Windows Media Player 9 & AutoPlay

[PinkPanther 0]

Hello all,

 

Does anyone know a registry hack to prevent Media Player 9 from AutoPlaying a Music CD when inserted?

 

Let me clarify some details and the specific scenario.

 

Media Player has a setting that allows you to automatically rip a music cd when you insert it; I really like this feature because it makes it easy to rip large amounts of music by simply swapping the cds from the drive, no other action is required.

 

However, Media Player also immediately starts playing the music cd, which I don't want it to do. Turning off AutoPlay for the CD Drive doe NOT turn off this behavior in Media Player (there is even a small sentence at the end of the descrition in Microsoft's Group Policy's editor under AutoPlay that says "Note: this setting does not affect autoplay of music cds")

 

The only way I have discovered that prevents Media Player from auto playing the cd under the above scenario is if a different program, ie WinAmp, is playing music, thus using the sound card resources.

 

Anyway, thanks for any ideas on how to kill this setting.

[trilliansucks 0]

have you tried disabling autoplay simple from the device manager?

 

FYI: WMP9 has DRM. hope you don't plan on sharing your music.

[cloink 0]

I would REALLY appreciate it if anyone has found out how to do this, I am ready to shoot Bill Gates and all his minions.

 

Has anyone tried Trilliansucks' suggestion? Does it work, if so, what does he/she mean?

 

By the way, if you have WMP already open and have something else already playing/paused (eg. a playlist), that's the only way I've found of stopping it taking over your CD player.

 

Cheers.

[cloink 0]

Appreciated - lots of nags I have about Windows may be fixed by that little tool (except it's screwed up my icons, I'm hoping that'll correct itself when I reboot) - but I didn't see any options for WMP and I've been through every setting in turn. I chose the non-Itanium download seeings as I don't what "Itanium" is (though it smacks of 64-bit). Maybe I should have chosen the Itanium-version..?

 

Incidentally, good as the tool is, the installer-exe gives you no clue whatsoever where it's put the actual exe!

 

Seems like a registry-interface tool - do you have any suggestions on a Registry-cleaning tool? - which frankly should be provided by Windows anyway.

 

Thanks again.

 

Incidentally - I know this isn't the forum - but the reason MS software (& the o/s) bugs me so SO much is because it assumes it knows what you want to do. I liked computers when they did what YOU told THEM to do and not the other way round. Bring back 286's!

[ross_aveling 0]

Originally posted by Alec§taar:

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(The oldest CPU I could realistically put up with would be a 486 Dx/4 133mhz @ THE MOST!)

 

I don't know... I have an ancient XT propping open my office door.

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Originally posted by Alec§taar:

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It'll crank off that "autoplay" upon auto-insert of either DATA cd's (like installers automatically running, OR games automatically starting etc.) & MUSIC cd's too (which will stop WMP from starting up by default/automatically upon insertion of CD's full of tunes).

 

AutoPlay's already switched off.

Specifically, when WMP is open and not playing anything (stopped, not paused), even if you switch off auto-play on the drive, WMP *still* auto-plays an inserted music-CD. Seemingly it's not Windows that's kicking in auto-play, it's the WMP-app - that's what I'm trying to stop. With WMP not open, music-CD's don't auto-play.

 

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Originally posted by Alec§taar:

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Have you tried WMP 10?

 

I only upgraded to this verion of WMP recently! - thru Win update. But yes, it's V9 not 10. And given that V9 corrected a bug in its predecessor that meant it usually loaded the filename as the song title, but then the new version went and updated all my music files DIRECTLY and applyed what the old version had stored as the song-title in its own db into the song-title held in the completely separate music-file, I'm loath to upgrade again just at the moment.

 

See why I don't like BG?!?!