Can't play audio CDs (.cda)

[kapow85]

I've been running Vista with service pack 1 for a few weeks now (before that XP) and I've noticed that I cannot play cda files. I have no tourble playing DVDs, data CDs and mp3 CDs and they all play fine, it just seems to be the cda files.

I've tried on both of my DVD drives (both samsungs sh-s183 and sh-s203) and several software (windows media player, winamp, foobar, vlc) but to no avail. I've also checked the file type associations in control panel which shows that windows media player is the defaul software for cda, I've tried changing this to winamp but still no good.

on to the error messages, when I use windows media player 11 I get this message:-
Windows Media Player cannot read the CD. The disc might be dirty or damaged. Turn on error correction, and then try again.

with foobar2000 v0.9.5.6 I get:-
Decoding failure at 0:00.000 (I/O error (win32 #1117)):
"cdda://01FC76E3,02"

winamp v5.541 doesn't give me an error message it just skips through all the tracks without playing them. VLC 0.9.2 just freezes on me.

It's definitley not a problem with the CDs, I've tried about 10 different CDs and non of them would work on my computer but they all work on a hi-fi or another computer. I've also tried formatting my computer and reinstalling vista but that didn't work either.

So if someone could please help me with this cos I really don't know what else to do.

[hech54]

I've never been able to play .cda files by themselves.

[kapow85]

I know the cda files are just shortcut files but I don't really know what format the actual audio is on an audio cd all I know is that there are cda files, so I just put cda just to show it's not that I can't play any audio just a specific type, mp3 plays fine for me it's just CDs with cda files.

oh and I'll just add as well, it's not just playing the CDs I can no longer burn off audio CDs in nero or rip files off them either.

[minidv2dvd]

try this

1.Open Device Manager.

2.Right-click your CD drive, and then click Properties.

3.Clear the Enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device check box.


[edit] you might have to reboot after to make the change.

[kapow85]

I can't find the Enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device check box. I know where it is on xp, it's on the properties tab in the device properties window but on vista there is no properties tab, I've only got general, dvd region, volumes, driver and details tabs and I've gone through them all and there's no check box to be found.

I don't know if it can be found somewhere else on vista or if there's some alternative way of doing this. Thanks for the reply though

[jman98]

Some countries in the EU use copy protection on their CDs. Maybe this is your problem. Vista is ultra paranoid about (gasp!) violating someone's copyright so I could certainly see that by default it may refuse to play something if it has any inkling that copyright protection might be being violated. Then again it may not be this at all, but your post is kind of vague and for all we know you've only tried to play 2 or 3 copy protected CDs. I'd feel more likely that this wasn't the issue if I knew that you tried and failed to play a CD you made yourself that plays fine elsewhere. Your error messages to me seem to potentially be copyright protection issues though.

[kapow85]

I've tried about 10 CDs 7 of which were CDs that I'd burnt off myself and I've checked that they all work on hi-fi and on another computer.

I'll describe exactly what happens when I try and play a CD, on every single CD it'll always play the first few seconds of the first track, sometimes it might even get to around 1 minute into the track then it won't play any more of the track it will just skip straight onto the next one and the next one and the next one etc. Sometimes it will not play anything else other than the first part of the first track and sometimes it will play a few seconds of maybe two or three random tracks on the CD.

That's why the first thing I thought was that it was the CDs that were damaged but nowhere else do I have this problem, it only happens on my computer.

[The1]

Same drive, same problem. fix= instal new driver with mediashield?

http://forums.techarena.in/vista-music-video/991486.htm

[kapow85]

yeah it my nvidia mcp61p chipset driver that needed updating. Everything's working great now, thanks for all the help