Default audio cd drive

[Spastic Computer Guru 0]

I want to change which drive is my default audio drive in Win 2K. In win98 it is in multimedia, on the cd music tab. Now either I am just blind or dumb, or it is somewhere else in 2K. Any one know where it is?

[badboy 0]

On the Windows 2000 default cd player is the options button hit that then the preferance button and then advanced audio you can make and change your default drive from there.

[Spastic Computer Guru 0]

Where is the options button located?

[badboy 0]

It's on the bottom left hand corner above the internet button of the windows default cd player it's self, you can't miss it !

[DocSilly 0]

OK, this works when you want to listen to an Audio CD from a specific drive ... but it doesn't seem to work like the "select default Audio CD drive" in the Win9x multimedia setting ...

 

Because games seem to ignore whatever I select in the CD-Player, it seems that those options have not much to do with the "default audio cd drive" settings, more like an option to select a different volume setting/audio mixer for different CD drives ...

 

The only way to get CD-audio in games was to connect the audio cable back to my first CD drive.

 

hmmm, this gives me another idea ... maybe when I just change the driveletters of the drives ... ?

I'll try that later today since I'm at work right now.

 

I don't want to use my CDROM for audio CD's since it makes an audible hiss while accessing CDROM's (like installing stuff). I don't have this prob on my CD-R.

[DocSilly 0]

Here the follow up:

 

Yes, my idea has proven correct.

Win2000 defaults the audio CD player to the CD drive with the lowest driveletter.

 

Now I can use my CD-R again as my default audio CD player (driveletter lower then CDROM).

[Spastic Computer Guru 0]

How did you swap drive letters w/ out swapping the physical drives?