Technical Support Note
 

Product(s) involve	:	CD ROM drives

Third party product(s)	:	Microsoft Media Player

 

Subject

CD Audio option not available in the "Device" menu when running media player.  
Thus cannot play CD Audio disk.

Description

User will encounter the above mentioned problem after a new installation of 
Windows 3.1 with [MCI CD Audio].

The reason is when installing the MCI CD Audio driver, it will check the existent 
of CD title in the CDROM and "remember" this status.  However, in the case of 
no CD title in the CDROM, there is no error message to reflect the status and 
the installation will still complete with the message "One CD ROM drive 
detected".

Therefore if user install the [MCI] CD Audio driver without inserting a CD title in 
the CD ROM drive, the installation will still complete, however, when he/she run 
the media player and select the "Device" menu, CD Audio is not available.

Solution/Action

There are two solutions to this problem:

1.	Insert a CD title into the CDROM drive and reinstall the [MCI] CD Audio 
driver again.

2.	Exit Windows, use an editor to edit a file called MPLAYER.INI in the 
WINDOWS directory and delete the line that contains CDAudio under the 
[devices] section and restart Windows again.  For example:

	[devices]
	WaveAudio=350, Sound
	Sequencer=286, MIDI Sequencer
	AVIVideo=350, Video for Windows
	CDAudio=0,		===>	Delete this line