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My computer plays CDs without any problems with Windows Media Player.

I will just have to wait until the VLC coding is improved to play CDs.

Thank you for your suggestion. This does not work for me as VLC crashes to the desk top right after I click Play.
Am I right to assume that I will have to live with the version of VLC that I have with its limitations on playing a CD until someone fixes the VLC code?

The question still remains how do I fix this bug, if it can be fixed? Would uninstalling VLC and downloading the latest version of VLC resolve the bug problem or would this cause more problems than it would resolve? If this option is suggested, I would appreciate a link to download the latest versio...

I have tried the Tools > Preferences method a number of times with no success.
So there must be a bug of some type in VLC.
"it's quite likely a bug in VLC that they need to fix" My question is who are "they" and how are "they" going to fix the "bug"?

Thank you, I was able to revert back to the white screen. Since my last post, I tried again to reset the preferences using the command prompt method. What ever I accomplished, had no effect on playing a CD using VLC media player On occasion, VLC media player will now crash with a crash notice at the...

I followed your instructions to reset preferences the manual way and I could not get to step 2 to get a command prompt to type the exe. file. On clicking on "open" the computer screen flashed and reverted back to Outlook.Even worse, I now have a black VLC home screen rather than the usual ...

Please let me know if these work.

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https://jpst.it/3wLpd

Can you read either of these?
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if I open VLC media player from the desktop, the CD will not play and the computer ends up at the desktop every time. If I open VLC media player from "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\", the end results are unreliable. That is, sometimes the CD will play, other times VLC media player will not...

Thank you for your reply. I tried copying the command line using the c:/ prompt and the computer could not find the file. It would be appreciated if you could give me some instructions on to run VLC from the command prompt with the enclosed command line which would include on how to access the "...

Thank you for your response.
I followed your instructions and when I clicked the play button the computer immediately returned to the desktop and did not play the CD.
There was no VLC crash report (pop up).

Windows 10, 64 bit. VLC media player version 3.0.20 Vetinari. VLC media player will not play any CD which includes "store bought" and "home made" When I click on the play button, the computer immediately returns to the desk top every time. This does not harm the computer software...