What Are My Radio And Cd Changer Options?

Posted by Joe Murphy on February 5, 2012 Leave a comment (0) Go to comments

Are you having disturb playing that new audio CD you just bought? You pop it in the tray and it does utterly nothing? You wait for a while, then open My Computer or Windows Explorer, and browse through the CD attempting to figure out which file to select so that you may see the contents of the CD or to play whatsoever is on the CD?

There are few things more discouraging and hindering than having a CD that would not play automatically. If this has happened to you often and you want to know how to make CDs run mechanically one they are inserted into the CD drive, then read on.

When you have a CD drive that will not autorun or autoplay, there are a heap of steps you need to take to make sure that your CDs start out playing mechanically after insertion. The steps to be taken depend on the Operating System that is loaded into your computer and on the type of CD. Your CD may incorporate data or audio tracks.

Let us see how to make a CD drive autorun on a PC running the Windows Operating System.

For a Windows XP installation, configuring a CD drive for autorun is very simple – open My Computer or Windows Explorer. Right click on the CD drive and select properties. In the window that pops up, select the Autoplay tab. You will see a drop down box listing assorted file types commonly found on CDs like music CD, mixed content, video files etc. Choose the type of file nearest to your requisite and select the option titled Select an action to perform. In the choices given below, choose Play from the list. Press OK. This must enable autorun for any CD with the content specified.

If you are not comfortable with the idea of blanket permissions, you may choose the option Prompt me each time to choose an action rather of the one noted above. In this case, Windows mechanically asks you for your choice whenever you insert a CD.