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Q148798: Windows 3.1 [MCI] CD Audio Driver Available

Article: Q148798
Product(s): Microsoft Home Kids Products
Version(s): WINDOWS:1.0,3.1
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 21-DEC-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Scholastic's Magic School Bus series: Explores the Ocean for Windows, version 1.0 
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 
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SUMMARY
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The Microsoft Download Center contains the MCI CD Audio driver for Windows 3.1.
The file is named MCICDA.EXE. Magic School Bus Explores the Ocean requires the
MCI Audio driver to play sounds correctly. In addition, this driver allows your
computer to play music from compact discs that are in the Compact Disk-Digital
Audio (CD-DA; Redbook) format.

For more information about problems MCICDA.EXE corrects, see the following
article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q139659 MSB Ocean: ErrMsg: CD Audio MCI Driver Not Installed

MORE INFORMATION
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The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download
Center:

  Mcicda.exe
  (http://download.microsoft.com/download/oceans/Utility/1/W31/EN-US/Mcicda.exe)

For additional information about how to download Microsoft Support files, click
the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q119591 How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

Microsoft used the most current virus detection software available on the date of
posting to scan this file for viruses. Once posted, the file is housed on secure
servers that prevent any unauthorized changes to the file.

Additional query words: multi media multimedia multi-media mmtitles homekids win3x softlib homekid msbocean msb ocean oceans cd-audio sound sounds

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbHomeProdSearch kbWin3xSearch kbZNotKeyword kbKidsSearch kbZNotKeyword3 kbWin310 kbScholasticOcean kbMSBSearch
Version           : WINDOWS:1.0,3.1

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