Why won WMP support digital playback on my CD-ROM drive?
First, you’d need DMA/digital audio extraction turned on. Second, WMP tests the quality of the digital read. If the CD-ROM is giving a dirty read – spewing too many errors into the data feed – WMP will reject digital playback on that drive. Some players are more accepting of bad reads, but continuing to read digitally from a dirty source can result in very nasty errors, and as such WMP plays it safe and disallows digital reads from dirty source CD-ROM drives. You may simply have a bad drive. Also, see the following question…
First, you’d need DMA/digital audio extraction turned on. Second, WMP tests the quality of the digital read. If the CD-ROM is giving a dirty read – spewing too many errors into the data feed – WMP will reject digital playback on that drive. Some players are more accepting of bad reads, but continuing to read digitally from a dirty source can result in very nasty errors, and as such WMP plays it safe and disallows digital reads from dirty source CD-ROM drives. Also, see the following question…
