Topic: Playing CD Audio on XP combo drive

[Patrice]

I am unable to play a CD-Audio from a combo drive on a notebook running XP home edition (Note the *.cda are playing just fine when using Windows Media Player).

Does there is any parameter that must be turned on?

(I am still using BASS.DLL version 1.7)

Thank you

[Ian @ un4seen]

By "combo drive", I guess you mean a CD/DVD combo? That shouldn't really affect things. Does specifying the drive letter (eg. "D:") in the BASS_CDInit call help?

Also, when you check in Media Player, make sure "Digital playback" is disabled to make it a like-for-like test.

[Patrice]

Ian,

Yes, cd/dvd combo.

It seems that this occured with laptops allowing to play CD-Audio even when the OS/computer itself is not running.

What if "Digital Playback" is disabled?
Would they still be able to use the cd-player alone?

Thank you.

[Ian @ un4seen]

What if "Digital Playback" is disabled?
Would they still be able to use the cd-player alone?

Yes. The "cd-player alone" won't be affected by a software option... "Digital playback" is where the software (eg. Media Player) reads the data from the CD to play it.

Anyway, did you try specifying the drive letter?