Re: Play m4a in WMP10

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From: Chris (cal2002a_at_hotmail.NOSPAM.com)
Date: 01/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:39:36 -0600

I don't know what you are talking about. If it plays in WMP 6.4 and not WMP
10 it's a problem with 3ivX (or whatever DS decoder you have installed that
can decode MP4/M4A) How you got that you "positively cant play it in WMP10"
is beyond me. This problem has NOTHING to do with WMP. WMP can't decode,
WMP it DirectShow based, it can uses third party DS decoders to "enable"
playback.

Those files don't use standard ID3 tags, there is almost no point of trying
to get them into your Library. They can not be displayed under All Music,
and they will not have Album, Artist, track info at all in the Library.
It's hit or miss getting them added to anything. If it works it work, if
not you are stuck trying to get it to work. It's not supported under WMP
and it's not supposed to work 100%. 

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"Dardruba" <dardruba@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:32258B1C-E01F-4263-AB68-FDD90C1FA7F7@microsoft.com...
> Oh Dear, I'm going round in circles here, a bit like that French film La 
> Ronde.
>
> I was given an old tune by a friend, its in m4a which was new to me. It
> plays in WMP 6.4.
> I checked on this forum and found Chris recommending the 3ivx download for
> users with WMP10.
> I downloaded it but it didnt play in 10 nor could I put it in the WMP 
> library.
>
> I asked on the 3ivx forum and got an offensive response saying they dont
> condone stealing referring to the Slsk source. But nothing else. Having
> explained I was a newbie and didnt understand all this stuff, I was 
> ignored.
>
> I literally spent a day at the pc exploring the web trying to find a
> procedure for handling this file and any future m4a files I may obtain. 
> One
> day reading technical stuff where I only understood 1 word in 100.
> I saw a suggestion where one user was invited to redownload the 3ivx
> download ,I did that 3 more times.without achieving anything.
>
> So I came back to this forum with my question.
> Now I'm told by Chris positively that I cant play it in WMP10, I cant add 
> it
> to the Library there and I cant add m4a to the file list in Tools/Options 
> for
> the future.
> He ends by referring me back to the 3ivx forum.
> But they were rude to me and ignored me, so I was rude back and accused 
> them
> of being too bound up by the technical side and they were unhelpful to a
> newbie.
> I'm reluctant to go back there.
>
> But where else am I going to find information and procedures to follow for
> future occasions when I find I need to deal with m4a files.
> I read somewhere there is a Registry Edit to add the .m4a extension to WMP
> and somewhere else I read of a user playing files in WMP10 in the 'Other
> Media' section.
> If someone can point me to these topics I have a friend with the skill to 
> do
> it for me.

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