Solved Inserting a music CD causes Windows 8.1 to freeze

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NicDG asked on December 15, 2013
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The title says it all. I installed Windows 8.1 this weekend and when I insert a music CD Windows 8.1 freezes. It is not instant, it takes a few minutes before it freezes. There are no blue screens or crashdumps or anything useful. Windows simply stops responding and I have to power cycle my PC. The only entry in the Windows log is a kernel power event complaining about an unexpected shutdown. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions.


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not sure but if it were mine I would try this ,go to control panel, AUTO PLAY, and set up auto run for the different cd functions ,not saying it will fix it ,just the first thing that come to mind
 

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I've had corrupted media do that to Windows. XP actually. It was a video file. If Windows was set to display thumbnails it would crash every time I went to that folder. I had to change the "View As" option for that folder and delete the file. Turning off auto play is a good idea.
 

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Yah, it may be a bad disk. A Burnt or Manufactured disk? Try using Windex on the bottom, do not touch the top. If there is a scratch along the top, that's your Music Data gone in that area (Burnt Disk - Manufactured are usually more resilient)
 

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I may be wrong but for me I assume "A music cd" means all music cd's
 

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Music CD's are not what they used to be, at least some of the ones I bought aren't. I've had some with DRM baked in and when you try to play them in a PC they prompt you to install some type or proprietary player bundled with the CD. They don't want you ripping the songs to MP3 files. They also have the regular audio tracks hidden on the CD which play if you put the CD in a regular stereo or your cars CD player. I see what your saying Caperjack. I took it to mean a particular CD didn't work, not all music CD's don't work. Lets see what the OP says about that as it does make a difference.
 

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He did not specifically say all music Cd's - He said "a" music CD, so until he clarifies that, I';ll assume it was one specific CD.

Or, his whole collection could have had coke spilled on it at one time, that wold have the same dire effect.

But it is true, CDs and DVD's are notorious for having a very poor shelf life.
 

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At one time Music CD's were a different format from your DATA CD's. It is conceivable that the optical drive or Windows could hiccup on one type and not the other. "A music CD" could be interpreted to mean a CD of that type. Like you, I took it to mean one specific CD didn't play fair.
 

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"All / only" Music CDs are in CDA format. Other formats for sound like MP3, WMA etc. are essentially Data formats. You can't just copy CDA files somewhere else and expect to work, they need "Ripping" to other sound formats to do that. So, if a player does not recognize CDA format it's bound to grind to a halt and/or give some kind of message about problem.
 

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yeah, when I reread it ,I take it to mean any music cd
 

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Sorry I have not responded sooner, I have been busy.

First off, it seems to be all music CDs that cause the problem, although I have not made a list. The specific CD that prompted this post was Madonna's Erotica (commercial CD from 1992). The CD works fine in my stand alone Blue Ray player and my son's PC running Windows 8 Pro, which would seem to rule out the CD or DRM being the cause of the problem.

@caperjack I have set AUTO PLAY to play music CDs using WMP. This had no effect, the PC still freezes. I am unable to play the CD at all even if I open WMP and try to play the CD directly.

If I open Windows Explorer to "This PC" ("My PC" seems to have been dropped from Win8.1) The address bar becomes a progress bar that goes green. After about 5 minutes the end of the green bar reaches the cancel 'X' at the right end of the address bar at which point the PC simply stops responding and I reach for the reset button.
 

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It also occurs to me that I forgot to mention this is almost immediately after doing a reinstall of Windows 8 and immediately upgrading to Windows 8.1, so there was unlikely to be anything beyond Last Pass, Firefox and maybe Office 365 installed.
 

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At one time Music CD's were a different format from your DATA CD's. It is conceivable that the optical drive or Windows could hiccup on one type and not the other. "A music CD" could be interpreted to mean a CD of that type. Like you, I took it to mean one specific CD didn't play fair.

They still are - They use what is called REDBOOK AUDIO FILESYSTEM. All Programs that burn Audio CD's use this format, even iTines and Windows Media Player. iTunes even uses the CD-TEXT feature so that your player shows the make of song and artist.

