MCI CD Audio Mount and Eject?

[Bryan Anslow]

Hi, I have an MCI application that reads/catalogs audio CD's using the CDDB Interface. There are two things I would like to get it to do that it currently does not; 1) Recognise that a CD has been loaded into the drive, so that I do not need to have a menu item to add a new CD. 2) Eject the drive after the information has been cataloged. I know that for 2) there are a couple of KB Articles, Q165721 and Q168180, but I would like a simpler, more universal method, if possible. Many Thanks in advance for any info. Bryan Anslow.

[Tomasz Sowinski]

Ejecting with MCI is easy. Assuming that you know the drive letter, send the following strings: "open f: type cdaudio alias cdx0" "set cdx0 door open" cdx0 is just a sample alias. Any identifier should work. Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com

[Bryan Anslow]

Thanks Tomasz, I use mciSendCommand() everywhere in this prog, so I found this worked; mciSendCommand(_mciDevice, // Eject the CD MCI_SET, MCI_SET_DOOR_OPEN, (DWORD)(LPVOID)&mciSet); also, for finding out when a CD is inserted, I just added a line to my mainframe module (it's an MFC App)like; ON_WM_DEVICECHANGE() and the OnDeviceChange() function can find which device etc., by examining the passed parm, Bryan.