Media Player doesn't see my CDRW

I am trying to burn some music. I have WMP version 7.01, completely updated. When I tell it to copy to CD, it says "No CD recording devices found on your system." I can burn stuff to my CD drive all the time. I used NTI CD Maker instead, which worked well enough to make me a drink coaster on the last song, though the first 9 are good.

 

WMP

Click TOOLS/OPTIONS, select DEVICES tab & if your s ain't there then add it. Select properties to set perimaters

 

I only show a tab for portable devices. When I choose to search for media, it doesn't show my DVD drive or my CDRW, even though it will play music from them.

 

Dang it

Darn if I know, will look deeper tho. I seldom use WMP but ya know what? Mine is ver:8 too, dah me

Have ya tried winamp? Heck of a player/ripper/

 

Heck, I'll just upgrade to a newer WMP, didn't know there was a new one really. I tried Winamp years ago and didn't care for it. I know, it's so different now! Creature of habit I guess. I know how to use WMP, and never had trouble burning CDs with it before.

 

I can't get ver 8. It says mine is up to date. Bah!
Oh well!

 

wmp

Maybe someone will stagger in & save us both, eh

Oh BTW do ya have all those win200pro service paks installed? Maybe then ya can get wmp8?

 

Funny you should ask, I've had SP3 on the computer from the day before it was released, and finally installed it this morning.
I only tried going through WMP update, maybe I should go to the Microsoft site and find WMP 8. No! I'll try download.com. That's much better than Mr. Bates, oops, Gates' site!

 

"Currently, it is impossible to download the Media Player. However, Microsoft has released the Windows Media Player 8 Encoding Utility which may be downloaded from the link below. "

Yeah, that's what Kazaa is for I might do that later. If nobody else has any suggestions.

 

I found WMP8 beta 2, for 95/98. I also found wmp 9. Anybody know where I can get 8 for Win2k?

 

beta 9

Stay away from WMP 9beta, ya can not uninstall the thang.
I got my 8 here http://tomsprograms.toms-world.org/WMP8MP3Hack.php

But alas his layer made him dump it off. The source code is still here & lotsa cleaver stuff that mite help ya