1183 unstoppable bad CD play [6881]

[chrisjj]

If MM starts to play a CD and says Table of Contents of CD-ROM E: was not read successfully., it slowly proceeds to give the same error for every track on the CD with no way I can see of the user stopping it. Clicking X has that same effect as clicking OK.

EDIT(TC) Tracked at http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=6881

[rovingcowboy]

i've come across this before chris. it happens to me when i try and play a cdrom just to hear the songs to make sure i don't have them already in the computer.
but it only seems to happen on cdroms with extra blank space filling cda files and with extra content such as an embeded video player that is to play the extra video of some new song the artist has made.

i get around that by just taking it out. and then ripping another cdrom then putting that one back in and just rip it.
with out listening to it. then when the songs don't all rip. i go to the explorer and look and sure enough there is an video on it or a player, and a readme txt on the cdrom.

so that is telling me monkey is seeing all the files on the cdrom as an audio track.
i just take it out and forget the rest of the tracks.

how ever i have found that some of them also have one song messed up so it can't be ripped. just how that is done i have no idea but it is done on a few of the cdroms.


does that sound like it could be anything that is going on with your cdroms?

[chrisjj]

does that sound like it could be anything that is going on with your cdroms?

Thanks but no, because mine are regular CDs (audio) not CD-ROMs.

[rovingcowboy]

thats not making sense chris?

[Lowlander]

Audio CD's are music CD's you buy in the music store. CD-Roms are blank discs that the consumer burns him/herself. The consumer can either burn an Audio CD or Data CD. The difference is that Audio CD's are of higher quality than CD-Roms, especially taking in account the variety of consumer burning hardware/software.

So all Crissjj is implicating is that the CD's are of good quality and don't present any physical damage. Besides the point he's making is not about the ability to play the CD (although I assume that would be nice to), but about how MediaMonkey handles the error of Table of Contents not found. The obvious requirement for when this error occurs is that the user can terminate MediaMonkey reading the CD and thus not get repeated error message.


PS. I apologize, I can't confirm this behavior myself as I haven't seen the error itself before (count me lucky).

[chrisjj]

> Audio CD's are music CD's you buy in the music store. CD-Roms are blank discs that the consumer burns him/herself.

The audio CDs showing the problem here are burned by me, but are not CD-ROMs. They are TMK red-book (TAO-burned) audio CDs.

> Crissjj is implicating is that the CD's are of good quality and don't present any physical damage.

True.

> Besides the point he's making is not about the ability to play the CD (although I assume that would be nice to), but about how MediaMonkey handles the error of Table of Contents not found.

Absolutely. Thanks for the clarification.

[Lowlander]

Ok, I thought you meant store bought audio CD's.

Another question though is if MediaMonkey is the only application that can't read them or that your CD/DVDrom drive can't?

[chrisjj]

> if MediaMonkey is the only application that can't read them or that your CD/DVDrom drive can't?

Unknown - I no longer have access to these CDs.

[rovingcowboy]

here in texas and most every other place i been in to buy songs in brick and morter stores cd's and cdrom's mean the same thing, a compact disk either factory pressed or ones you can burn. that is why i was not getting what you said.

> Besides the point he's making is not about the ability to play the CD (although I assume that would be nice to), but about how MediaMonkey handles the error of Table of Contents not found.

Absolutely. Thanks for the clarification.

in that case my first reply stands the same as i did get that error and that is what happened with me at that time.