Music CDs not playing

[Jo-Anne[_4_]]

I've been using VLC Media Player to play commercial music CDs for years.
Suddenly, it will play the first CD OK after I start up the computer,
but with the second one, it will play one track and then stop. VLC had
been nagging me to update, so I did the update; no change. I installed
Media Player Classic, and the CDs are playing properly in it.

I don't want to get rid of VLC, since I have several radio stations set
up to stream through it, and it gives more information about the tracks
than MPC.

Any thoughts on what I should try to get CDs to work properly in VLC? I
Googled the problem but didn't see anything like this.

--
Thank you,
Jo-Anne

[Billy Ray Ferrell Running For \USA Vice President 2016\]

"Jo-Anne" > wrote in message
...
> I've been using VLC Media Player to play commercial music CDs for years.
> Suddenly, it will play the first CD OK after I start up the computer, but
> with the second one, it will play one track and then stop. VLC had been
> nagging me to update, so I did the update; no change. I installed Media
> Player Classic, and the CDs are playing properly in it.
>
> I don't want to get rid of VLC, since I have several radio stations set up
> to stream through it, and it gives more information about the tracks than
> MPC.
>
> Any thoughts on what I should try to get CDs to work properly in VLC? I
> Googled the problem but didn't see anything like this.
>


CDROM or DVDROM for firmware
upgrade for the OS...
May fixes the problem

[Paul]

Jo-Anne wrote:
> I've been using VLC Media Player to play commercial music CDs for years.
> Suddenly, it will play the first CD OK after I start up the computer,
> but with the second one, it will play one track and then stop. VLC had
> been nagging me to update, so I did the update; no change. I installed
> Media Player Classic, and the CDs are playing properly in it.
>
> I don't want to get rid of VLC, since I have several radio stations set
> up to stream through it, and it gives more information about the tracks
> than MPC.
>
> Any thoughts on what I should try to get CDs to work properly in VLC? I
> Googled the problem but didn't see anything like this.
>

VLC (apparently) has logging capability.
Generate some logs.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4303017/how-to-get-vlc-logs

Paul

[Jo-Anne[_4_]]

On 8/8/2015 11:36 AM, Billy Ray Ferrell Running For "USA Vice President
2016" wrote:
>
> "Jo-Anne" > wrote in message
> ...
>> I've been using VLC Media Player to play commercial music CDs for
>> years. Suddenly, it will play the first CD OK after I start up the
>> computer, but with the second one, it will play one track and then
>> stop. VLC had been nagging me to update, so I did the update; no
>> change. I installed Media Player Classic, and the CDs are playing
>> properly in it.
>>
>> I don't want to get rid of VLC, since I have several radio stations
>> set up to stream through it, and it gives more information about the
>> tracks than MPC.
>>
>> Any thoughts on what I should try to get CDs to work properly in VLC?
>> I Googled the problem but didn't see anything like this.
>>
>
>
> CDROM or DVDROM for firmware
> upgrade for the OS...
> May fixes the problem


Not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate?

--
Thank you,
Jo-Anne

[Jo-Anne[_4_]]

On 8/8/2015 12:47 PM, Paul wrote:
> Jo-Anne wrote:
>> I've been using VLC Media Player to play commercial music CDs for
>> years. Suddenly, it will play the first CD OK after I start up the
>> computer, but with the second one, it will play one track and then
>> stop. VLC had been nagging me to update, so I did the update; no
>> change. I installed Media Player Classic, and the CDs are playing
>> properly in it.
>>
>> I don't want to get rid of VLC, since I have several radio stations
>> set up to stream through it, and it gives more information about the
>> tracks than MPC.
>>
>> Any thoughts on what I should try to get CDs to work properly in VLC?
>> I Googled the problem but didn't see anything like this.
>>
>
> VLC (apparently) has logging capability.
> Generate some logs.
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4303017/how-to-get-vlc-logs
>
> Paul

Thank you, Paul, but I'm not getting an error message. It just stops
playing after the first track. Is it likely to log that problem?

