CD Music doesn't play

[TonicBH]

Okay, so I recently got the original Quake for Christmas, and it plays just fine, been using source ports and classic GL/WinQuake.

But I seem to have a problem. For some reason Quake doesn't acknowledge that the CD is in the drive, therefore no CD music. I've tried many things, including putting the disc in another drive, updating hardware drivers, etc. I don't know why it doesn't work, but restarting the computer is a temporary fix.

Other games like Quake II and Half-Life tend to play it fine, but then have the same problem. I have a gut feeling this is a hardware problem

[Chuck]

There are in-game cd commands you can try first. I forget what they are. Look in the quake help section somewhere in this site.

[Spirit]

It looks for the first (letter) cd drive.

[getogamer]

First and foremost, make sure you don't have -nocdaudio in your command line.

[TonicBH]

All the settings don't seem to work, and "-nocdaudio" isn't in my shortcuts, so...

[Baker]

Is the CD-ROM drive self-installed or a 2nd drive? In otherwords, it did come with the computer that way from the factory?

Doing some Googling around, supposedly the primary CD-ROM audio playback drive has a cord running to the motherboard or sound card for audio.

If you put a music CD in your CD-ROM, does it play and can you hear the music?

Option #2: If you really want the music to play, you can use DarkPlaces and rip the CD tracks and convert them to ogg format and place them in the specified locations:

.../quake/id1/sound/cdtracks/track02.ogg
.../quake/id1/sound/cdtracks/track03.ogg
.../quake/id1/sound/cdtracks/track04.ogg
.../quake/id1/sound/cdtracks/track05.ogg
.../quake/id1/sound/cdtracks/track06.ogg
.../quake/id1/sound/cdtracks/track07.ogg
.../quake/id1/sound/cdtracks/track08.ogg
.../quake/id1/sound/cdtracks/track09.ogg
.../quake/id1/sound/cdtracks/track10.ogg
.../quake/id1/sound/cdtracks/track11.ogg

/#2 Answer stolen from a post by Spirit off the PQ forums. Source thread.

[TonicBH]

Let me summarize: One is a drive self-installed (the DVD-RW), the other is a DVD drive that came with the computer. Both of them have cords plugged into the sound card. I can hear the music outside the game just fine.

And as I mentioned, restarting the computer oddly "fixes" the problem until a new disc is inserted, then it refuses to acknowledge the disc again.

[Strogg Boss]

Check ur Sound Settings on that lil tabbar which is on the lower right on the screen & you will see a little speeker icon so click on it twice unmute every single peace of volume & turn it up as high as you want if you dont have 8 volumes click options on ur upper left go properties tick all the boxes you haven't ticked or just tick the CD Audio & turn it up if this still happens i dont know how to help you

[=peg=]

u could also try this:

Make an image file of the audio-cd using nero/power-iso/clone-cd/whatever and mount that to a virtual cd/dvd drive using deamontools/alcohol120%. This way it will play from the HDD avoiding any hardware issues u may have with ur physical cd/dvd-drive..