mp3 and wma formats

What version of Windows are you currently using?

System details are:

Microsoft Windows XP, Professional, Version 2002

I'm sorry, but I don't know whether XP Pro had such a limitation back then. Have you been updating with SP2 (and now SP3)?

Windows Media Player certainly plays .wma's in versions updated to SP2 & SP3.

Also Windows ME on my old laptop (now very old) plays .wma files (I've just tried it). I find it hard to believe that there is a version of XP that won't play them.

Maybe you just need to make sure Windows Media Player (which comes with Windows) is accessible. What happens when you double-click on a .wpa file?

Greetings nvmani,

wma files are the product of using windows media codecs, any XP version has the capability to open .wma files.

You may need to set windows media player as the primary player in windows. Or right clk the wma. file then select 'open with' windows media player.

cheers

I agree that your system SHOULD play the wma files easily, but as a work-around solution, you might also try converting the files as needed. I can't speak to the integrity of the conversion, but if all you are after is audio quality, I have had good success.

Here is one link from download.com that is viable and free, and there are many others available from a quick search in Google.

Good luck

http://www.download.com/Free-Mp3-Wma-Converter/3000-2140_4-10442362.html

Go onto the Microsoft website and download the latest version of Windows Media Player. Install same.

That should take care of the problem.

Good luck and keep us posted

Ari

Orpheuse

All above are correct of course but it may also be that somehow the pointed program to play this file has been altered.

Go into the folder options and change "open this program with" function to windows media player IF IT IS WRONG.

Agreed Case491.

I downloaded a version of real player some time ago and it automatically set itself as the default software for media files - I then couldn't play some MP4 or wma files so I had to reset program defaults to windows media player...

I use Win XP pro with all updates installed so it must be something simple as this...

John.

It is one of the consequences of windows and 3rd party programming. You get something of the internet and it wants to fight for supremacy. The user always looses, bad windows.

In a world without walls, one does not need windows.

Windows Media Player has been the resident player program since '95. It was designed to play WMA and WMF. To play other formats, like MP3, Aiff, MP4, etc you need a CODEX, which is an MS acronym for CODER/DECODER.

Go to this site and download KLITE CODEX Pack, a free patch.

http://download2easy.powered-by.zango.com/?a671ae7af4/ga671a876f5&s=http%3A//www.download2easy.com/download18.html%3Fgclid%3DCJP9u6LdwZMCFQIqswodN1KvCg

You will have to enter cut and paste the address into the address line at the top of your page.

Set Restore point, install, reboot and off you go.

Good Luck

Ari (Orpheuse)

Windows media player, or at least the latest versions, download and install the necessary codecs automatically when you ask it to play a new format of media.

There's only a few media formats that need paying for and I think most of them are supplied free with DVD player software etc...

John.

DIVX can be hard to find for free.

Ari

(Orpheuse)

Ohhhh so that's how its done eh??

Simple when you know how?

John.