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Media Player 12 auto-play behavior when inserting audio CD

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These days, we find a interesting problem from the technet forum.

You are using Windows Media player 12 to play a video, then insert an audio CD, WMP will stop the video and begin playing the CD. Obviously it's annoying.

Even tried changing the AutoPlay settings to “Take no action” under Control Panel to prevent audio CD from playing automatically. But still no go.

If you are suffering this issue, here is an easy way to stop it in several simple steps.
1.  Go to Control Panel, AutoPlay
2.  Change the Audio CD to "? Ask me every time" and click save

3. Open Media Player and insert a CD.
4.  When the AutoPlay window appears, check the "Always do this for Audio CDs:" checkbox
5.  Click on the blue link on the bottom: "View more Auto Play options in control panel"


6.  Change the Audio CD selection back to "Take no action" and click save
7.  Click the red X to close the AutoPlay window.
Windows Media Player 12 now will no longer kick into AutoPlay

Reference:
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https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpromedia/Thread/3EDEBC4E-060A-4474-A5B3-114C74BF5A4D
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itpromedia/thread/7ec583ee-0308-4362-af43-3cfac909f3e2
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itpromedia/thread/33d03e71-80fb-4810-9d3b-c261db75c0cf
https://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7pictures/thread/bbc92709-b101-4c65-b87f-d6d331528d5e

 

Edit: KB2475116 was published, please refer it for more details. https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2475116



Comments

  • Anonymous
    December 02, 2010
    This does not work on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit with all current updates. As long as "Use AutoPlay.." is checked in the control panel with all  media types having "Take no action" assigned.

  • Anonymous
    January 02, 2011
    like it says i those threads a hundred times changing autoplay ...just ... does ... not ... work the solution above ...just ... does ... not ... work its not just music , if i am watching a film and i insert a USB/CD with an old avi file on it Media player will stop what i am watching and kick in the file on the USB

  • Anonymous
    February 04, 2011
    @Mr Cairo This solves the problem partially. Make the following additions in the registry and the playback is not "unrecoverable"

  1. Open Regedit
  2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftMediaPlayerPreferences
  3. Create a DWORD with name "MediaFolderDetectionDepth" and set its value to "0"
  4. Create a DWORD with name "NonMediaCountToAbortMediaFolderDetection" and set its value to "0" Now, I put in a DVD with some media files, and mp3 playback does not stop. (previously this was stopping the playback) In case of inserting a DVD, then I had to stop the playback and press "Play Previous List" in the "Now Playing Window" Restart is not required. (I see that WMP12 is reading the key atleast one time when the drive is inserted). May be my answer is incomplete. If so, someone please help me (I will also work on this) I hope this was useful to some level.

  • Anonymous
    March 22, 2011
    This is not a fix for Windows 7 and Media Player 12. Media Player still switches to the CD and starts playing, even when other media is in current use. Please remove this as a fix. It is WRONG.

  • Anonymous
    August 23, 2011
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    September 20, 2011
    ^Above suggestion did not work for me; rip cd automatically was already unchecked.

  • Anonymous
    October 17, 2011
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    June 22, 2012
    Yup, I've tried everythign in allthreads. This is a bug that won't go away.

  • Anonymous
    April 01, 2013
    Nothing in this thread worked for me.  What I did that worked was: Open the registry editor Browse to HKEY_Current_UserSoftwareMicrosoftMediaPlayerPreferences Create a new DWORD value (if it doesn't already exist) called CDAutoPlay Set it to 0 Problem solved.

  • Anonymous
    April 24, 2013
    The recommendation by Scissors still does not solve the problem.

  • Anonymous
    October 20, 2013
    This works a treet for me :) social.technet.microsoft.com/.../windows-7-autoplay-problem

  • Anonymous
    September 10, 2014
    Great and a very informative blog for me. Thanks a lot for sharing the blog.

  • Anonymous
    November 11, 2014
    Nice one. Keep sharing.

  • Anonymous
    December 09, 2014
    I despise Microsoft.

  • Anonymous
    October 14, 2015
    Did all of the above, as well as the link below. Something worked; don't care what, but it worked. WMP no longer autoplays CD's when I'm trying to do something else, like rip multiple disks.

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/967715