[Ham-Computers] Where Is The Audio?

[Philip (KO6BB)]

Hi Duane,
Sorry about the delay.  Been busy working on my audio files (Old Time 
Radio, Music etc).  I only have slightly over 1TB of audio "stuff" plus 
a couple hundred GB of old movies, Cartoons etc.

Anyway, the Windows media player will play audio CD's just fine.  If 
auto-start has been disabled, I don't recall how to reinstate it in XP 
(been using Win 7 since it came out).  But to manually play an audio CD, 
after inserting the CD, open the "My Computer" icon on your desktop, 
then click on your CD drive.  At that point it should either start to 
play the audio tracks, or display a list of the tracks.  If the latter, 
click on the tracks you want to play, or just click on the "Play all" 
selection at the top of the open folder.

I noticed that in an earlier post somebody mentioned that to play audio 
CD's through the computer, you needed to have a cable connect the CD 
drive to the sound card.  This is 'NOT' true.  This machine has a LDG 
multi-layer DVD burner and a CD reader in addition to an external 
Multi-layer DVD burner.  None are connected directly to the sound card 
via cables (actually to either sound card as this computer has two sound 
cards), yet all three will play audio CD's through the sound cards just 
fine.  This computer (3.4GHz Intel dual core) is set up especially for 
audio work, serves as my stereo system as well as "TV" to watch ole movies.

The sound system is a 150 Watt Fender Stereo PA system which also drives 
a powered sub-woofer.

Hope you get it working just fine.

73 de Phil,  KO6BB
http://www.qsl.net/ko6bb/   (Web Page)
http://ko6bb1.multiply.com/ (My OTR Blog)
http://cbsmysterytheater.multiply.com/ (My CBS
Radio Mystery Theater Blog)

RADIOS:
Yaesu FT-2000 Xceiver for "hamming" and LF Beacons.
National NC-183 16 Tube Receiver (circa 1949)
Zenith "American" Royal-7000 Transoceanic. (circa 1970)
Realistic DX-380 Digital Portable.

Central California


On 5/9/2011 5:19 PM, Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I had never used this Compaq 3 GHZ system for music, but I always assumed it
> worked. Wrong!
>
> This system is running under Windows XP Home Edition. It has audio output,
> as I am sending the output from the screen reading software to an external
> powered speaker.
>
> If I put a music CD in the read/write CD/DVD drive. Nothing happens. OK, so
> someone somewhere has disabled the automatic play feature. Anybody know
> where I go in Windows XP HE to turn it back on?
>
> Now it seems to me that the software this system came with should include
> some program that would allow me to play a CD. But all I find are Media
> Player and Media Player Classic.
>
> Did this Windows OS come without software to play audio? If so, any
> suggestions as to what I might add to correct this dilema?
>
> For what it is worth, it does have Nero 6.0, Sound Recorder, Roxio (sp) CD
> Creator, andPowerdvd.exe
>
> I am open to suggestions gentlemen!
>
> In case you are wondering, the 2.8 GHZ system is my audio/video computer!
>
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
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