Win 8.1 And This One Audio CD
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The wife recently bought the Meghan Trainor CD (I know, that's the first problem). When she tried to play it in her laptop, it wouldn't play, the drive wasn't even showing in Media Player, nor could she see the tracks using Windows Explorer. She has played many other CDs in this same laptop with no issues. I then tried to play the new CD on my Windows 7 PC and it played fine there. I've already checked the drivers and everything is up to date, according to Asus anyway. And I've spent a considerable amount of time searching the internet to no avail. Does anyone have any ideas as to why what appears to be a normally formatted audio CD will not play on Win 8.1 while many others play just fine. P.S. I've also sent an email to Asus, but I'm not holding my breath.
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The wife recently bought the Meghan Trainor CD (I know, that's the first problem). When she tried to play it in her laptop, it wouldn't play, the drive wasn't even showing in Media Player, nor could she see the tracks using Windows Explorer. She has played many other CDs in this same laptop with no issues. I then tried to play the new CD on my Windows 7 PC and it played fine there. I've already checked the drivers and everything is up to date, according to Asus anyway. And I've spent a considerable amount of time searching the internet to no avail. Does anyone have any ideas as to why what appears to be a normally formatted audio CD will not play on Win 8.1 while many others play just fine. P.S. I've also sent an email to Asus, but I'm not holding my breath.
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The wife recently bought the Meghan Trainor CD (I know, that's the first problem). When she tried to play it in her laptop, it wouldn't play, the drive wasn't even showing in Media Player, nor could she see the tracks using Windows Explorer. She has played many other CDs in this same laptop with no issues. I then tried to play the new CD on my Windows 7 PC and it played fine there. I've already checked the drivers and everything is up to date, according to Asus anyway. And I've spent a considerable amount of time searching the internet to no avail. Does anyone have any ideas as to why what appears to be a normally formatted audio CD will not play on Win 8.1 while many others play just fine. P.S. I've also sent an email to Asus, but I'm not holding my breath.
I had a similar problem with the new Pink Floyd CD I bought it and it wouldn't play on my machine but would on my son's. Mines an older LG but never had a problem with any CD playing on it.
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The wife recently bought the Meghan Trainor CD (I know, that's the first problem). When she tried to play it in her laptop, it wouldn't play, the drive wasn't even showing in Media Player, nor could she see the tracks using Windows Explorer. She has played many other CDs in this same laptop with no issues. I then tried to play the new CD on my Windows 7 PC and it played fine there. I've already checked the drivers and everything is up to date, according to Asus anyway. And I've spent a considerable amount of time searching the internet to no avail. Does anyone have any ideas as to why what appears to be a normally formatted audio CD will not play on Win 8.1 while many others play just fine. P.S. I've also sent an email to Asus, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Silly question I know - but you are sure it's a CD not a DVD? I don't think 8.1 plays DVDs out of the box - don't you need 3rd party software?
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The wife recently bought the Meghan Trainor CD (I know, that's the first problem). When she tried to play it in her laptop, it wouldn't play, the drive wasn't even showing in Media Player, nor could she see the tracks using Windows Explorer. She has played many other CDs in this same laptop with no issues. I then tried to play the new CD on my Windows 7 PC and it played fine there. I've already checked the drivers and everything is up to date, according to Asus anyway. And I've spent a considerable amount of time searching the internet to no avail. Does anyone have any ideas as to why what appears to be a normally formatted audio CD will not play on Win 8.1 while many others play just fine. P.S. I've also sent an email to Asus, but I'm not holding my breath.
SteveJD wrote:
Does anyone have any ideas as to why what appears to be a normally
The usual cause in these cases is demonic infestation caused by the ripeness of your expectation that there is a rational answer, which attracts the evil entities like rotting meat attracts horse-flies. The same demons that also mis-led you into posting this question in this forum, rather than on the "Joan Murt Memorial Software and Hardware Weirdness" Forum. cheers, Bill p.s. It's generally a waste-of-time to try and figure out which flavour of demonic entities caused the problem, whether mazzakim, rakshasa, ifrit, etc. As written a few thousand years ago concerning demonic beings: "If the eye could see them no one could endure them. They surround one on all sides. They are more numerous than humans, each person has a thousand on his left and ten thousand on his right." (source: Babylonian Talmud)
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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Silly question I know - but you are sure it's a CD not a DVD? I don't think 8.1 plays DVDs out of the box - don't you need 3rd party software?
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SteveJD wrote:
Does anyone have any ideas as to why what appears to be a normally
The usual cause in these cases is demonic infestation caused by the ripeness of your expectation that there is a rational answer, which attracts the evil entities like rotting meat attracts horse-flies. The same demons that also mis-led you into posting this question in this forum, rather than on the "Joan Murt Memorial Software and Hardware Weirdness" Forum. cheers, Bill p.s. It's generally a waste-of-time to try and figure out which flavour of demonic entities caused the problem, whether mazzakim, rakshasa, ifrit, etc. As written a few thousand years ago concerning demonic beings: "If the eye could see them no one could endure them. They surround one on all sides. They are more numerous than humans, each person has a thousand on his left and ten thousand on his right." (source: Babylonian Talmud)
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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It could be either the DRM or the Encoding or security permissions to do with the DRM. Running a process monitor trace on both system might help narrow down what it is. Windows 8.x has some strange things that happen.
