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How to Play CDs on Desktop

January 1, 2024 by admin Category: How To

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This wikiHow teaches you how to play audio CDs on Windows and Mac computers.

Table of Contents

  • Steps
    • Play CDs on Windows
    • Adjust Windows AutoPlay settings
    • Play CDs on Mac
    • Adjust CD defaults on Mac
  • Advice

Steps

Play CDs on Windows

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Press the Eject button on the disc player. This button is usually located on the bottom, right front of the drive.
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Insert the CD into the tray, label facing up.
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Close the tray by pushing in or pressing Eject again. The motor will close the drive itself (except for spring loaded drives on notebooks).
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Click Select to choose what happens with audio CDs . If this message does not appear on the screen, you may have already selected an action when the CD is inserted.

  • If you want to change the program that automatically runs when the CD is inserted, you can do it on the Contrp Panel.
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Click Play audio CD . You will see one or more installed programs that can play the CD shown below. Windows Media Player is a pre-installed program on all Windows operating systems.
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Start Windows Media Player if AutoPlay does not appear. If nothing has happened since you inserted the disc, manually open Windows Media Player.

  • Press ⊞ Win and type “windows media player.”
  • Click Windows Media Player in the list.
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Double-click the audio CD in the menu on the left. The disc will start playing, you will see the tracks appear in the middle of the window.
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Click and drag the Vpume slider in Windows Media Player to adjust the CD volume as it plays. Note that this slider is not related to the system volume. You need to make sure that the system volume is set to audible before adjusting the volume of Windows Media Player.

Adjust Windows AutoPlay settings

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Open the Control Panel. The process is different between Windows 8 and 10 than Windows 7 and earlier:

  • Windows 6 and 10 – Right-click the Start button and select “Contrp Panel.”
  • Windows 7 and earlier – Click the Start button and select “Contrp Panel” from the Start menu.
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Click the AutoPlay option. If you don’t see this option, click the “View by” menu in the upper-right corner and select “Large icons” or “Small icons”.
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Scroll down to the CDs section.
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Click the Audio CD drop-down menu.
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Click the action you want when the CD is inserted.
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Click the Enhanced audio CD drop-down menu.
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Click the action you want for the enhanced CD audio.
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Click the Save button. The actions you choose will be set as the default settings when the CD is inserted into the computer.

Play CDs on Mac

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Insert the CD into the Mac computer’s drive. Make sure that the disc label is facing up.

  • Most laptop Macs have a disc slot, while desktop Macs will have a slide-out tray.
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Click the iTunes button in the Dock if the program doesn’t open automatically.
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Click the disc icon located along the top row of iTunes buttons.
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Click the Play button to start playing the CD.
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Click and drag the Vpume slider to adjust the volume. This slider is at the top of the window, next to the playback controls.

  • The volume slider on iTunes is completely independent of the system volume slider. If the system volume is all the way down, adjusting the volume on iTunes has no effect.
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Pop the disc out after listening to it. There are several ways to remove a disc from a Mac computer:

  • Press the Eject button on the keyboard.
  • Press ⌘ Command + E .
  • Click the desktop, choose File→Eject.
  • Drag the CD icon on the desktop and drop it in the Trash. This is only possible if the drive icon is on the desktop.
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Update iTunes if the CD is ejected automatically. Some users of older versions of iTunes reported that the audio CD ejected automatically even though the other discs were still working. This issue is usually fixed after updating to the latest version of iTunes. [1] X Research Source

Adjust CD defaults on Mac

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Click the Apple menu.
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Click System Preferences . If you don’t see all the System Preferences options, click the Show All button at the top of the window.
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Click CDs & DVDs in the second item of the System Preferences menu.
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Click the When you insert a music CD menu.
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Click the action you want. If you want the CD to play right on iTunes, select “Open iTunes”.
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Open iTunes. If you set iTunes to open automatically when a CD is inserted, you can now set more specific actions for iTunes to take.
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Click the iTunes menu.
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Click Preferences .
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Click the When you insert a CD menu.
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Click the action you want to run when the CD is inserted. You can choose to start playing music, import songs to your library, or display CD content.
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    Click OK. The CD when inserted into the computer will be played automatically on iTunes.
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