A Redbook CD has all bitrates from 44.1 kHz Stereo at 16 bit down to 11 kHz Mono at 4(?) bit, this is so the songs sound the same on all available redbook CD players, like those in a cheap stereo, maybe there is only one speaker.

This is why CDs cannot be copied on a DAO basis, but only on a TAO basis- And you cannot make an IOS image of a music CD, only a Bin+Cue image, which will be one Cue sheet, and as many BIN files as is songs on the CD, each representing the WAV file of that song. Some CD images are one big WAV file with the Cue file, you drag them both into IMGBURN to burn it. Thats how the CDs were made in the first place, with Wav files and a Cue sheet.

I master CDs for people once in a while and I make the master image file and the Cue sheets, I can tell you the format for CDs has NOT changed ever.
 

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Sorry I have not responded sooner, I have been busy.

First off, it seems to be all music CDs that cause the problem, although I have not made a list. The specific CD that prompted this post was Madonna's Erotica (commercial CD from 1992). The CD works fine in my stand alone Blue Ray player and my son's PC running Windows 8 Pro, which would seem to rule out the CD or DRM being the cause of the problem.

@caperjack I have set AUTO PLAY to play music CDs using WMP. This had no effect, the PC still freezes. I am unable to play the CD at all even if I open WMP and try to play the CD directly.

If I open Windows Explorer to "This PC" ("My PC" seems to have been dropped from Win8.1) The address bar becomes a progress bar that goes green. After about 5 minutes the end of the green bar reaches the cancel 'X' at the right end of the address bar at which point the PC simply stops responding and I reach for the reset button.


If you have a CD in your hand, you need not worry about DRM, you own it, it is a physical object. You can even rip the tracks to MP3. and you should, if the CD can be read on another machine.

It sounds like a problem then, with your Physical Optical Disk - If this is a new computer, I'd take it back and make them give you a brand new optical drive.

If Windows is at fault, then you can run the DISM command

from a admin command prompt



Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
 

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    Recently lost my Windows 8 on my main PC, had to go back to Windows 7.
At one time Music CD's were a different format from your DATA CD's. It is conceivable that the optical drive or Windows could hiccup on one type and not the other. "A music CD" could be interpreted to mean a CD of that type. Like you, I took it to mean one specific CD didn't play fair.

They still are - They use what is called REDBOOK AUDIO FILESYSTEM. All Programs that burn Audio CD's use this format, even iTines and Windows Media Player. iTunes even uses the CD-TEXT feature so that your player shows the make of song and artist.

A Redbook CD has all bitrates from 44.1 kHz Stereo at 16 bit down to 11 kHz Mono at 4(?) bit, this is so the songs sound the same on all available redbook CD players, like those in a cheap stereo, maybe there is only one speaker.

This is why CDs cannot be copied on a DAO basis, but only on a TAO basis- And you cannot make an IOS image of a music CD, only a Bin+Cue image, which will be one Cue sheet, and as many BIN files as is songs on the CD, each representing the WAV file of that song. Some CD images are one big WAV file with the Cue file, you drag them both into IMGBURN to burn it. Thats how the CDs were made in the first place, with Wav files and a Cue sheet.

I master CDs for people once in a while and I make the master image file and the Cue sheets, I can tell you the format for CDs has NOT changed ever.

I've got some that just play like a normal music CD and some that don't. I have a couple that when inserted into a PC optical drive will prompt you to install a proprietary player to play them. Some type of DRM. The same CD when put in a boom box just plays like any other music CD. I haven't delved into it to see what's what, its just something I noticed.
 

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yah, there are some CDs that have an extra Data Track, so when you pop em in your PC or MAC they have a nice little player with info and some other features, it is usually some kind of Website with some controls inserted to play the content.

Those would be on a Data track on the disk, but the rest of the disk is still Redbook.

Most CD players for Auto nowadays can play MP3 and some even Audio DVDs, I've never seen an Audio DVD, but the AUDIO_TS folder on a DVD is for this exact thing, it has never been implemented. To make an MP3 disk, it is just a data disk. iTunes makes those as well, but I prefer the regular Redbook disks.

Disney may be trying to make some new CD format that has some damned DRM, I will never be caught buying anything like that, if I buy a new CD and I CANT play it in my car CD player? It gets returned.
 

