EASIER CD LISTENING

"I'd like to change the program that plays my audio CDs from CD Player to, say CDMAX. I searched the Registry and found a few places where CD Player is referenced. What needs to be changed?"

Actually, you won't need to go anywhere near the Registry to make this change. Audio CD is one of the file types in the list of registered types. Just change its association to match the program you want to use to open audio CDs.

Inside any Explorer window, select View, Folder Options. Click the File Types tab, select Audio CD in the list of Registered file types, then click the Edit button. Select the Play action and click the Edit button. Under Application Used To Perform action, type the path of the program you'd like to use to play audio CDs, followed by a space and '/play'. For example, if you wanted use FlexiCD, you would type:

C:\WINDOWS\FlexiCD.exe /play

Click OK, click Close twice, and the change has been made. The next time you pop in an audio CD, your program of choice goes to work.

This page last updated: Monday, 24. May 1999 09:46:53 -0500