CDA: ... not support the format you are trying to play.

I'm having a peculiar problem with all of the media
players I use: None of them recognize audio CD files.
Upon first loading an CD I'll get the following from
Windows Media Player:

Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The file is
either corrupt or the Player does not support the format
you are trying to play.
(Clicking more information provides the following error
code: 0xC00D1199)

This occurs with all audio CDs tested, and some of these
CDs had worked previously.

When I try to access an audio CD from within Windows Media
Player by selecting CD Audio under the Play menu I get a
different error:

Windows Media Player cannot find the specified file. Be
sure the path is typed correctly. If it is, the file does
not exist at the specified location, or the computer where
the file is stored is offline.
(Clicking more information provides the following error
code: 0xC00D1197)

This is very strange as I can view the CD contents from
Explorer with out issue..

I've tried uninstalling the CD-ROM both from the OS and at
the hardware level) and letting it reinstall on reboot.
I've tried reinstalling the Multimedia components through
the Windows components wizard. I've tried reinstalling
Media player.

It seems that the CODEC for CDAs is corrupt, but I can't
find any resources that talk about how to address this....

Any suggestions, short of reinstalling the operating
system, would be greatly appreciated.

 

This should be an MCI-level error, because that's about all you could hit
that would break *everybody* on your system. I know that's not much to go
on, but hopefully that narrowing of arena-to-look-at should help.

WMP doesn't touch the MCI settings in any fashion you care about, so you can
stop tinkering with it. I do some tweaks to add WMP types to MCI's
available options, but CD playback is done already by mcicda.drv or so.

-Zach