This is something that has irritated me for a long time. I have
cdplayer running, and I put in a new CD. It starts playing. Then, after the song has already started,
Windows Media Player pops up, takes over, and starts playing a random track on the CD. Even after I kill Windows Media Player, it manages to tell cdplayer to start playing another
random track. Thanks to
N-Wing, I figured out how to
stop the insanity. N-Wing suggested that this works on
Win9x... I'm using
Windows 2000, and it works...
Open the Registry (regedit.exe).
Expand HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
Find AudioCD.
Expand AudioCD\shell\play\command
There should be at least one key, hopefully two. Here's what I have:
(Default) REG_SZ "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" /device:AudioCD "%L"
MPlayer2.BAK REG_SZ %SystemRoot%\system32\cdplayer.exe /play %1
Just switch the two values around, and Windows Media Player will stop fucking around. If you never want to use Windows Media Player for CDs, you can delete the other key and just keep (Default). If you've only got one value, just enter into (Default) the path to cdplayer.exe or whatever other CD playing utility you have. I also had a problem with %SystemRoot% not being translated correctly. If you know the path to cdplayer.exe, just type it in explicitly.