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XP redbook and digital audio?
Recently did Repair Reinstallation of XPpro SP2 on Dimension 8400; all XP updates reinstalled and no malware detected. Still a couple of things to resolve.
At every boot, the event log says redbook determined "This drive has not been shown to support digital audio playback." Never got this message before the Repair. Device Manager says Sony CD-RW and NEC DVD-RW working normally and both play audio CDs OK.
I uncheck box "enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM" in the Sounds/Audio control panel and that stops the event log message, and they still play audio CDs.
So what am I missing here?
Ron
At every boot, the event log says redbook determined "This drive has not been shown to support digital audio playback." Never got this message before the Repair. Device Manager says Sony CD-RW and NEC DVD-RW working normally and both play audio CDs OK.
I uncheck box "enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM" in the Sounds/Audio control panel and that stops the event log message, and they still play audio CDs.
So what am I missing here?
Ron
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Posted June 24th, 2005 00:00
Fireberd,
Both drives were factory installed by Dell in this 8400 with XPpro SP2 so I presume they were set up correctly for digital audio. The redbook error message only started appearing after I did XP Repair Reinstallation earlier this week. So something isn't detected/configured properly. But both drives play audio CDs ok, whether that box is checked or not right now. No media player is loading at startup.
XP Repair seems to have caused as many new issues as it resolved. And didn't completely fix some of the ones that made me run it in the first place. My JumpDrive is still misbehaving, but with different symptoms, my internal Zip drive doesn't eject the disk at shutdown now the way it used to...
I may have to bite the bullet, wipe the HD and start from scratch, just not today!
Ron
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Posted June 23rd, 2005 21:00
How do you have the drives connected? Windows XP machines use digital audio, for audio playback, not the older system that used a separate analog cable between the CD drive(s) and the sound card. The "enable digital audio" is the correct option for the drives in the Windows Device Manager.
The "redbook" is the standards for digital audio recording and playback. There could be some media player that you are loading at startup that is causing that.