Re: .mp3, .wma no longer plays - Vista

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That would be your support request number.

You could give my name (zach robinson) to the person you're working with at
MS and they could contact me. I likely know the people working on this area
anyways.

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"Pierre Henri" <PierreHenri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello Zach:

Sorry... I don't know what an SRX # is. I work for www.simulearn.net

Thank you,

PH



"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


What's your SRX number? Who are you working with?

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"Terry" <newsgrp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Pierre,

sp2 busted WMP11 for me and now unable to play wma and wmv. Removing
sp2
fixes things OK. Reinstalling sp2 breaks it.

I have taken out a free support case with Microsoft which you can do,
once
only, for a service pack. They have been working on it since June with
me,
hopefully I will have an answer soon. See my post started 15/06/09
10:49,
currently watching your post.

Regards

"Pierre Henri" <PierreHenri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello Neil:

Thank you for your reply. What is odd is that was working fine with
MP3
or
WMA / WMV before itune or maybe SP2. So it does not recognize the
codec
and I
have not been able to figure out how to repair the player without
reinstalling windows.

Pierre

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:


Hmm that's an oddball one then. The error message (text) should
correspond to one of these sections (which say nearly the same thing
:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/9series/playererrors.aspx#c00d1199_0x00000000
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/9series/playererrors.aspx#c00d119A_0x00000000

I checked with Quicktime by taking known-good MP3 and WAV files then
renaming them to various other file types, to see how it reacted.

Renaming to m4a, wav or mp4 all caused Quicktime to reject the file -
so it seems happy to reject files where the contents don't match the
file name extension. That's a test to ensure you don't have some
other
content renamed to .mp3

So I guess the only thing I can think of is you might be accessing
the
files online from a web server, and the website is telling WMP a
different thing to the actual file type (MP3) and that Quicktime is
ignoring it ?


If that's not the case - where did the files come from in the first
place, does it affect all MP3s you download from the internet (or
only
some) and are any other audio types - like WAV or WMA files -
affected
as well ?


HTH
Cheers - Neil

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:25:01 -0700, Pierre Henri
<PierreHenri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Hello Neil:

MP3 and others files are already assigned to WMP. So it still does
not
work.

Thank you for the suggestion though,

Pierre

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:06:01 -0700, Pierre Henri <Pierre
Henri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I don't know if this is a coincidence, but since i-tune has been
installed, I
get the following error message when I want to play any .wma or
.mp3
fles.

Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not
support the
file type or might not support the codec that was used to
compress
the file.

As an FYI, the same .mp3 play fine in Quicktime.

.wav files work fine.
I went to the troubleshoot page, but no luck. What is the
solution
to solve
this?


If you go to Vistas Control Panel and find Default Programs - is
the
error resolved by setting WMP as either default for all file types
it
can play, or by specifically setting MP3 files to associated with
WMP?

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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