This is an old issue and happened on the 598 as well and there was never a resolution for it. It's also quite different from the orginal statement of popping in a disc and playing it by default. It was very frustrating and certainly didn't help life time on burning up your drive. Not sure what the G98 does. My G91 spins the drive every time on power up but it does not play it and spins back down. But I sure wish it wouldn't spin it at all.

If you disconnect the 598 from COMs and make it a controller it will run independently. However the IR codes are the same and I'm not sure if there is a way of seperating the IR codes (i.e. like a seperate zone or something).

The only resolution was to take the disc out. Which made dealing with CD's the Meridian way all the more frustrating. My final resolution was to get a squeezebox and a PS3 and get rid of the 598. Problem solved with extra cash in my pocket.


- Fiddler (IMHO)

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