If Audio CDs don’t play, scan, or rip correctly try any of the following, after first verifying that you’re using the latest version of MediaMonkey.
- Some systems fail to rip/burn CDs unless logged in with Administrative rights.
To get around this:- Log in as a Windows User with Administrative rights OR;
- Run MediaMonkey in forced Admin Mode (Right Click on MM Icon -> Run as Administrator) OR;
- Configure Windows to allow non-Administrators to Burn Discs Verify that CD sound hasn’t been ‘muted’. Double-click the speaker icon in the system tray, and ensure that ‘mute’ is not checked off for both Wave/MP3 and CD Audio.
- f you have a CD/DVD drive that is connected as drive A or B then older versions of MediaMonkey won’t read it. To change this, you’ll need to edit the MediaMonkey.ini file and remove the letter A or B as appropriate from the following section:
[System]
IgnoreDriveLetters=AB - Some systems experience stuttering on CD playback when the CD/DVD-Rom Access is set to “PIO Mode Only” and not To “DMA if Available”. You can change this in Windows as follows:
- Right-click on My Computer > click Properties > select Hardware tab > click Device Manager
- Right click on the IDE channel to which the drive is connected and select the advanced tab
- If PIO is used, change the setting to ‘DMA if available’
- Reboot and check in Device Manager > IDE Channel > Advanced whether DMA is now being used. If it isn’t, click the Driver tab and then click ‘uninstall’.
- Reboot. On reboot, Windows will usually recognize the drive in DMA mode.
- Try MediaMonkey again If this fails to set your controller to DMA mode.
- If you have multiple drives, try disconnecting any external CD/DVD drives–on some systems, they may interfere with internal drives.
- Some systems will play CDs correctly, but will fail to rip them if the ‘Rip type’ is set to ‘Secure read’. Possible solutions/workarounds are to:
- Update the CD/DVD drive’s firmware to the most recent version
- Switch Rip Type from ‘Secure read’ to ‘Standard read’
- Use “CFF Explorer.exe” from http://www.ntcore.com/exsuite.php to edit the ‘File Header’ and DISABLE the checkbox “App can handle > 2GB address space” for MediaMonkey.exe and MediaMonkey (non-skinned).exe.
- If you still experience error messages, try deleting the in_cdreader.dll plug-in from the plugins directory (it will be there if you had installed MediaMonkey 2.x prior to installing more recent versions).
- Some systems fail to rip/burn CDs unless logged in with Administrative rights. You can right click where you launch MediaMonkey and select Run as Administrator.
- If you continue to have problems playing CDs and/or receive “Win32 Raw_Read” error messages, this may be occurring because you are not logged in as Administrator (Windows NT/2000/XP systems use SPTI CD drivers by default, and these can fail if the user is not logged in as Administrator) or because ASPI drivers have been corrupted. Try:
- Logging out and back in. This sometimes resolves the Administrator problem.
- If the above fails, install version 4.6 of Adaptec’s ASPI drivers.
More information & working aspi drivers may be found at: http://aspi.radified.com/aspi.htm
- On some systems, Virtual CD applications such as Alcohol or DriveImage can conflict with CD Playback and Ripping. If you have any such applications installed, try uninstalling them.
- If you continue to have problems playing CDs and/or receive “Win32 Raw_Read” error messages, this may be occurring because you are not logged in as Administrator (Windows NT/2000/XP systems use SPTI CD drivers by default, and these can fail if the user is not logged in as Administrator) or because ASPI drivers have been corrupted. Try: