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Thread ID: 24556	2002-09-13 11:15:00	"Enhanced" Audio CD	Mike (15)	Press F1

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79260	2002-09-13 11:15:00	I've got an "enhanced" audio CD (from about 1995), with video clips and stuff on it. However not since Windows 3.11 have I been able to access anything other than the audio tracks from the CD - all the enhanced bits are hidden somehow. The actual brand name for the enhanced features is "AudioVision CD" or "AVCD" with the caption "Plays in your stereo and in most CD Rom Drives" :| Also says on the disk "Not every computer will play the disk, but most Macs and PCs will and more computers are jumping on the AVCD bandwagon. That's why we call it the future of music - give it a try!" It seems to me like the "future of music" didn't last long... it must have been updated :) Anyway, any suggestions on how I might access the hidden video and other "features" from this CD without having to install DOS and copy the files over from there? I'm running XP so there's no DOS for me to use to try to access it :) I'm not sure if a 9x version of DOS will read it. Any takers? :D Mike.	Mike (15)
79261	2002-09-13 11:18:00	I have a few of those cd's... I would've thought putting your cd in, and letting XP auto-detect and run it would've been a go... Have you tried that? Sorry for asking the obvious... oh, btw, have you disabled autorun feature on your cd-rom?	Lohsing (219)
79262	2002-09-13 11:21:00	All Windows sees is 4x audio tracks, and that's it. When I put it in, WMP9 opens and starts playing the first track. Same thing has happened since Win95 :) No I haven't disabled autorun. Why do you ask? Mike.	Mike (15)
79263	2002-09-13 11:24:00	Hmmm... I thought you might have disabled autorun, and just gone through explorer so you might have only "seen" the audio tracks, and not the "extra" stuff... You have officially got me stumped... Seems wierd how it would work under something older than Win95, but not be compatible with anything above... How about closing WMP9, go to my computer, open to your cd-rom... right click and select "explore" ... do the additional files show that way?? Lo.	Lohsing (219)
79264	2002-09-13 11:29:00	How old is your CDROM drive? The CD Extra disks are multi-session and early drives (less than 8x) don't support it.	bmason (508)
79265	2002-09-13 11:32:00	No. It makes sense that it works in something older than 95, as the software is older than 95. They had problems with these "enhanced" so they changed how they made them, and so I'm guessing Windows is one of the things that had a problem with it. Mike.	Mike (15)
79266	2002-09-13 11:34:00	<sigh> the Disk I am using is older than every piece of hardware in my machine :) It is not a CD Extra disk, it is an old "Enhanced" Audio CD, which they changed how they made (I guess to the CD Extra type) because of problems they caused (I guess like this one). The disk is 1995, but I'm suspecting the software to make it was more likely 1993/94. The hardware I am using is a 2001 DVD drive. However I do know that my DVD drive will read the extra contents of the disk if I read it in native DOS mode, I just don't' have access to DOS from my machine. Mike.	Mike (15)
79267	2002-09-13 11:39:00	maybe you can get at it through linux :) Or you could set up a 9x system in VM Ware :D (you people must be sick of me pimping this)	-=JM=- (16)
79268	2002-09-13 11:41:00	> maybe you can get at it through linux :) I didn't think of that :) but then I have no way of getting it into my Windows partition :( unless someone wants to tell me how to do that! :) > Or you could set up a 9x system in VM Ware :D (you > people must be sick of me pimping this) I thought of that, but too much hassle for a couple of video files :) Mike.	Mike (15)
79269	2002-09-13 12:10:00	To get it into your windows partition you could upload it to a webhost and download it again -->> not very nice. Or you could burn to a CD if you have a CD writer. Or use a linux NTFS driver.	-=JM=- (16)
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