How to play CD-Audio with Zoom Player?

Zoom Player is the most Powerful, Flexible and Customizable DVD and Media Player for the Windows PC platform. Using this powerful Smart Play technology, more image, audio and video media formats play with less hassle, increased stability and better performance.

How to play CD-Audio with Zoom Player?

By default, windows does not come with a CDDA reader (Digital CD Audio Playback).

In order to play CD Audio, you must have a CDDA Reader filter. Presently, the best solution is the Open Sourced filter from Gabest.

Download Gabest CD Audio Filter (Windows XP/2000/2003/Vista):
MD5: 384391BAC628258F548183F6A4ECAB8D

Download Gabest CD Audio Filter (Windows 95/98/ME):
MD5: EF267CBD3965A2B12C95A8853830D325

Why do some MP3 files play badly (or show a wrong duration)?

The default MP3 decoder that comes with windows is old and doesn't support VBR or high bitrate MP3 files properly. They may not play, show a wrong duration or just sound weird.

Ever since the early versions of Windows (Windows 95 OSR2 I believe), Windows came with a built-in MP3 decoder. However, this filter may be a bit limited. It may not play MP3 files that contain images in their headers and ALBW wrapped files, and it may show the wrong duration for VBR MP3 files.

Milenko "DCoder" Mitrovic has written an alternative filter which fixes these issues which you can download from this page. This filter only effects ".MP3" file playback and does not conflict with embedded MP3 files (such as MP3 streams in AVI/Matroska files).

Download DCoder Bass Source Filter v1.10:
MD5: 26487FE3E8F50ADC9677D10429B5F2AD