I am having the same exact problem. If I go to the Device Manager and
disable the Digital audio box, it appears to start ripping the music but on
playback there is no sound. Everything appears to be working on playback,
but there is no sound. I have tried in both WMA and MP3 nformat. Normal CD
playback will not function unless the digital audio box is checked in the
device manager. I have Windows XP Media Center edition and Windows Media
Player vers. 11
Either you have DMA *on* in Device Manager or your CD (or DVD) drive's
analog audio cable is not connected. [On Win9x, DMA is set on the
Properties:Settings dialog tab of your CD-ROM drive in Device Manager. On
WinNT (2000/XP), this is set under Device Manager:IDE ATA/ATAPI
controllers:Primary IDE Channel:Advanced Settings.] Within WMP, the
"Analog" (vs. Digital) setting is in WMP's Tools:Options:Devices menu
option, in the Properties for the CD device in question.
If none of this helps - your best options are to either try an upgrade to
Windows XP (better CD handling and drivers are found there) or to try a
different CD-ROM drive.

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>I am having the same exact problem. If I go to the Device Manager and
> disable the Digital audio box, it appears to start ripping the music but
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cwby46 - 30 Jan 2008 12:49 GMT
Thanks for your info. I am still a bit confused. Should I have digital
audio enabled or not? It seems that if I do not have it enabled the CD will
not play. If I do I can't rip anything. Where do I check to see if the
analog cable is connected?

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> Either you have DMA *on* in Device Manager or your CD (or DVD) drive's
> analog audio cable is not connected. [On Win9x, DMA is set on the
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zachd [MSFT] - 30 Jan 2008 19:05 GMT
If it doesn't play with that on, sounds like something is screwy.
You can check if the analog cable is connected through looking inside the PC
case. =\

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> Thanks for your info. I am still a bit confused. Should I have digital
> audio enabled or not? It seems that if I do not have it enabled the CD
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