WinAmp weirdness...
Jun. 27th, 2005 01:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senoritafishI have a Neil Finn CD (Try Whistling This) that I occasionally like to listen to in my computer at work. One annoyance with this CD is every time you put it in, it wants to install an ancient version of Earthlink. But that's fairly minor, and easily opted out of.
The big annoyance is I like to use WinAmp to listen to music, and it cannot find the tracks on this CD. (normally, I would just use Windows Media Player, as it has no problem finding them, but somethings haywire with it on this computer). Even if I look in Explorer, they don't show up.
The only way I can get this to play in WinAmp is if I put in another CD first (with the same or greater number of tracks), and then change the disks after it starts playing. WinAmp will then recognize the tracks, one at a time as they're played, titles and everything.
Weird. Was this some early form of copy-protection Sony was trying out? This album came out in 1998, and I know some CDs have come out recently that will not play in computers at all. If it is, it only works on this one media player.
'Spose I should post this in WinAmp's forums...
The big annoyance is I like to use WinAmp to listen to music, and it cannot find the tracks on this CD. (normally, I would just use Windows Media Player, as it has no problem finding them, but somethings haywire with it on this computer). Even if I look in Explorer, they don't show up.
The only way I can get this to play in WinAmp is if I put in another CD first (with the same or greater number of tracks), and then change the disks after it starts playing. WinAmp will then recognize the tracks, one at a time as they're played, titles and everything.
Weird. Was this some early form of copy-protection Sony was trying out? This album came out in 1998, and I know some CDs have come out recently that will not play in computers at all. If it is, it only works on this one media player.
'Spose I should post this in WinAmp's forums...
