I’ve done a lot of searching on the SDMB and the web in general… I’ve come up with some answers that look helpful, but nothing seems to work for me.
In short, I have installed iTunes on my machine running Windows 2000 and it recognizes a CD in the drive (correct number of tracks and run time etc.) but when I try to play the CD all that happens is that the speaker icon goes through each track briefly. (See the link for a a better description.)
I’ve tried various “fixes” especially those mentioned in the linked forum and have had no success. I have stopped short of reinstalling the drivers because I was able to make changes in the IDE settings and simply restart.
After work, and over the weekend I hope to get this working. Any suggestions. It looks to me, from my wanderings, that this is a VERY COMMON problem!
…maybe this should have gone in GQ… it’s not really a question in quest of a factual answer exactly… I found most of the other posts that were close to this subject in CS, but maybe that was just 'cuz a the iTunes part… :smack:
Are you trying to just paly the CD, or actually rip it so you can have the songs on your PC? Either way, there are several other programs out there (that are free, ind you) that can do these things. If worse comes to worse, you can rip the CD with another program into mp3 files, and then just add those to your iTunes library.
Is it possible that individual CD makers are putting some kind of code on their CDs that prevent you from doing this? Is it a new CD? Who published it? Also, disable all autorun features for your CD drive and try again.
At this point… I’m just trying to play it, although I did try to import it just to see if there was something obvious I was missing.
I got iTunes in order to put songs on the PC because the bundled microsoft player-- I know very little about it-- doesn’t allow “recording.”
I’ve tried two different CDs. (One was Metallica…) I doubt it is the CD though. When I searched for a solution online, I found a lot of people having very similar issues.
I’ll look at the drive again and check any autorun features. I’ve also switched the IDE on all the drives to PIO and did a restart-- which seemed to work for some others-- but nothing changed.
If all you want to do is play it, use windows media player. Works fine, and there doesn’t seem to be a need for fancy playlist editing, since you are just playing a CD in a drive.
But I imagine your long term goal might be to eventually rip it so it can be added to a nice permanent music collection, in which case I suggest getting a differetn ripping software and using that.