[jeanrosenfeld]

I thought it might be useful to draw attention to a problem (and solution) I had when trying to burn an audio CD in WMP 11, as it relates to drag to disc.

I have EMC 9 installed,including drag to disc. However the latter is set not to load on startup as I never use it.
I was having a problem that I could not get WMP 11 to burn an audio disc. It did not recognise that a blank disc had been inserted.
One step in the troubleshooting involved seeing whether I could copy files onto the blank disc using Windows Explorer. I could, but to my surprise the files were being written straight to disc, instead of the expected native XP method, where you create the list of files, then right click to burn them to the CD.
I then right clicked on the DVD RW drive and saw an entry in the context menu that I hadn't noticed brefore: 'disable drag to disc for this drive..' I clicked on that, clicked yes on the warning message. Now in Windows Explorer the native 2 step XP method of burning to CD was restored and WMP 11 burn worked fine.

I was surprised that drag to disc had highjacked the drive even though it was set not to load on startup.

Also, the context menu on the drive now includes the item' Enable drag to disc for this drive..', so the process is reversible if need be.

[Beerman]

jeanrosenfeld, on Nov 8 2006, 04:44 PM, said:

I thought it might be useful to draw attention to a problem (and solution) I had when trying to burn an audio CD in WMP 11, as it relates to drag to disc.

I have EMC 9 installed,including drag to disc. However the latter is set not to load on startup as I never use it.
I was having a problem that I could not get WMP 11 to burn an audio disc. It did not recognise that a blank disc had been inserted.
One step in the troubleshooting involved seeing whether I could copy files onto the blank disc using Windows Explorer. I could, but to my surprise the files were being written straight to disc, instead of the expected native XP method, where you create the list of files, then right click to burn them to the CD.
I then right clicked on the DVD RW drive and saw an entry in the context menu that I hadn't noticed brefore: 'disable drag to disc for this drive..' I clicked on that, clicked yes on the warning message. Now in Windows Explorer the native 2 step XP method of burning to CD was restored and WMP 11 burn worked fine.

I was surprised that drag to disc had highjacked the drive even though it was set not to load on startup.

Also, the context menu on the drive now includes the item' Enable drag to disc for this drive..', so the process is reversible if need be.

I have removed Drag to Disc which might explain why I've not had problem one with WMP11 though I can't see what's so great about it (or 9 and 10 for that matter......Winamp rules).