ok, now i'm replying to my own post... how pathetic is that? *grin*
upon closer examination, i find more interesting info.
using windows media player 9, default with winxpprosp2, and with a firewall, zonealarm, not allowing access to the net, various commercial CD's have different behavior and info popping into WMP. some using random and various CD's, i get some of the following behavior. all CD's play both in my drive and also a cheapy, no-frills, portable diskman-alike.
"destiny's child/'the writing's on the wall'" appears as a data disk in the drive; the name comes up in the "my computer - explorer" window, but WMP still wants to access the net to get song info
"lifescapes/'celtic romances'" appears as an audio disk - WMP also wants to access the net to get any song info, but gets it all right away when allowed net access
"deee-lite/'dewdrops in the garden'" which i just recreated from mp3's exactly as the original album, appears as an audio disk - WMP wants to access the net, but comes up with NO song/album/artist info even though all of this was entered both in the mp3's, into roxio's info fields, and as much of same was entered into burn express (two different CD's, one created with each program)
so...? more ideas folks?
Regards, -A. Freeman