"smackedass" <kemanospamcomputer@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Hello again,
>
> Not only am I stumped as to the cause of this problem, but I'm also
> stumped as to how to frame a question to do a Google search...
>
> OS: Windows XP
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> My client cannot listen to, or rip, songs from audio CDs.
>
> There are songs that are stored on the HD that can be listened to.
>

Are you sure that these are CDs? Most disks recently produced are copy
protected (and cannot be legitimately described as CDs). One of the side
effects of most of the copy protection systems is that they prevent the disk
from being played on a PC (by design). Some schemes load a small player
interface software to 'decode' the audio data, but this only installs if the
autoinsert notify is enabled. At least one of these has harmful side
effects (The Sony BMG rootkit protection scheme).