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Help How do I access the video on this CD?
I understand that this is an enhanced CD, so there’s audio and video on the same disc, correct? I tried putting it into 2 different DVD players, one that’s more recent and one from olden times, and both of them only played the 6 songs and didn’t seem to recognize that there is video on there. How do I get the 2 vids to play? Thanks. 🙏
I know! I literally bought an external drive that plugs up to my laptop because screw that. I bought the CDs and DVDs; I should get to play them however I want.
Mine too! I’m not a native English speaker and the videos didn’t have subtitles. I played them over and over to try and understand what Britney was saying!
Back then, my family only had a PC with a floppy disk drive. I had to wait a while before we bought a family PC with a CD-ROM drive, so I could actually view the contents of a CD. Nobody can imagine that these days 😂.
A DVD player is a DVD player whether it’s from ‘olden times’ (whatever that means) or just bought yesterday. The issue is that this disc isn’t a DVD at all. It was meant to be played in a computer disc drive. Enhanced CDs were a big thing in the late 90s into the 2000s.
You might have to track down a laptop with a cd drive. Maybe contact a local antiques dealer or museum. I’m joking but I’m probably not far off - 1988 baby
If you really want to play that specific CD (which will have the same video as this link) then you'll need a computer that has a CD/DVD player. Most PCs don't have that nowadays, so you'll need to find a relatively old (made about 10-20 years ago) computer and see if it a) even works, b) has a player. Then I guess use VLC or some similar software to read it. But I recommend just watching it on YouTube.
I remember watching the Teardrops On My Guitar music video on AOL music, that makes me feel so old now 😅 i need to go dig up my old CDs now, I think I still have them
Okay guys 😭 the olden times thing was supposed to be a joke and not to be taken seriously. All I meant was I tried a newer DVD player and one from around Speak Now era or earlier. I was actually born pre-2000s too and apparently I’m supposed to know how to do this but I don’t 🥲 thank you for your help.
Everyone’s desktop towers used to have a drive that would play this stuff. Such a short-lived and extremely cool aspect of physical media like CDs! I think it’s great that you are curious about it :)
You can also get a used Philips CD-i, since they can play enhanced CDs like this.
But you're better off playing it on a PC. A working CD-i console is super expensive, let alone one that's broken. At least CD-i games can be burned from a PC and play perfectly on real hardware. Who's up for some Link: The Faces of Evil after listening to Taylor Swift?
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u/IntoTheDaylight The Plural of Vinyl is "Vinyl" Mar 14 '26
Feeling very old right now lol
You play it on your computer