--
Jo-Anne

[Paul]

Jo-Anne wrote:
> On 8/8/2015 12:47 PM, Paul wrote:
>> Jo-Anne wrote:
>>> I've been using VLC Media Player to play commercial music CDs for
>>> years. Suddenly, it will play the first CD OK after I start up the
>>> computer, but with the second one, it will play one track and then
>>> stop. VLC had been nagging me to update, so I did the update; no
>>> change. I installed Media Player Classic, and the CDs are playing
>>> properly in it.
>>>
>>> I don't want to get rid of VLC, since I have several radio stations
>>> set up to stream through it, and it gives more information about the
>>> tracks than MPC.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts on what I should try to get CDs to work properly in VLC?
>>> I Googled the problem but didn't see anything like this.
>>>
>>
>> VLC (apparently) has logging capability.
>> Generate some logs.
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4303017/how-to-get-vlc-logs
>>
>> Paul
>
> Thank you, Paul, but I'm not getting an error message. It just stops
> playing after the first track. Is it likely to log that problem?
>

I don't see any harm from turning on logging.

The authors of the program would likely insist
on doing that, if you wanted to file a problem
report for your problem.

Paul

[Jo-Anne[_4_]]

On 8/9/2015 12:20 PM, Paul wrote:
> Jo-Anne wrote:
>> On 8/8/2015 12:47 PM, Paul wrote:
>>> Jo-Anne wrote:
>>>> I've been using VLC Media Player to play commercial music CDs for
>>>> years. Suddenly, it will play the first CD OK after I start up the
>>>> computer, but with the second one, it will play one track and then
>>>> stop. VLC had been nagging me to update, so I did the update; no
>>>> change. I installed Media Player Classic, and the CDs are playing
>>>> properly in it.
>>>>
>>>> I don't want to get rid of VLC, since I have several radio stations
>>>> set up to stream through it, and it gives more information about the
>>>> tracks than MPC.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts on what I should try to get CDs to work properly in VLC?
>>>> I Googled the problem but didn't see anything like this.
>>>>
>>>
>>> VLC (apparently) has logging capability.
>>> Generate some logs.
>>>
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4303017/how-to-get-vlc-logs
>>>
>>> Paul
>>
>> Thank you, Paul, but I'm not getting an error message. It just stops
>> playing after the first track. Is it likely to log that problem?
>>
>
> I don't see any harm from turning on logging.
>
> The authors of the program would likely insist
> on doing that, if you wanted to file a problem
> report for your problem.
>
> Paul


I'm not exactly sure what to do. Should I, at the command prompt, type

vlc.exe --extraintf=http:logger --verbose=2 --file-logging
--logfile=vlc-log.txt

or is there some other way to get an error log?

--
Thank you again,
Jo-Anne

[Paul]

Jo-Anne wrote:
> On 8/9/2015 12:20 PM, Paul wrote:
>> Jo-Anne wrote:
>>> On 8/8/2015 12:47 PM, Paul wrote:
>>>> Jo-Anne wrote:
>>>>> I've been using VLC Media Player to play commercial music CDs for
>>>>> years. Suddenly, it will play the first CD OK after I start up the
>>>>> computer, but with the second one, it will play one track and then
>>>>> stop. VLC had been nagging me to update, so I did the update; no
>>>>> change. I installed Media Player Classic, and the CDs are playing
>>>>> properly in it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't want to get rid of VLC, since I have several radio stations
>>>>> set up to stream through it, and it gives more information about the
>>>>> tracks than MPC.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any thoughts on what I should try to get CDs to work properly in VLC?
>>>>> I Googled the problem but didn't see anything like this.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> VLC (apparently) has logging capability.
>>>> Generate some logs.
>>>>
>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4303017/how-to-get-vlc-logs
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>
>>> Thank you, Paul, but I'm not getting an error message. It just stops
>>> playing after the first track. Is it likely to log that problem?
>>>
>>
>> I don't see any harm from turning on logging.
>>
>> The authors of the program would likely insist
>> on doing that, if you wanted to file a problem
>> report for your problem.
>>
>> Paul
>
>
> I'm not exactly sure what to do. Should I, at the command prompt, type
>
> vlc.exe --extraintf=http:logger --verbose=2 --file-logging
> --logfile=vlc-log.txt
>
> or is there some other way to get an error log?
>

Hmmm. Probably needs a bit of tuning on the command front.

