CD ROM only reads music files when using media player

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When I try to play an audio cd, my cd rom drive will only read the files if
using windows media player. When using musicmatch or sonic record now, the
programs say the cd drive is empty. No files are being read, even though in
the settings of both programs all the types of music files are checked, cda,
mp3, etc. Any ideas? I am baffled, musicmatch used to work for me.
 
Troy said:
When I try to play an audio cd, my cd rom drive will only read the files if
using windows media player. When using musicmatch or sonic record now, the
programs say the cd drive is empty. No files are being read, even though in
the settings of both programs all the types of music files are checked, cda,
mp3, etc. Any ideas? I am baffled, musicmatch used to work for me.
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Do you have WMP set as your default player?

This may not help, but occasionally when the CD drive shows empty when I'm
using MusicMatch, I just click on the play button until it gets past the
glitch, and reads the file.

I started having this problem a month or so ago, after a Windows Update.
Since MM is so tightly integrated with IE... I suspect something changed
that affects MMJB.
bj
 
File associations don't affect the ability of a player to read a CD....
Does Explorer see the CD?
Do you have AutoPlay or AutoInsert Notification turned off, perhaps?
Does Musicmatch see the CD if you restart Musicmatch?
If you go to WMP's Tools:Options:Devices and switch WMP to use Analog
playback for that drive, does it still work? I believe Musicmatch and Sonic
likely use Analog playback, whereas WMP uses digital......
 
Explorer does see the cd. The songs even have musicmatch icons next to them,
but music match wont play them, it says drive is empty. Media player will
play them. The other things you told me to do,. did not help.
 
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