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May 30, 2003, 10:15pm

Ok I know I not going to get a helpful answer here cant find one on Media
Players website anywhere and cant find a solution because it involves to
many possabilities.
My problem is using Windows Media Player 9 series to play CDs, every time i
insert a Music CD-ROM I get an error this is the error (WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER
ENCOUNTERED AN ERROR WHEN READING THE CD-ROM DRIVE IN DIGITAL MODE. CLICK OK
TO SWITCH TO ANALOG MODE, CLICK CANCEL TO RETRY PLAYING IN DIGITAL MODE.)
NO matter what I do the player shuts down it never switches to analog mode
and i get the following error out of the MORE INFO tab
0xC00D11F8: Cannot play the CD using digital playback
Windows Media Player could not play the CD using digital playback. The
Player has automatically switched the CD-ROM drive to analog playback. To
switch back to digital CD playback, use the Devices tab.

To switch to digital CD playback

On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Devices tab.
Double-click the CD-ROM drive, and then in the Playback area, click Digital.
Error ID = 0xC00D11F8, Condition ID = 0x00000000

OK I try that and I find the enable digital playback is greyed out and not
checkable, but yet my Memorex 48X is digital capable and even has a
digital cable connected to the mother board.
My Bios is new and was recently upgraded, aside from that in the past I was
able to play CDROMs into either windows media player or Real Player, Now I
can't
MS Windows ME (4.90. build 3000)
DirectX 8.1 (4.08.01.0881)
Video card: ATI Radeon 7000 PCI
Video Memory 64 Mb DDR
Driver: ATIDRAG.DRV
Version: 4.13.01.9009
Sound card: Creative SBLive!
Driver: Emu10k1.VxD 4.06.00.0711
Total system memory:SDram PC-100 256 Mb
BIOS date: 2002
Any suggeations would be appreciated as im stumped!

May 30, 2003, 10:58pm

Correction the Digital cable is connected to my soundcards digital connecter
(Not the motherboard) That was a typo.
Problem still not solved.
:(

May 30, 2003, 11:08pm

easy solution... dont use windows media player 9... its absolutly horid
sound quality wise, although some of the features (slow down / speed up) are
brill. Go for 8

- Mark

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May 30, 2003, 11:54pm

Is there a problem with the software? If so I will uninstall it and go for
an older version, I know windows media player 9 is for windows XP, but it
was offered to me as an Windows ME update.
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May 31, 2003, 12:47am

There are 2 versions of version 9.. 9x version and XP version.

Both are crap, low sound quallity, taking far too much graphics and CPU
time, spyware on DVDs and such. It is easily the worst media player they
have come out with to date.

- Mark

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May 31, 2003, 1:14am

Crappy is right there's no uninstall option in add or remove programs,
either.
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May 31, 2003, 1:27am

Correct, its a forced perminant upgrade... although you can severly damage
it enough with a hex editor to put most of it out of commision.

- Mark

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Jun 5, 2003, 5:47pm

Yep, thats MS for ya.
Just use WinAmp, its much better. Much, much better.

-CMM

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