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=88914

vlc -I http –fullscreen --file-logging --logfile=vlc.log --log-verbose=2
vlc -I http --extraintf logger --log-verbose=2 --verbose-objects=+all -vvv --fullscreen

What I would do. First, locate your copy of VLC.

Mine is in C:\Downloads\vlc-2.2.0\vlc.exe

I also see a folder it's using, with files dated today.

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\vlc

Open Command Prompt.

cd /d C:\Downloads\vlc-2.2.0

vlc --help

notepad vlc-help.txt

The "extraintf" stands for Extra Interface Module. So that adds
capability to the player. If we use the originally posted
command

vlc.exe --extraintf=http:logger --verbose=2 --file-logging --logfile=vlc-log.txt

notepad vlc-log.txt

that is going to log into the current working directory
we cd'ed to. I hope it goes into C:\Downloads\vlc-2.2.0\vlc-log.txt
and not into Application Data area.

Now, I got a complaint from the Windows firewall. So
I'll try again. Stripping off the http, we try again.

vlc.exe --extraintf=logger --verbose=2 --file-logging --logfile=vlc-log.txt

This time, no complaint from Windows Firewall, and a log
is still generated.

When in the VLC dialog, use it as normal. After
the fault, you can quit VLC and then review the log
if you want.

notepad vlc-log.txt

Mine was 25KB, because I only played 10 seconds of video.

You can play with the verbosity level if you want.

Paul

[dell]

"Jo-Anne" > wrote in message
...
> I've been using VLC Media Player to play commercial music CDs for years.
> Suddenly, it will play the first CD OK after I start up the computer, but
> with the second one, it will play one track and then stop. VLC had been
> nagging me to update, so I did the update; no change. I installed Media
> Player Classic, and the CDs are playing properly in it.
>
> I don't want to get rid of VLC, since I have several radio stations set up
> to stream through it, and it gives more information about the tracks than
> MPC.
>
> Any thoughts on what I should try to get CDs to work properly in VLC? I
> Googled the problem but didn't see anything like this.

problem helper for you
Search the forum
< http://www.videohelp.com/ >

[Jo-Anne[_4_]]

On 8/10/2015 10:13 AM, dell wrote:
>
> "Jo-Anne" > wrote in message
> ...
>> I've been using VLC Media Player to play commercial music CDs for
>> years. Suddenly, it will play the first CD OK after I start up the
>> computer, but with the second one, it will play one track and then
>> stop. VLC had been nagging me to update, so I did the update; no
>> change. I installed Media Player Classic, and the CDs are playing
>> properly in it.
>>
>> I don't want to get rid of VLC, since I have several radio stations
>> set up to stream through it, and it gives more information about the
>> tracks than MPC.
>>
>> Any thoughts on what I should try to get CDs to work properly in VLC?
>> I Googled the problem but didn't see anything like this.
>
> problem helper for you
> Search the forum
> < http://www.videohelp.com/ >


Thank you, Dell. I tried to do a search--but I got thousands of hits,
with a lot of the first 50 of them about burning CDs, even though I
specified playing. I'll give up for now but may try the VLC forums later.

--
Jo-Anne

[Billy Ray Ferrell Running For \USA Vice President 2016\]

"Jo-Anne" > wrote in message
...
> On 8/10/2015 10:13 AM, dell wrote:
>>
>> "Jo-Anne" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> I've been using VLC Media Player to play commercial music CDs for
>>> years. Suddenly, it will play the first CD OK after I start up the
>>> computer, but with the second one, it will play one track and then
>>> stop. VLC had been nagging me to update, so I did the update; no
>>> change. I installed Media Player Classic, and the CDs are playing
>>> properly in it.
>>>
>>> I don't want to get rid of VLC, since I have several radio stations
>>> set up to stream through it, and it gives more information about the
>>> tracks than MPC.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts on what I should try to get CDs to work properly in VLC?
>>> I Googled the problem but didn't see anything like this.
>>
>> problem helper for you
>> Search the forum
>> < http://www.videohelp.com/ >
>
>
> Thank you, Dell. I tried to do a search--but I got thousands of hits, with
> a lot of the first 50 of them about burning CDs, even though I specified
> playing. I'll give up for now but may try the VLC forums later.

