Vchat20
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|  Barebones 'CD player' application
First off, this is gonna be one of those real 'weird' software requests and I'd appreciate if if the usual alternative suggestions are left out as I know about them all. Thank you.
I'm mainly curious about what applications are available that do one simple thing: Audio CD playback and do so following what's dictated by the system for said drive (ie: Not defaulting to digital playback if the drive is forced to do analog cd audio.)
I have one of the older cd-rom only drives in my system here with a headphone jack and volume control and I've been using that with the settings in XP set to do analog audio on that drive only. Combined with the classic cd player app from Win2K, it's nearly a foolproof setup for cd audio. And the audio seems to be of a bit better quality coming off the cd-rom's DAC instead of going all over the sound card and finally out it's DAC(s).
The only problem with that is the facility in Win2K's cd player no longer works for looking up the cd info online which is the one feature I am sorely missing at this point.
Are there any other equivalent cd player apps out there that include this functionality for existing services like freedb?
Thanks.
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Jahntassa
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wings10
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Audiograbber also is a player. |
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dvd536
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said by Vchat20  :The only problem with that is the facility in Win2K's cd player no longer works for looking up the cd info online which is the one feature I am sorely missing at this point. you *could* just go into the registry and edit the sites that win2k's cdplayer uses to go out and get its info[backup registry first though]
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Vchat20
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1 edit | said by dvd536 :said by Vchat20 :The only problem with that is the facility in Win2K's cd player no longer works for looking up the cd info online which is the one feature I am sorely missing at this point. you *could* just go into the registry and edit the sites that win2k's cdplayer uses to go out and get its info[backup registry first though] I'll have to look into that option. I remember trying before and it never really 100% worked like I expected for some reason. But always worth a second shot.
As it stands, Win2K's cd player does everything I want AND is low resource at that. So if I can get it to pulling cd data again online, I'd be golden.
I know I really have other multi-purpose apps to do this like foobar, windows media player, audiograbber, winamp, etc.. Sometimes though I have a need to have something that will literally hide in the background in terms of resource usage (cpu usage is nil thanks to the cd-rom DAC doing the audio, mem usage should also be minimal for the same reason.). For mp3's and other audio files, yes, I have winamp. But I'm not completely rid of cd's yet. I still have a car cd player to cater to. 
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