My CD ejected from the computer, but Windows Media Player was still playing music. How is this possible?

Question

I was listening to a CD at work today, when it suddenly ejected from the computer. Strangely, the audio continued to play without a CD. I picked up the CD with my hand, and continued to listen to the audio.

My computer at work only has a CD-ROM, and I'm pretty sure that it can't rip audio files off of CDs. Is there some other way that Windows Media Player can temporarily store the audio files onto a computer, and play audio after a cd is ejected?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Advanced media players use a buffer. It's the same idea as uh "jog proof" walkmans.



It reads ahead, and puts the song into memory. That way, if the CD skips or something happens it will continue to play for sometime. I think Media Player will actually go quite a long time w/o the CD.



Just to clarify, yes, it can rip files. They all can (it would just be slower if it's an older CD-ROM)



No, it does not store them in temporary files. That would be an obvious violation of copywright laws to have a persistent copy of it without user authorizaiton.

Yes, it does store it in RAM.

Answer 2

you will have burned it as an information disc. maximum CD gamers do not study information discs as they're meant for desktops. And besides, maximum CD gamers do not study WMA. you ought to set WMP to burn each thing as mp3s. yet in spite of this there are nonetheless some Cd gamers that may not study mp3s. What you're able to do is in simple terms pop a sparkling CD and you gets on the spot that provide you with the alternative of burning a CD. elect to burn it as an audio Cd and then in simple terms drag and drop your song information from the song folder to the open window.

Answer 3

yup those files are located in your local temps folder



thats where all temporary information gets stored, and later needs to be deleted

but in that folder it also contains some important file wich i suggest you dont try deleting unless you know what they actualy are



if you ever want to clean local temps folder, download a program to do it

because after a while that folder builds up and starts wasting gbs of your computer

Answer 4

Caching

Answer 5

If you have a lot of ram, it was probably music that had been pre-written to that, and so, it kept playing till it was done.

Answer 6

any cd drive can rip music, which is what it did.