Unable to play Old CD on windows 7

Hello logo mate have you tried putting the disk in and then go to Computer and click on the optical drive to see what is in there? It should by rights automatically play a CD because I don't think there should be any incompatibility issues with the recording.

It might be an idea to run these my friend
SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker
Disk Check < if necessary include the /f switch and if this does not make any improvement then just run this switch instead /r in the command line as per Option2
Run these in safe mode and the sfc often best run for two to three runs – you can leave out the /r switch in ckdsk if you feel it not necessary

if no fix then these

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AdwCleaner Download
ADW download from bleeping computer delete any rubbish found with the malware scans
(NB If you are running Kaspersky as the main AV then it might need disabling it when trying ADW because it does not like it at times)

Yes John but in my WMP there is an option for rip formats and the quality of the rip. I have to admit I wasn't aware of the CDA format stuff or if the CD the OP has is in that format.

yeah when he said the files were 1kb

Yes mate I should have twigged that when reading it

That computer should be able play audio CDs and video DVDs just fine. Something is amiss somewhere. I'm wondering if installing free version VLC would be a great "second opinion"; it VLC works, then simply leave WMP alone for another time.

Has anyone considered the CD may be defective. If it was one that was burned by someone, a 1994 disc could be bad. There are many known cases of older CD's no longer able to play.

Seeing "1KB" files is what a standard audio CD will show with the file explorer.

Here is what one of my "valid" Audio CD's shows.

As I understand things, sizewise, cda file should be ± equal sized as equivalent wav file, '10 megs a minute' (±). Showing cda sizes as 1 KB indicates something amiss. I inserted a music cd in my (XP!!) comp & file sizes show as (3 minute song = 30 megs, 8 min song = 80 megs), etc, 'plus or minus'

I could be wrong, , , ,

What I show is for a VALID audio CD. The files would have to be "ripped" from the CD to wav files to see the approx. 10 megs per minute file size.

I have a recording studio and do a lot of Audio CD burning for clients.