WMP11 for XP wont play wma, mp3

This is rather strange. As I understand wma and wmv files are specificly
designed (or at the very least are meant to) to play on Media Player. For
some reason, whenever I try to play a wma file, Media Player 11 helpfully
points out that it cannot play the file because it is missing the codec.
Further more, wmv files move but no sound comes out. The case of the missing
codecs does not stop there but proceeds to crush all my hopes of ever hearing
music again by not allowing me to play mp3 files either.

I assume that other file types won't play either, however I don't have
anyother soundfile types at hand.

I have heared that many people running Vista are having problems with WMP11
but I'm running XP!

Can anybody help or at least tell me what's wrong?

"Besurkfury" wrote:

> This is rather strange. As I understand wma and wmv files are specificly
> designed (or at the very least are meant to) to play on Media Player. For
> some reason, whenever I try to play a wma file, Media Player 11 helpfully
> points out that it cannot play the file because it is missing the codec.
> Further more, wmv files move but no sound comes out. The case of the missing
> codecs does not stop there but proceeds to crush all my hopes of ever hearing
> music again by not allowing me to play mp3 files either.
>
> I assume that other file types won't play either, however I don't have
> anyother soundfile types at hand.
>
> I have heared that many people running Vista are having problems with WMP11
> but I'm running XP!
>
> Can anybody help or at least tell me what's wrong?

I Have had he same probelem sice i brought my computer with windows media
player 9 in 2003 and there is no help page or anything for this so i can get
it sorted.

"Besurkfury" wrote:

> This is rather strange. As I understand wma and wmv files are specificly
> designed (or at the very least are meant to) to play on Media Player. For
> some reason, whenever I try to play a wma file, Media Player 11 helpfully
> points out that it cannot play the file because it is missing the codec.
> Further more, wmv files move but no sound comes out. The case of the missing
> codecs does not stop there but proceeds to crush all my hopes of ever hearing
> music again by not allowing me to play mp3 files either.
>
> I assume that other file types won't play either, however I don't have
> anyother soundfile types at hand.
>
> I have heared that many people running Vista are having problems with WMP11
> but I'm running XP!
>
> Can anybody help or at least tell me what's wrong?

"Besurkfury" <Besurkfury@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:74A39D56-0481-4E26-966F-FFB4EE4D3D27@microsoft.com...
> This is rather strange. As I understand wma and wmv files are specificly
> designed (or at the very least are meant to) to play on Media Player. For
> some reason, whenever I try to play a wma file, Media Player 11 helpfully
> points out that it cannot play the file because it is missing the codec.
> Further more, wmv files move but no sound comes out. The case of the
> missing
> codecs does not stop there but proceeds to crush all my hopes of ever
> hearing
> music again by not allowing me to play mp3 files either.
>
> I assume that other file types won't play either, however I don't have
> anyother soundfile types at hand.
>
> I have heared that many people running Vista are having problems with
> WMP11
> but I'm running XP!
>
> Can anybody help or at least tell me what's wrong?


What version of Windows XP are you using and SP? Apparently WMP 11 will only
run on Windows XP running SP2 installed and later. Maybe try uninstalling
and reinstalling WMP 11 and check the sound drivers are up to date also. I'm
running Vista Ultimate and using WMP 11 with no problems with these files.



God Bless... :-)

You could try converting files to "m3u" files which WMP does recognise. I
found a website "Switch Sound File Converter" which was provided by NCH
Software which
lets you download for free and changes most file formats. Its easy to use.
You simply add to the list all the files(songs) you want to convert. In the
box near the bottom indicate you want to convert to ""m3u" (it gives a whole
list) and simply press convert. Store the converted music in your "My Music"
folder and WMP picks them up from there. They were in my "Recently Added"
Folder when I went back into WMP.
Hope this helps. There may be simpler ways someone else can suggest, but I
found this to work.

Marydoll

"Besurkfury" wrote:

> This is rather strange. As I understand wma and wmv files are specificly
> designed (or at the very least are meant to) to play on Media Player. For
> some reason, whenever I try to play a wma file, Media Player 11 helpfully
> points out that it cannot play the file because it is missing the codec.
> Further more, wmv files move but no sound comes out. The case of the missing
> codecs does not stop there but proceeds to crush all my hopes of ever hearing
> music again by not allowing me to play mp3 files either.
>
> I assume that other file types won't play either, however I don't have
> anyother soundfile types at hand.
>
> I have heared that many people running Vista are having problems with WMP11
> but I'm running XP!
>
> Can anybody help or at least tell me what's wrong?

Sadly for the poster, M3U is a playlist file - it's plain text and
contains no audio information of its own - it just points to the
actual media file location(s) on disk or on the network.

Thanks for posting though !
Cheers - Neil

On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 11:26:01 -0700, marydoll
<marydoll@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>
>You could try converting files to "m3u" files which WMP does recognise. I
>found a website "Switch Sound File Converter" which was provided by NCH
>Software which
>lets you download for free and changes most file formats. Its easy to use.
>You simply add to the list all the files(songs) you want to convert. In the
>box near the bottom indicate you want to convert to ""m3u" (it gives a whole
>list) and simply press convert. Store the converted music in your "My Music"
>folder and WMP picks them up from there. They were in my "Recently Added"
>Folder when I went back into WMP.
>Hope this helps. There may be simpler ways someone else can suggest, but I
>found this to work.
>
>Marydoll
>
>"Besurkfury" wrote:
>
>> This is rather strange. As I understand wma and wmv files are specificly
>> designed (or at the very least are meant to) to play on Media Player. For
>> some reason, whenever I try to play a wma file, Media Player 11 helpfully
>> points out that it cannot play the file because it is missing the codec.
>> Further more, wmv files move but no sound comes out. The case of the missing
>> codecs does not stop there but proceeds to crush all my hopes of ever hearing
>> music again by not allowing me to play mp3 files either.
>>
>> I assume that other file types won't play either, however I don't have
>> anyother soundfile types at hand.
>>
>> I have heared that many people running Vista are having problems with WMP11
>> but I'm running XP!
>>
>> Can anybody help or at least tell me what's wrong?
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