Winamp & Shoutcast Forums - Problems playing audio cd's

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Using Winamp 2.76, it is impossible for me to play audio cd's. The weird thing is, it will play 1 song, and after that, it will lock up. I have now uninstalled Winamp and tried playing audio cd's with both WMP7.1 and the standard CD Player that comes with Windows (I had to uninstall Winamp first, because even though I had set it to not associate itself with audio cd's, it'd still attempt to play them when I inserted an audio cd). Both, amazingly, work just fine. So clearly, this is a Winamp problem.

Anyone have any idea what can be done to fix this? Winamp is my favorite music player and I'd hate to have to ditch it because of this stupid error.

Here are my system specs:

PIII 1GHz
256MB RAM
LiteOn DVD-ROM LTD122
Philips USB Audio System

Running Windows 2000 SP-2.

Also, with the very same computer, but with Windows ME installed, I did not have this problem.

Try replacing IN_CDDA.DLL with the CDReader plugin. Be sure to read its readme document.

There have been a lot of Win2K issues lately - especially with the dafault CD plugin. Most of the time it causes CD's to skip and give poor playback. Take Neo's advice and install the CD Reader plugin. However, disable the default plugin forst by renaming it to in_cdda.dll.old or something similar.

Thanks guys, that did the trick. It doesn't seem to work well with te CDDB database though - all I get to see now is "Track 1", "Track 2", and so forth... despite what the CDReader website says about it, it doesn't seem to work at all for me. Oh well, you can't have everything, I guess.

CDReader stores the cdb info in the same file as Windows CD Player
(CDPlayer.ini in your Windows dir)

I think you also need to disable the default CD plugin's cdb file as well
(rename: in_cdda.cdb to in_cdda.cdb.off)

Then, open Winamp;
Goto: Prefs -> Input -> CDReader -> config -> cddb tab
Checkmark both: "Use CDDB" & "Use Local CDDB"

This makes it so you only have to download the info once, and from then on CDReader recalls the data from CDPlayer.ini each time you play the relevant CD.