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Jun 22, 2003, 8:09am

OK agian I'm asking for any help at all. Problem can not copy any music
cdrom tracks to my hard drive under any player (examples realone player,
windows media player) I have tried everything its just not happening, its as
if i have a copy protection program in my system, i dont care what format it
ends up as wav, mp3 anything, the minute i click the copy cd to hard drive i
get all kinds of errors some saying crap about cant play in digital
switching to analog click OK to play analog, again another error, i have
tried rippers no go error your cdrom is locked by another program. WHICH
PROGRAM!?!?!?!
At one time i used realjukebox and it copied cd's fine when it played them,
now theres no realjukebox, and i no longer have it on my PC, my CDrom does
have a digital output cable hooked up to my sound blaster live sound card, i
have windows ME with windows media player 9 and subscrition version of
realone player. Been in every program related to CD audio i can find to find
what one has my cdrom locked. Went to windows configuration untility and
clicked CDROM it will not let me select DIGITAL (the box is greyed out) Been
to windows media player 9's website looking for codecs theres nothing that
it does not already have. I have been through and through soundblaster live
and tried everything in its settings for digital. I have tried to find a way
to tell windows media player 9 to copy the tracks as .wav files and do not
attemp to play digital, cant find that anywhere within the program. point is
i can no longer copy music cds to my hard drive any more, like as if some
copy right protection scheme has blocked me from doing it and locked my
player, but for the life of me i can not find what program did it. i have
freeRIP ripper, forget it it starts and says i have no cdrom attached to my
system and/or that the device is locked by another program. My cdrom a
memorex 48X cdrom, it has both the IDE and digital cables hooked up.
Anyone have a clue as to whats going on, or know of a good forum i can write
to for advice? forget media players newsgroup, all i see there is questions
but no answers.
MrBruce

Jun 22, 2003, 8:34am

erm... windows loads up a CD rewriter of its own, into its shell the second
you put a writable CD in and it detects it.... I forget what the EXE is...
anyway find it, close it down, then use nero.

- Mark

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Jun 22, 2003, 12:56pm

[View Quote] Well I have adaptecs's Easy CD Creater 4 Deluxe and a ACER CDRW 8x4x32 for
burning CDs and it works fine. But my problem is related to my CDROM and
attempting to save a music CD to a folder on my hard drive. As soon as I
through a music CDROM in my player windows media player 9 starts up and
throws an errors at me saying it can not read the cd in digital mode and
gives two options (click CANCEL to retry digital mode) or (click OK to
switch the player to analog) Either way it pops another error saying the
same thing with a DETAILS button, I click that and it tells me to go to the
confguration untility and select the CDROM drive click properties and
uncheck DIGITAL play-back. I go there and guess what, not only is is
unchecked, but it's greyed out as well, so according to that, its not set up
to play cd music in digital mode. I have a subscription version of realone
player, i try using that and it too throws errors at me saying it can not
copy the CD to my hard drive and offers to look for a solution from its
website, it can show all the tracks and even show info on the group the
music is recorded by, but says it cnt copy the tracks.
My biggest headaches here are there can be a large number of reasons for
these failures, system BIOS, Motherboard chipsets, OS, software, drivers and
finally the hardware. My FIC motherboard has a newer BIOS version, because I
flashed it not long ago, my chipset software is the latest i can find from
V/A and my CDROM really does not require anything other than mscdx because
its just a generic CDROM made by Memorex.
Ive had this motherboard a while now, and was able to use realjukebox to
copy the tracks from a music CD to my hard drive, I had to reformat my hard
drive a while back because of a problem DirectX 9.1 caused in my systems
video and I lost everything. I have recently tried looking for the program
from real neatworks and its no longer available.
I have thought of purchasing MUSICMATCH for 9.95 a month which claims it can
ripp CDROMs to MP3 or .wav ect, but I see no point in it if (like my
purchased verion of realone player) it's gonna throw errors at me that it
cant do this, because of this digital error or that the player is locked.
I really do not want to have to find a PC tech to figure out whats going on
here. But it seems to me if i put in a store bought copy of CD and click
save tracks to hard drive while playing it, it should do so, like it used
to. So Im here asking anyone who knows a solution to tell me or at lest
direct me to a good messageboard thats frequanted by many where I might find
a solution. By the way, lol, once you have windows media player 9 series
installed on your PC, theres no getting it off, I upgraded from windows ME's
default WMP8 and there's no getting rid of 9, believe me, i tried.
MrBruce

Jun 22, 2003, 2:50pm

[View Quote] Apparently you're trying to read a data cd like a music cd. Maybe.

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--Bowen--

Jun 22, 2003, 3:33pm

> Apparently you're trying to read a data cd like a music cd. Maybe.
>
> --
> --Bowen--

Yes, the Cds I'm talking about are regular Music CDs. Ok here's an example,
I am trying to copy Inner Circle's "Bad Boys" CD to the "My Music" folder
on my computer, or at least a couple of tracks from it. In the past
realjukebox from Real networks (the makers of Realplayer 8) actually copied
the entire CD to my computer so i could play the songs again later without
the use of the CD. Now it seems i can no longer do this. I can not remember
if i had Win 98 SE at that time, because its been a while since i tried
saving music to my hard drive.
But to no avail, I can not even play a Music CD with Windows Media Player 9
series and RealOne Player will play it but refuses to save the tracks to my
computer in any format, .wav .midi or MP3.
Btw, no I do not have a DVD on this system, just one CDROM and one CDRW.
MrBruce

Jun 22, 2003, 3:42pm

So what, are you trying to burn a CD or rip from a CD? If you're trying to
burn, try some new software (on 98 I had problems with Easy CD Creator 4, if
I installed it by putting the disc in the CD-ROM it wouldn't work, but if I
installed it from my CD-RW it would). If you're trying to rip, I'd say do
the three-finger salute (control alt delete) and then close down everything
except systray and explorer and the ripper software (or just open the ripper
after you do it), and then try.

And if you want to get your CD-ROM playing music with a digital connection,
you gotta open up the comp and make sure that you got a digital audio cable
(thin grey one with two wires instead of four) going from the CD-ROM to your
sound card. Some sound cards don't have a digital connector, though, but if
you have a SoundBlaster Live! or newer Creative card I'm sure you do.

Simple T is a great ripper (and its free too), but it's website is an
obscure little geocities page that I can't find, but I know someone who
knows the site so I'll just ask him. As to why you purchased RealOne, that
beats me (Real software flat-out sucks if you ask me)...and purchasing
MusicMatch wouldn't do ya any good. And for WMP9, glad you understand now
that no Microsoft products are uninstallable without reinstalling your OS :P

Thats all I can think up for now. Hope some of it helped.

-CMM

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Jun 22, 2003, 11:17pm

OK People I found out what i needed to know, i took time to throughly read
my EASY CD CREATER 4 DELUXE owners manual and found it is the program that
took control of my CDROM, but at the same time, I found out it has a ripper
all included which can extract CD Music formats to .WAV and even MP3. It
allowed me to save the tracks I needed right off the Music CD right onto my
hard drive.
That problem is solved, now I'm gonna go to windows media player 9.0 and
uncheck all its default settings related to playing music discs because it
stinks!
MrBruce.

Jun 22, 2003, 11:52pm

[View Quote] I think "copying" files within windows copies like a link to the file
(on music CD's). Not sure about that though.

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--Bowen--

Jun 30, 2003, 11:23am

Try this program:
http://download.com.com/3000-2140-10200275.html?tag=lst-0-1
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