Windows XP and playing audio CD's

[starblood]

How do you get your audio CD's playing in the computer CD player with your headphones plugged into the player and not the sound card?

I've just updated my work machine from Windows 98 to Windows XP and now everytime I put in a audio CD it autostarts playing through my media player but can only be heard if plugged into the soundcard.

If I load the CD with shift held down the autostart is disabled and I can play music via the CD headphones socket by hitting the "play" button on the player, but I have minimal control for skipping tracks and pausing (coz it has to be done on the players front buttons and not via the media player)

Any ideas?

 

[ie6user]

Run

devmgmt.msc

, expand

DVD/CD-ROM drives

, select your CD-ROM, Properties (double click), go to the Properties tab, and uncheck

Enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device.

This could work for you in as far as being able to get output through your CD-ROM's phone out, but there's no guarantee: apparently your CD-ROMs firmware switches off the (analogue) phone out jack when digitally playing back (through the IDE connector cable); now you tell the system to use analogie playback (probably through a cable from your CD-ROM to your soundcard); this might have the side effect of giving output to the headphone jack as well..

But: why not using your soundcard anyway? That usually has a better amplifier (ok, not usually needed for a headphone), and you can use the sound processing features of the media player (on digital playback, that is); even more so if you might have XP Plus! installed.. ---
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