My driver is 1.4.7, which I think was the last released for OS9.x. I've been
trying to track down other versions, but no luck as yet.

f

on 3/9/03 4:35 PM, Tab Julius at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 
> We've only had one report of this from someone else (or maybe it was you?);
> what we have found was that Apple released a series of CD drivers
> particularly with OS/9 G4's that were problematic.  The worst offenders
> were versions 1.34 and 1.35 - requests to play tracks might be ignored, or
> might play but with no audio.  Upgrading to Apple CD driver 1.38 or higher
> resolved the problem.
> 
> Shortly afterwards, OS/X started getting introduced.  It's entirely
> possible that later drivers from Apple resolved most of their earlier
> issues but had some sort of stopping problem.  CD Pro hadn't changed much
> since it was introduced for Director 5, I think.  Certainly the code has
> been stable for the last few years, so any new problems are backward
> incompatibilities on the Apple side.  During the OS/X rewrite we can
> probably shift to a different playback technique, as we probably don't have
> to support older Macs any more, and maybe that will resolve the problem, as
> I suspect Apple is having trouble doing backward compatibility itself.
> 
> At any rate, see what version of the CD driver you have, and see if you can
> get a much newer one (or, possibly, a much older one).  It'd be interesting
> to know if that resolves your problem.
> 
> - Tab
> 
> 
> At 03:42 PM 3/9/03, Fletcher Moore wrote:
>> I stripped all that out to get at the core of the problem I'm facing. I know
>> the CD is playing on my system (I can hear it...). To take an even simpler
>> look, in the Director message window, if I issue:
>> 
>> global cd
>> Play(cd)
>> 
>> And then wait until I hear the CD playing and (attempt to) issue:
>> 
>> Stop(cd)
>> 
>> Well, it takes sometimes 25 or 30 seconds before the cursor will even budge
>> to allow me to type "stop(cd)." The CD plays the whole time, but the system
>> will not respond to any input. So far this appears to be unique to Mac OS9.
>> 
>> f
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