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Half-OT: Switch Between Audio or Data Contents

Posted: 29 Dec 2012 13:51
by SkyFrontier
Here's a tricky one.
On mixed audio/data CDs I have this issue which may be easy to fix but currently I can't see how.
When I insert a mixed content CD, currently I can't see the audio tracks at all, even after using the old trick of ejecting the CD just to put it back again.

*In an early installment, I had a nice, gentle properties tab (right click the CD drive, select properties and locate this specialized tab) which allowed me to see all the data/audio sessions and conveniently select them*.

Currently I have to run CDroller and "open as audio", then select a track, wait for the software to extract it, then listen to the track, one at a time.

I think this tab was from a 3rd party software, Nero perhaps.

Google is not helping *over the years*, as I need this and often do some searches but get nothing as a result.

1. Can any of you point me alternatives to this, please?

2. Could XYplorer interfere on this, as I'm actually trying to merely access the contents of a mixed optical media from inside the file manager?

2.a What about XYplorer being able to display the several sessions of a multi-session CD, then allowing exploration of each individually, at convenience? This would be (another) unique feature for a file manager, as far as I can tell...

Re: Half-OT: Switch Between Audio or Data Contents

Posted: 29 Dec 2012 17:09
by kunkel321
This is not my area of expertise, but do check out the Gizmo site, if you haven't yet...
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-fr ... ftware.htm

Re: Half-OT: Switch Between Audio or Data Contents

Posted: 29 Dec 2012 18:09
by SkyFrontier
No, Kunkel, it's not about editing rather than seeing and eventually executing audio or data content from the file manager.
Thanks!

Re: Half-OT: Switch Between Audio or Data Contents

Posted: 29 Dec 2012 19:43
by kunkel321
Yea but Audacity or one of the others might have some DLL or other component that will make the files recognizable by Windows, and hence XY... (Maybe?)