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I am sometimes listening to something on Windows Media Player while simultaneously batch-copying CDs with another program. When i insert a CD into the drive, WMP inexplicably stops whatever it is playing now and plays the newly inserted CD.
How to disable this abhorrent behaviour? Autorun is set to “always ask me”.
I am currently using Windows 10 10041, but the problem appeared on Windows 8.1 as well.
kinokijuf
Posted 2015-03-20T19:03:12.223
Reputation: 7 734
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Please try copy/pasting the following into Notepad, save it as DisableMediaPlayerAutoPlay.reg, double click this file to add it to the registry, and restart WMP:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences]
"CDAutoPlay"=dword:00000000
This will however only disable autoplay in WMP's Library mode. WMP in Now Playing mode will still automatically play CDs when inserted, I don't know if there's a way around that.
Tim De Baets
Posted 2015-03-20T19:03:12.223
Reputation: 882
Ehh. Found that in library mode it will not stop irregardless of the existence of this registry entry. Downvoted only because it gives bogus advice. – kinokijuf – 2015-03-21T18:07:31.153
For now i will remember to switch to library tab as a work-around. – kinokijuf – 2015-03-21T18:14:58.643
Apologies, I wasn't aware that the registry change didn't have any effect (it probably did though for earlier versions of WMP). Thanks for reporting back. – Tim De Baets – 2015-03-29T19:30:27.710