It's not really by choice since my comp. came installed with a CD burner and it's defaulted to windows media.
That takes about 10 seconds to fix, and your burner itself has nothing to do with it.
Though I have no complaints. And it doesn't recognize PCE/Turbo games as CDs, so I can't rip them (it does recognize Sega CD games since they were intended to be listened to as CDs).
Well, I don't see how Sega CD games were any more intended to be listened to as CDs than PC Engine games were. Anyway I've never had a problem with a computer recognizing PCE games as audio CDs. That's what they always show up as. I haven't done it in a while though. Let me test it:
OK, I'm listening to Tengai Makyo II in my Mac mini, just like I did with my Win95 machine ages ago. iTunes extracted the track just fine too. I think you guys must have drives that have some sort of issue with off formats or something.
UPDATE!
OK, I just tried this on my friend's new laptop, and it refused to play the thing in WMP, or Winamp. Wow, what BS. This is the first I've ever heard of this problem. I guess I have to blame XP because this was not the case with older versions of Windows.