autorun???

[jadd]

i am new with all this computer stuff,but i am trying.
i would like to know where or how i could put some autorun on cd's that i want to make.

thanks jadd

 

[Jon X]

I'm not exactly sure what this has to do with Recording Techniques.. unless you misconstrued that title to mean recording CDs, which I guess is understandable, lol.

I think all you have to do is create an autorun.inf file and put something like the following in it:

[AutoRun]
OPEN='whatever'
ICON='whatever'

The OPEN= will run whatever EXE or any other launchable program. The ICON= is what displays as the CD-ROM drive icon, in case you wanted a custom icon and were distributing software or something like that. There's no quotes or anything around the file name or path you put after OPEN= or ICON=.

Oh, autorun.inf has to also be at the root of the CD. Microsoft basically states that the OPEN= line just points to the autorun.exe file, which would be like whatever setup.exe or install.exe you would want to autorun. In that case, you might have to actually rename your .exe to autorun.exe on the CD, and then point to this in the OPEN= line. That's the only way I've ever done it, but I think it works with whatever you put in the OPEN= line. If the file you are launching at CD insertion isn't at the root, you obviosuly have to put the path to any sub-directories it's in for autorun to find it.

 

[boardman]

Jadd,

If you just burn a audio cd and your running win98 or above, it will start playing as soon as you put your cd in. If you go to my computer, control panel, system, device manager, cdrom, properties, setting and make sure there is a check in auto insert detect or notification, it will start playing with what ever player you have set up as your default. You don't need autorun. If you want to check this out, put a store bought CD in your drive, then go to window explorer and open up the cd, you won't find any autorun files or anyother files but cd audio unless you put in an interactive cd. Then it will have and autorun.

boardman

 

[Jon X]

You are correct if he was talking about an audio CD, but he didn't specify and he did actually mention autorun, so I gave him the way to do a data CD because I assumed everyone would know that an audio CD will autorun by default if the operating system is setup for that. At that point it's not based upon the CD itself, but it's a property of the operating system. I guess I shouldn't assume.