audio except ra and
wma audio streams, and WMP9 and RPE the defaults for all videos except of
course quicktime .mov. So in this case putting things right would merely
consist of making media player classic the default for audio cd files. This
should have the beneficial side effect of unblocking whatever it is that's
preventing the other media players from recognizing cda files.







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Old February 4th 06, 11:17 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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I thought RealPlayer Enterprise was for WinXP.....that's what I saw at the web page
for it. Do you have an older version?
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

"Roger Fink" wrote in message
...
I've got the following media players installed:

WMP9
WMP6.4
RP Enterprise (small, non-intrusive, and worth having, IMO)
MP Classic

Problem: Of these applications WMP9 is the only one that will recognize and
play an audio CD, including retail pre-recorded ones.
I believe this all started when I upgraded to WMP9 about 6 months ago, but
I'm not really sure.

It's not a big deal, WMP9 is fine for this, but it's always nice to have
things working the way they're supposed to, so whatever motor neurons are
crisscrossed inside the registry, I'd like to hook 'em up right.



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Old February 5th 06, 12:00 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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No, no luck. Two things that should have occurred didn't. First, no player
of any kind popped up after I inserted a CD. After that I went into explorer
and right-clicked to open one of the cda files on the disk. MPC came up but
with the message, "Cannot render the file."

glee wrote:
Hi Roger,

Open WMP9, click the Tools menu Options File Types tab:
Uncheck the box for Music CD Playback, click Apply/OK, and close WMP9

Open MPC, click the View menu Options.
Expand the Player section and click Formats, in the left pane.
In the right pane, put a check in the box for CD Audio Track, click
Apply/OK, and close MPC.

Does it work now or do you still have a problem?

"Roger Fink" wrote in message
...
Rick Chauvin wrote:
"Roger Fink" wrote in message

I've got the following media players installed:

WMP9
WMP6.4
RP Enterprise (small, non-intrusive, and worth having, IMO)
MP Classic

Problem: Of these applications WMP9 is the only one that will
recognize and play an audio CD, including retail pre-recorded ones.
I believe this all started when I upgraded to WMP9 about 6 months
ago, but I'm not really sure.

It's not a big deal, WMP9 is fine for this, but it's always nice to
have things working the way they're supposed to, so whatever motor
neurons are crisscrossed inside the registry, I'd like to hook 'em
up right.

How do you want to have it working? iow, which player to open the
CD?
I remember when you first installed WMP9 and were working through
different things and we talked about this and that concerning it:
http://tinyurl.com/buut3
Using and having 'all' the major media players custom installed and
working well together has always been a fun thing to do of mine, and
you can make them behave anyway you want if you're into it. You
can
even have v9 use some of it's icons for the wmv things and use 6.4
to
show all it's unique ones too so that each different type of
audio/video file has its own icon like 6.4 used to have them do
until
v9 wanted to make them all one, etc... but I prefer to have them be
individual; and having each other major players show their
particular
file type icons and play only it's audio files for that too... Any
bad mannered aspect of any player can be tamed as you like.

What player do you want to have open the CD then? ..6.4? It'll
always have to be one or the other depending on how you set options.

(I'll be away for the weekend and have a tight schedule at work so
might not always be able to answer right away these days, but I
always will)

Rick


Hi Rick. First the inevitable corrections which arise out of posting
at 2:00 a.m. (and most other times) while serving as your own
proofreader. For the sake of accuracy, I've been able to play
streaming RealAudio on MPC but,
even if it's not opened, RealPlayer had to be installed to get
streaming to work, at least for me.

I've sort of made peace with all these media players and what I've
tried to
do is arrange things so that MPC is the default for all audio except
ra and wma audio streams, and WMP9 and RPE the defaults for all
videos except of course quicktime .mov. So in this case putting
things right would merely consist of making media player classic the
default for audio cd files. This should have the beneficial side
effect of unblocking whatever it is that's preventing the other
media players from recognizing cda files.



 




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