Hello Neil
I've tried the steps you listed below. When the cd is inserted, there is a
noise and then nothing. No blinking green light on the computer itself and no
whirring noise like the cd is spinning. When I go into my computer, there is
no D drive with the cd contents listed. In the media player there is nothing
in the "now playing" tab.
Again, the library works fine. The mixer is all up and working.
I am at a loss. One day it was working fine and the next day it wasn't.I'm
not the most computer literate guy either but I know I didn't do anything to
mess things up other than turn it on the next day. Anything you can suggest
will be greatly appreciated.
"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:20:01 -0700, Doobsey
> <> wrote:
>
> >One day I ripped 4 or 5 cds in my player. No problems, everything played back
> >fine.
> >The next day I went to do the same thing and when I clicked the rip tap this
> >message came up "A cd drive is needed in order to rip music from cds".
> >Aside from that, the player will not play a cd when I put it into the drive.
> >I can play everything from the library fine. Please help, anyone?
>
> OK so the library's working, so you can definitely hear music.
>
> I'm worried you're not able to play a CD which is pretty basic stuff
> to go wrong - when the CD is in the drive, can you just not hear it,
> or it's not shown at all in media player ?
>
> To start, if there's a light on the front of the CD drive, see if it
> lights up or blinks continuously when a CD is inserted.
>
> Then try to listen to whether the CD itself is spinning in the drive
> (i.e. to check if the drive motor still works)
>
> If that seems OK, look at the contents of the CD in windows explorer -
> often the CD is shown as drive letter D: and you can see (on an audio
> CD) a list of files named track01.cda , track02.cda ... track12.cda
> and so on
>
> If they're present, then the CD motor and laser are working fine, and
> windows is able to see there's content on there (actually the cda
> files are placeholders rather than the actual audio data files)
>
> After that - check the windows volume control - down near the Clock in
> the taskbar. Make sure you can see Mixer Properties and check out the
> Playback options on XP to ensure the CD input isn't listed as "Muted"
>
> Let us know how those basic tests go on...
>
> HTH
> Cheers - Neil
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