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I still have an old (since early '90s) Beatles CD with lyrics and album covers but it is all in .Wav files, each album, one big file. It has it's own menu for listening and viewing lyrics and pictures. It still plays on computer but I have no idea where they stuck them, there's no trace of them.
 

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Is it one of those CD's with the big red "1" on it? I have one of those, I should look at it...
 

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    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Asus M2N-MX SE Plus § DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2300 MHz (11.5 x 200) 4400+ § Corsair Value Select
    CPU
    AMD 4400+/4200+
    Motherboard
    Asus M2N-MX SE Plus/Asus A8M2N-LA (NodusM)
    Memory
    2 GB/3GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    GeForce 8400 GS/GeForce 210
    Sound Card
    nVIDIA GT218 - High Definition Audio Controller
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Hitachi 40" LCD HDTV
    Screen Resolution
    "1842 x 1036"
    Hard Drives
    WDC WD50 00AAKS-007AA SCSI Disk Device
    ST1000DL 002-9TT153 SCSI Disk Device
    WDC WD3200AAJB-00J3A0 ATA Device
    WDC WD32 WD-WCAPZ2942630 USB Device
    WD My Book 1140 USB Device
    PSU
    Works 550w
    Case
    MSI "M-Box"
    Cooling
    Water Cooled
    Keyboard
    Dell Keyboard
    Mouse
    Microsoft Intellimouse
    Internet Speed
    Cable Medium Speed
    Browser
    Chrome/IE 10
    Antivirus
    Eset NOD32 6.x/Win Defend
    Other Info
    Recently lost my Windows 8 on my main PC, had to go back to Windows 7.
I still have an old (since early '90s) Beatles CD with lyrics and album covers but it is all in .Wav files, each album, one big file. It has it's own menu for listening and viewing lyrics and pictures. It still plays on computer but I have no idea where they stuck them, there's no trace of them.
I think so, I put away all the CDs and DVDs last month, scarcely use them any more.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home made
    CPU
    AMD Ryzen7 2700x
    Motherboard
    Asus Prime x470 Pro
    Memory
    16GB Kingston 3600
    Graphics Card(s)
    Asus strix 570 OC 4gb
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 960 evo 250GB
    Silicon Power V70 240GB SSD
    WD 1 TB Blue
    WD 2 TB Blue
    Bunch of backup HDDs.
    PSU
    Sharkoon, Silent Storm 660W
    Case
    Raidmax
    Cooling
    CCM Nepton 140xl
    Internet Speed
    40/2 Mbps
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    WD
One of these days I'll but a 3-disk DVD player, that way I wont have to get up until after the 3rd moovie. I have thousands of DVDs and CDs, I just got a 250-CD Player, it does with my Kenwood Surround Sound system.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 Pro with Media Center/Windows 7
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Asus M2N-MX SE Plus § DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2300 MHz (11.5 x 200) 4400+ § Corsair Value Select
    CPU
    AMD 4400+/4200+
    Motherboard
    Asus M2N-MX SE Plus/Asus A8M2N-LA (NodusM)
    Memory
    2 GB/3GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    GeForce 8400 GS/GeForce 210
    Sound Card
    nVIDIA GT218 - High Definition Audio Controller
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Hitachi 40" LCD HDTV
    Screen Resolution
    "1842 x 1036"
    Hard Drives
    WDC WD50 00AAKS-007AA SCSI Disk Device
    ST1000DL 002-9TT153 SCSI Disk Device
    WDC WD3200AAJB-00J3A0 ATA Device
    WDC WD32 WD-WCAPZ2942630 USB Device
    WD My Book 1140 USB Device
    PSU
    Works 550w
    Case
    MSI "M-Box"
    Cooling
    Water Cooled
    Keyboard
    Dell Keyboard
    Mouse
    Microsoft Intellimouse
    Internet Speed
    Cable Medium Speed
    Browser
    Chrome/IE 10
    Antivirus
    Eset NOD32 6.x/Win Defend
    Other Info
    Recently lost my Windows 8 on my main PC, had to go back to Windows 7.
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