Can someone help me please?
If I insert a CD and double click on the CD drive in File Explorer my machine immediately starts to play the CD using Windows Media Player - it does not go to the contents, i.e. the track list.
This happens despite the fact that VLC is set to play all audio and media files of all formats.
Anyone have any ideas why this is happening and how to overcome it so that VLC is preferred. Googling has drawn a blank.
TIA.
I can only guess that the playing of cds is set to media player.
Its a bit different to file playing, since the CD format is not strictly
a file format at all.
Brian
In Windows they are .cda files and Settings/Apps/Default/.cda lets you
set any required program (eg VLC) to play them.
On 30/06/2023 16:16, Brian Gaff wrote:
I can only guess that the playing of cds is set to media player.
Its a bit different to file playing, since the CD format is not
strictly a file format at all.
Brian
On Fri 30/06/2023 18:37, MikeS wrote:
In Windows they are .cda files and Settings/Apps/Default/.cda lets you
set any required program (eg VLC) to play them.
On 30/06/2023 16:16, Brian Gaff wrote:
I can only guess that the playing of cds is set to media player.
Its a bit different to file playing, since the CD format is not
strictly a file format at all.
Brian
Thanks both. As I said all audio files are associated in Windoze with
VLC and that <includes> cda files. There are no single file types that I know off that are music types that have Windows Media Player against them. What puzzles me is that if I open File Explorer so I can see all of my drives, and then I double click (as is the way) on the CD/DVD drive
letter I would expect it to open and list the drive (i.e. CD) contents - which I'm pretty sure it has done in the past. However when I double
click now Media Player immediately opens in the small window and starts playing, and there is no file list displayed. I just don't understand it
and Googling is of no help either.
On 30/06/2023 21:29, Woody wrote:
On Fri 30/06/2023 18:37, MikeS wrote:
In Windows they are .cda files and Settings/Apps/Default/.cda lets you
set any required program (eg VLC) to play them.
On 30/06/2023 16:16, Brian Gaff wrote:
I can only guess that the playing of cds is set to media player.
Its a bit different to file playing, since the CD format is not
strictly a file format at all.
Brian
Thanks both. As I said all audio files are associated in Windoze with VLC >> and that <includes> cda files. There are no single file types that I know >> off that are music types that have Windows Media Player against them.
What puzzles me is that if I open File Explorer so I can see all of my
drives, and then I double click (as is the way) on the CD/DVD drive
letter I would expect it to open and list the drive (i.e. CD) contents -
which I'm pretty sure it has done in the past. However when I double
click now Media Player immediately opens in the small window and starts
playing, and there is no file list displayed. I just don't understand it
and Googling is of no help either.
A CD is a removable media device. To view the contents in File Explorer
turn off Autoplay (in Settings, Bluetooth & devices).
On 30/06/2023 21:29, Woody wrote:
On Fri 30/06/2023 18:37, MikeS wrote:
In Windows they are .cda files and Settings/Apps/Default/.cda lets
you set any required program (eg VLC) to play them.
On 30/06/2023 16:16, Brian Gaff wrote:
I can only guess that the playing of cds is set to media player.
Its a bit different to file playing, since the CD format is not
strictly a file format at all.
Brian
Thanks both. As I said all audio files are associated in Windoze with
VLC and that <includes> cda files. There are no single file types that
I know off that are music types that have Windows Media Player against
them.
What puzzles me is that if I open File Explorer so I can see all of my
drives, and then I double click (as is the way) on the CD/DVD drive
letter I would expect it to open and list the drive (i.e. CD) contents
- which I'm pretty sure it has done in the past. However when I double
click now Media Player immediately opens in the small window and
starts playing, and there is no file list displayed. I just don't
understand it and Googling is of no help either.
A CD is a removable media device. To view the contents in File Explorer
turn off Autoplay (in Settings, Bluetooth & devices).
On Sat 01/07/2023 07:32, MikeS wrote:
On 30/06/2023 21:29, Woody wrote:
On Fri 30/06/2023 18:37, MikeS wrote:
In Windows they are .cda files and Settings/Apps/Default/.cda lets you >>>> set any required program (eg VLC) to play them.
On 30/06/2023 16:16, Brian Gaff wrote:
I can only guess that the playing of cds is set to media player.
Its a bit different to file playing, since the CD format is not
strictly a file format at all.
Brian
Thanks both. As I said all audio files are associated in Windoze with
VLC and that <includes> cda files. There are no single file types that I >>> know off that are music types that have Windows Media Player against
them.
What puzzles me is that if I open File Explorer so I can see all of my
drives, and then I double click (as is the way) on the CD/DVD drive
letter I would expect it to open and list the drive (i.e. CD) contents - >>> which I'm pretty sure it has done in the past. However when I double
click now Media Player immediately opens in the small window and starts >>> playing, and there is no file list displayed. I just don't understand it >>> and Googling is of no help either.
A CD is a removable media device. To view the contents in File Explorer
turn off Autoplay (in Settings, Bluetooth & devices).
Autoplay has never been turned on and is/was not now.
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