CD music won't play from soundcard...WHY?

[debrell]

Winamp 2.62 decided to go weird on me one day and stopped playing CD music through the soundcard OUT. Everything was fine before... It still plays CD sound throught the jack connection in the front of the CD Drive. Tried the CDReader Plug-in, but to no avail.

Any ideas?

[Birdf]

My winamp v2.62 has the same problem, I don't know how to solve the problem either.

Who can help me?

[Aegir]

There is a wire that connects from the back of your cd player to either your motherboard or directly to your sound card. This is how you get sound from the cd player to your system. That may have come loose. If that happened you would only be getting sound from the line out jack in the front of cd player and not from the sound card.

[Birdf]

That wire can't come loose, because I can play my CDs by using the CDPlayer software in Windows98 or some other softwares. Only cannot my winamp 2.62 play my CDs.

Any suggestions?

[Olivier]

Did you tried to remove in_cdreader.dll plug-in and replace with in_cdda.dll ?

[mrsmitty]

"Did you tried to remove in_cdreader.dll plug-in and replace with in_cdda.dll"

Where is this found?
I am having the same problem

[Olivier]

"Did you tried to remove in_cdreader.dll plug-in and replace with in_cdda.dll"

You can find it in the ".../winamp/plugins" directory.

[dinorulz]

I've been having the same problem. Instead of in_cdda.dll, I have in_cdda.cdb file. Where can I get the in_cdda.dll file?

[Tom]

dinorulz,
I read your message over at the Ask Steve forum so I am aware of you problem. There are most likely two different ways to fix your problem:
The first and simplest (you probably won't like this option):
Open Winamp
Press Ctrl + P
Click on "Input"
Double Click "Nullsoft CD/LineIn ..."
Remove the check next to "Sample Input from soundcard"
Click Ok then Close
This usually fixes the problem you have described, but this will not allow for visuals (which you wanted) to work.

The second method is to go get the CD Reader plugin. What this does is transfers the file off the CD rather than just pass the music on to your soundcard. Because it uses this new method to play your CD-ROM must support DAE (Digital Audio Extraction) in order for it to play correctly. Read the second message in this thread ( http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000070.html )it will tell you how to set it up for CDDB and what to do if it doesn't work for you, but go here to get the CD Reader plugin (this is the authors page he has a newer version than what is offered on winamp.com, it will allow visuals, the equilizer and the volume control in Winamp to work with CD's): http://www.url*****~copah/CDReader.htm

Tom
http://players.shoutclub.net

[diggitydirge]

What kind of sound card do you have?? Do you have a digital and/or analog hook up on your spekers??

If you have your set of speakers running to the sound card through the digital out put, try switching the connection to the analog output and the CD's will work. You also won't lose sound quality for the any of the files.

I can't speak exactly to the technical reason behind it, but some sound cards (Soundblaster Live included)won't transmit the CD audio through it's digital output. That's why you can hear everything, (.wavs, .mp3's, and even CD's out of the Windows CD Player)except for CD's thorugh Winamp.

Give it a try. I had this problem for days and received 0 help from any tech support team on it.

[diggitydirge]

Correction to Last article...You will lose sound quality on most of your strictly digital audio files.

Does anyone know of a way to configure Winamp, or get a plug-in to, configure your sound card to encode the signal as digital when it sends to the speaker system?? Currently it will only work if I choose the analog out put.

I have a Sounblaster 32 soud card and Boston Accoustic speakers. My winamp will play evrything except CD's at the digital setting. To get it to play CD's, I must switch the sound card to speaker connection from a digital connection to an analog connection.

[Tom]

You are correct that you will lose some sound quality, but I don't think it will be that much, hardly noticable if even that. I have a SB Live! and a set of FPS2000's connected digitally and it works flawlessly with Winamp. The only thing I can suggest to you (and this is just a guess) is to try to hook up your CD-ROM to sound card digitally (this of course will only help if you are using the standard Winamp plugin if you are using the CD Reader than it won't matter). The digital connector is not flat like the analog connector it is kind of like a rectangle with a smaller rectangle on top of it (I don't know how else to describe it). This is assuming that your soundcard can even accept a digital connection from the CD-ROM. What happens if you use the CD-Reader plugin, I think it should work if you use that?

Tom
http://players.shoutclub.net

[debrell]

Here's the latest on the Winamp case: As I replaced incdda with in_CDReader.dll, at first it worked fine, but now I get a message that tells me that my system does not support WIN32 Driver Calls. What? I am going crazy.