Download sites:
Visit developer's site
< http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ >

< http://www.videohelp.com/software/VLC-media-player >


Latest version:
2.2.1 (April 16, 2015)

Post #82 by hddvdrebel

I'm a big fan of VLC player, however,
the new version has some serious bugs.
I tried to open a folder of .flv files.
While browsing through the folder,
the program would lock up.

When I closed the program,
and tried again,
the same problem.
Eventually my whole computer locked up.
I went to task manager,
and although no applications were running,
under "processes" there were a couple of vlc player processes working
simultaneously.
Once I ended those processes,
things returned to normal.
I tried it again with the same bugs.

I then deleted 2.00 and returned to version 1.11 and everything worked
normally.
I hope the bug is worked out.
I scored the "functionality" and "overall" score very low,
however, the old version 1.11 would get high scores.
A fix with a "2.01" version would make me a happy camper.

[Bill in Co]

Jo-Anne wrote:
> On 8/10/2015 10:13 AM, dell wrote:
>>
>> "Jo-Anne" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> I've been using VLC Media Player to play commercial music CDs for
>>> years. Suddenly, it will play the first CD OK after I start up the
>>> computer, but with the second one, it will play one track and then
>>> stop. VLC had been nagging me to update, so I did the update; no
>>> change. I installed Media Player Classic, and the CDs are playing
>>> properly in it.
>>>
>>> I don't want to get rid of VLC, since I have several radio stations
>>> set up to stream through it, and it gives more information about the
>>> tracks than MPC.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts on what I should try to get CDs to work properly in VLC?
>>> I Googled the problem but didn't see anything like this.
>>
>> problem helper for you
>> Search the forum
>> < http://www.videohelp.com/ >
>
>
> Thank you, Dell. I tried to do a search--but I got thousands of hits,
> with a lot of the first 50 of them about burning CDs, even though I
> specified playing. I'll give up for now but may try the VLC forums later.
>
> --
> Jo-Anne

You could try uninstalling VLC, deleting any remaining directories
containing any VLC related data, such as in its Application Data or Program
Files directories (after first making a note or copy of what customizations
you had made for VLC), and then reinstalling VLC clean.

Sometimes when I've had to do this for a program for whatever reason, I'll
copy its INI file (or related), just to keep track of the customizations I
had made before whatever problem crept up. Then I'll look at the old INI
and within the program start customizing it back.

[Jo-Anne[_4_]]

On 8/10/2015 5:22 PM, Bill in Co wrote:
> Jo-Anne wrote:
>> On 8/10/2015 10:13 AM, dell wrote:
>>>
>>> "Jo-Anne" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> I've been using VLC Media Player to play commercial music CDs for
>>>> years. Suddenly, it will play the first CD OK after I start up the
>>>> computer, but with the second one, it will play one track and then
>>>> stop. VLC had been nagging me to update, so I did the update; no
>>>> change. I installed Media Player Classic, and the CDs are playing
>>>> properly in it.
>>>>
>>>> I don't want to get rid of VLC, since I have several radio stations
>>>> set up to stream through it, and it gives more information about the
>>>> tracks than MPC.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts on what I should try to get CDs to work properly in VLC?
>>>> I Googled the problem but didn't see anything like this.
>>>
>>> problem helper for you
>>> Search the forum
>>> < http://www.videohelp.com/ >
>>
>>
>> Thank you, Dell. I tried to do a search--but I got thousands of hits,
>> with a lot of the first 50 of them about burning CDs, even though I
>> specified playing. I'll give up for now but may try the VLC forums later.
>>
>> --
>> Jo-Anne
>
> You could try uninstalling VLC, deleting any remaining directories
> containing any VLC related data, such as in its Application Data or Program
> Files directories (after first making a note or copy of what customizations
> you had made for VLC), and then reinstalling VLC clean.
>
> Sometimes when I've had to do this for a program for whatever reason, I'll
> copy its INI file (or related), just to keep track of the customizations I
> had made before whatever problem crept up. Then I'll look at the old INI
> and within the program start customizing it back.
>
>
Thank you, Bill. That's an excellent approach. What I was going to do
was go back to the last version that ran well, since I've had trouble
with the current one and the one immediately preceding it.

