CD not playing with anything?

Greenlizard0 · 22 Jul 2008 at 17:11

I bought an audio CD yesterday and have tried popping it into my computer. However nothing appears to play the songs?

Winamp just starts a few seconds of the first song - and then skips through the entire album in seconds. VLC appears to go further, but I lose all control after the first fourty seconds or so. Windows Media Player doesn't work, neither does the blank free version of it.

I have just tried it in my hi-fi CD player and all appears well.

Why is this? Has this stupid hum buggeration of a CD got so much copy protection that the software just refuses to play it?

bledd · 22 Jul 2008 at 17:38

try holding left shift (stops autoplay) when putting it in

or install anydvd and use the audiocd protection removal option

they're so gay

Greenlizard0 · 23 Jul 2008 at 01:11

Cheers for the suggestion bledd, this is ridiculous. I can't believe that I'm unable to play it in my computer. Is there a new copy protection doodah recently? Because none of my other CD's do not play.

bledd · 23 Jul 2008 at 08:25

i don't know

i bought anydvd, so install it as standard

Greenlizard0 · 24 Jul 2008 at 20:06

bledd. said:
i don't know

i bought anydvd, so install it as standard

Fair, do you know of anything else that will play it? I know that VLC is good at creating a region free DVD player (if that makes any sense) so is good at getting past annoying inconveniences.

bledd · 24 Jul 2008 at 20:45

anydvd is just a decryption driver that runs in the background, you then use whatever player/ripper you want as if it was a non encrypted disc

it decrypts on the fly with truly un-noticable cpu usage

awesome software

there's a 30 day trial for it too