Cannot play music on a CD

[Bill]

I am running MM version 4.1.0.1672. When I try to play music from my system's CD player, MM hangs and the system is very busy. If I eject the CD from the player, MM is no longer hung up and they system is not busy. I can play the music on this CD using Windows Media Player for XP with no problem. BTW, when I was using MM 3.x, I had no problem playing music from my CDs.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Guest]

Could WMP be trying to play it at same time?

[Ludek]

Have you tried suggestion here: http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/inde ... icleid=121 ?

Also, does this happen when you run MM as administrator?

And yes, Could WMP or another app be trying to play it at same time?

[Bill]

Have you tried suggestion here: http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/inde ... icleid=121 ?

Also, does this happen when you run MM as administrator?

And yes, Could WMP or another app be trying to play it at same time?

I'm not sure I understand "run MM as administrator". I always run my system in administration mode if that is what you are asking.
My BIOS IDE configuration allows allows for these on chip SATA types:
Native IDE
RAID IDE
AHCI
Legacy IDE.
Native IDE is selected for my IDE configuration.
Regarding WMP, I have the same problem when WMP is not installed on my system

[imagehopper]

Mediamonkey is trying to use the ram on the CD drive as system ram.

[nohitter151]

Have you tried suggestion here: http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/inde ... icleid=121 ?

Also, does this happen when you run MM as administrator?

And yes, Could WMP or another app be trying to play it at same time?

I'm not sure I understand "run MM as administrator".

Right click MM icon, Run as administrator

[Bill]

Mediamonkey is trying to use the ram on the CD drive as system ram.

If so, how do you stop it?

[Bill]

Right click MM icon, Run as administrator

Did same, made no difference.

[monkey hi fi]

Try increasing your page file and running your cleaning programs and defragmenting, those seem to be able to keep the ram free if that is the trouble, also try using maxmem from analog to see if it really is filled ram,
as for the ram on the CD drive you might need to increase the size of the L2 cache to stop that being used, only a few tweak programs will allow that adjustment. Only time I had what imagehopper said was when i tried to use a new 24 bit cd drive on an old standalone dummy terminal that didn't have an L2 cache. But that was back in 3.0 Days.

[Bill]

Try increasing your page file and running your cleaning programs and defragmenting, those seem to be able to keep the ram free if that is the trouble, also try using maxmem from analog to see if it really is filled ram,
as for the ram on the CD drive you might need to increase the size of the L2 cache to stop that being used, only a few tweak programs will allow that adjustment. Only time I had what imagehopper said was when i tried to use a new 24 bit cd drive on an old standalone dummy terminal that didn't have an L2 cache. But that was back in 3.0 Days.

I defragmented my drives and cleaned up my registers (I do this periodically and it was time). Also, I increased my cache. Unfortunately, nothing changed.

[Bill]

I think I have narrowed down the problem some. I was just able to rip a CD with out any problem. The tracks on the CD had no tags. The CDs that will not rip all have tags.
I'm now running 4.1.0.1688