Issues burning CD's in XP

[Bible John]

Whenever I try and copy a audio file to a CD in explorer and I attempt to
burn the CD, Windows Media Player launches. How can I burn a CD without
hassling with that application?


John

 

[big D]

Autorun is probably detecting the cd format type as an audio cd and
launching the associated application.

Disable autorun, or you can at least turn off the association to
automatically play audio cd's when inserted.

 

[Kenny]

Or hold down the Shift key when you put the CD in, that stops it
autoplaying.

 

[Bible John]

Autorun is probably detecting the cd format type as an audio cd and
launching the associated application.

Disable autorun, or you can at least turn off the association to
automatically play audio cd's when inserted.

How do I do this?

Thanks,


John
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[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

How do I do this?

Right click the drive and pick Properties | Auto Play

 

[Jungle Jim]

Whenever I try and copy a audio file to a CD in explorer and I
attempt to burn the CD, Windows Media Player launches. How can I
burn a CD without hassling with that application?


John

AFAIK, burning a CD can only be done through an application. Windows
cannot write directly to a CD. If you have some sort of Packet
driver installedm then you may do so, but the CD will only be
readable through the packet driver. An example of a paccket driver
is InCD from NERO.

This has been my experience - some one please correct me if needed.

 

[Grinder]

AFAIK, burning a CD can only be done through an application. Windows
cannot write directly to a CD. If you have some sort of Packet
driver installedm then you may do so, but the CD will only be
readable through the packet driver. An example of a paccket driver
is InCD from NERO.

This has been my experience - some one please correct me if needed.

Windows XP has the ability to burn data CDs built-in. Unfortunately it
cannot burn DVDs, but CDs (generally) work well enough. You can
enable/disable the feature in the Recording tab of the drive's properties.

 

[Rock]

AFAIK, burning a CD can only be done through an application. Windows
cannot write directly to a CD. If you have some sort of Packet
driver installedm then you may do so, but the CD will only be
readable through the packet driver. An example of a paccket driver
is InCD from NERO.

This has been my experience - some one please correct me if needed.

XP cannot write to a CD as a giant floppy (for this packet writing software
is needed as you indicated) but XP does have CD mastering capability. In
that regard it treats CD-R and CD-RW the same way, and CD-RW's can be
rewritten. It also has built in support for and can write to DVD-RAM. It
cannot natively write to DVD R/RW in any fashion.

http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm