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Why won WMP support digital playback on my CD-ROM drive if I change its drive letter?

April 26, 2017CD-ROM digital drive letter playback support WMP

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Why won WMP support digital playback on my CD-ROM drive if I change its drive letter?

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Brief investigation seems to indicate that this is a bug in Win9x when multiple CD-ROM drives are installed. Let Windows decide the drive letter and you’ll be fine. Alternatively, Barry Watzman sez that Adaptec Easy CD Creator, Music Match Jukebox (which rips to WMA), and Audio Grabber all support digital ripping in this configuration. [Supposedly DAEMON Tools also causes digital playback to fail, because it also changes the CD-ROM drive letter.] Q: WM Player 9 Series’s HDCD playback doesn’t work on my drive. A: On some cards HDCD will not work if hardware acceleration is turned off.

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Brief investigation seems to indicate that this is a bug in Win9x when multiple CD-ROM drives are installed. Let Windows decide the drive letter and you’ll be fine. Alternatively, Barry Watzman sez that Adaptec Easy CD Creator, Music Match Jukebox (which rips to WMA), and Audio Grabber all support digital ripping in this configuration. [Supposedly DAEMON Tools also causes digital playback to fail, because it also changes the CD-ROM drive letter.