If your Xbox 360 console can't play a disc, or if the disc drive is stuck in an open or closed position, we’ll walk you through some steps to try to fix the problem. Find the section below that best describes the issue with your Xbox 360 disc drive.

CD audio is digital stereophonic audio that was digitized at a sampling rate of 44,100 kHz using a 16-bit sample size, providing excellent fidelity for reproduction of all types of sounds, including music. When you are playing CD audio, the digital-to-analog conversion is performed by circuits in the CD-ROM player. In non- multimedia systems ...

1. Check your speaker output. 2. Run the audio troubleshooter. 3. Verify that all Windows Updates are installed. 4. Check your cables, plugs, jacks, volume, speaker, and headphone connections. 5. Check sound settings. 6. Fix your audio drivers. 7. Set your audio device as the default device. 8. Turn off audio enhancements. 9. Restart Audio Services

Windows 7 Media Player interrupts playback to change media when disc inserted. Describes a behavior where Windows Media Player 12 stops playing a video and plays an inserted Audio CD on a computer that is running Windows 7. Provides how to work around this behavior.

Solutions. Collapse all. Check the Xbox status page. If you see any services with alerts, expand the service, scroll down to Notifications, and sign in to receive a message when the service is up and running again. Xbox status page. Not hearing the other person after joining the party.

Press the Xbox button on your controller to open the guide. Select Profile & system > Settings > General > Volume & audio output. Select the Audio setup option under Advanced. Highlight the audio setup option you wish to use and then press the A button to begin the audio test.

In Windows Media Player, you can play audio CDs, data CDs, and data DVDs that contain music or video files (also known as media CDs). You can also play video CDs (VCDs), which are similar to DVDs, although the video quality isn't as high.

Symptoms. You may experience one of the following symptoms: A Recording tab does not appear in the properties of your CD-R/CD-RW drive. You cannot copy files to the CD-R/CD-RW drive. You receive the following error message: The disk in the drive is not a writable CD or it is full. Cause.

Solutions. Collapse all. Check your TV and HDMI connections. Press the Xbox button on your controller to open the guide. Select Profile & system > Settings > General > TV & display options. Select Video fidelity & overscan. Under Display, select HDMI. Run the Audio setup tool. Press the Xbox button on your controller to open the guide.

Select Profile & system > Settings > General > Volume & audio output. Under Speaker audio, you can adjust the following settings: HDMI audio - Keep this set at Stereo uncompressed unless your HDMI cable is plugged into a receiver that can process 5.1 or 7.1 uncompressed signals.