However, today I did something with the playlist, and so far the CDs are
playing through. I'm not quite sure what I did (I think I checked the
box to "dock" the playlist, although that shouldn't make a difference).
In any case, the playlist is showing up differently and the CDs are
beginning with track 1 and continuing on. Before, the highlight stayed
on the CD drive--never moved to any of the tracks. Moreover, if I tried
to start the CD from, say, track 1 or track 2, I got an error message.

If whatever happened today doesn't stick, I'll follow your advice.

--
Jo-Anne

[Jo-Anne[_4_]]

On 8/9/2015 3:55 PM, Paul wrote:
> Jo-Anne wrote:
>> On 8/9/2015 12:20 PM, Paul wrote:
>>> Jo-Anne wrote:
>>>> On 8/8/2015 12:47 PM, Paul wrote:
>>>>> Jo-Anne wrote:
>>>>>> I've been using VLC Media Player to play commercial music CDs for
>>>>>> years. Suddenly, it will play the first CD OK after I start up the
>>>>>> computer, but with the second one, it will play one track and then
>>>>>> stop. VLC had been nagging me to update, so I did the update; no
>>>>>> change. I installed Media Player Classic, and the CDs are playing
>>>>>> properly in it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't want to get rid of VLC, since I have several radio stations
>>>>>> set up to stream through it, and it gives more information about the
>>>>>> tracks than MPC.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any thoughts on what I should try to get CDs to work properly in VLC?
>>>>>> I Googled the problem but didn't see anything like this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> VLC (apparently) has logging capability.
>>>>> Generate some logs.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4303017/how-to-get-vlc-logs
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>> Thank you, Paul, but I'm not getting an error message. It just stops
>>>> playing after the first track. Is it likely to log that problem?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't see any harm from turning on logging.
>>>
>>> The authors of the program would likely insist
>>> on doing that, if you wanted to file a problem
>>> report for your problem.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>
>>
>> I'm not exactly sure what to do. Should I, at the command prompt, type
>>
>> vlc.exe --extraintf=http:logger --verbose=2 --file-logging
>> --logfile=vlc-log.txt
>>
>> or is there some other way to get an error log?
>>
>
> Hmmm. Probably needs a bit of tuning on the command front.
>
> https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=88914
>
> vlc -I http –fullscreen --file-logging --logfile=vlc.log
> --log-verbose=2
> vlc -I http --extraintf logger --log-verbose=2
> --verbose-objects=+all -vvv --fullscreen
>
> What I would do. First, locate your copy of VLC.
>
> Mine is in C:\Downloads\vlc-2.2.0\vlc.exe
>
> I also see a folder it's using, with files dated today.
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\vlc
>
> Open Command Prompt.
>
> cd /d C:\Downloads\vlc-2.2.0
>
> vlc --help
>
> notepad vlc-help.txt
>
> The "extraintf" stands for Extra Interface Module. So that adds
> capability to the player. If we use the originally posted
> command
>
> vlc.exe --extraintf=http:logger --verbose=2 --file-logging
> --logfile=vlc-log.txt
>
> notepad vlc-log.txt
>
> that is going to log into the current working directory
> we cd'ed to. I hope it goes into C:\Downloads\vlc-2.2.0\vlc-log.txt
> and not into Application Data area.
>
> Now, I got a complaint from the Windows firewall. So
> I'll try again. Stripping off the http, we try again.
>
> vlc.exe --extraintf=logger --verbose=2 --file-logging
> --logfile=vlc-log.txt
>
> This time, no complaint from Windows Firewall, and a log
> is still generated.
>
> When in the VLC dialog, use it as normal. After
> the fault, you can quit VLC and then review the log
> if you want.
>
> notepad vlc-log.txt
>
> Mine was 25KB, because I only played 10 seconds of video.
>
> You can play with the verbosity level if you want.
>
> Paul


Thank you, Paul! I'm saving your instructions. For now, I did something
today that seems to be allowing the CDs to play through. All I did (I
think) was "dock" the playlist. Now I seem to have two playlists--the
one that comes up when I open VLC by double-clicking on a radio station
and a different one that comes up when I open VLC directly and that I
use for opening CDs. If this continues to work, I'll be happy.

--
Jo-Anne