It's been a while since I looked at the settings but it's in there somewhere.

Stay well,

Laz

On 5/16/20, Tom Kaufman <[email protected]> wrote:
> LAZ:  Pardon my ignorance, but can you (or someone) tell me how I "point
> Cdex" to my external CD-DVD drive?
> Thanks,
> Tom Kaufman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laz
> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2020 6:34 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [all-audio] Seemingly Not Able To Rip CDs With Portable CD/DVD
> Drive
>
> I believe the problem is that you need to point CDEx to the external
> CD drive as you're no longer using the internal CD drive.
>
> Laz
>
> On 5/16/20, Tom Kaufman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I don't know; I tried a second CD...no soap!  Cdex comes up empty!
>> Tom Kaufman
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hamit
>> Campos
>> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2020 5:50 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [all-audio] Seemingly Not Able To Rip CDs With Portable
>> CD/DVD
>> Drive
>>
>> Yeah Tom cause that's how it should be. I just find this new one odd.
>> Maybe Dell bent the knee to the music guys.
>>
>> On 5/16/2020 5:48 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
>>> Hamit:  Okay...will give that a try; had actually thought of that; all I
>>> know is, usually when I put a CD in (then bring up Cdex) it'll populate
>>> itself with the tracks that are on the CD!  But you may be on to
>>> something!
>>> Tom
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>>> Hamit
>>> Campos
>>> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2020 5:46 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: [all-audio] Seemingly Not Able To Rip CDs With Portable
>>> CD/DVD Drive
>>>
>>> Do you have another CD you've tried before Thom? I'd tri that first.
>>> Just because that seems strange that the CD won't show like it's
>>> supposed to. Maybe it's 1 of those lame as in stupid anti coppy tricks.
>>> But let us know if a trusted CD does the same.
>>>
>>> On 5/16/2020 5:42 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
>>>> Hello list:  Don't know as I can provide enough information here, but
>>>> will
>>>> try: recently, the CD-DVD drive on my Dell desk top died on me!  So I
>>>> called
>>>> my computer guy, who in turn came and took a look; he said, sure
>>>> enough,
>>>> that the CD-DVD Burner drive had died, but that he could get me a new
>>>> one
>>>> in
>>>> a few days!  Unfortunately, the Coronavirus screwed everything up
>>>> (still
>>>> have not heard from the computer guy) in the meantime, I was told that
>>>> Amazon had USB CD-DVD drives that would do the same thing!  So with the
>>>> help
>>>> of a good friend of mine, I found one on Amazon (is a Dell, but don't
>>>> remember the model number) is supposed to be able to play CDs, burn CDs
>>>> and
>>>> rip.the whole thing!  I got the new CD-DVD drive a couple of days ago;
>>>> this
>>>> afternoon, a friend of mine who helps take care of my yard came by to
>>>> cut
>>>> the grass; he had this CD that he wanted me to listen to!  So I decided
>>>> I'd
>>>> put this new drive through its paces and see what it'd do; I put the CD
>>>> into
>>>> the drive and.Winamp did come up and the CD started to play!  So here's
>>>> where the "fun" begins: I decided I'd rip it to my computer!  I brought
>>>> up
>>>> Cdex, expecting to see the tracks to be ripped and.nothing!  Zero!
>>>> What
>>>> am
>>>> I supposed to do to make Cdex understand that I want to rip this CD?
>>>> Am
>>>> I
>>>> forgetting something?  As best as I remember, when I used to rip CDs
>>>> with
>>>> the original drive that was in the computer, I could just pop that bad
>>>> boy
>>>> in there, bring up Cdex and it was ready to rock and roll; not so with
>>>> this
>>>> new CD-DVD drive!  Did I buy the wrong thing?  I was surely thinking
>>>> that
>>>> this little USB Drive would do what I needed; it said that it would
>>>> burn
>>>> and
>>>> rip!  So what am I missing here?  If someone can give me instruction
>>>> here,
>>>> I'd sure appreciate it!
>>>>
>>>> Tom Kaufman
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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