Yesterday, Windows Media Player happily played my mp3 music files. Today, I get the error message in the question title. WHen I select OK to play the file, I get the second error message that says 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. Nothing has changed since yesterday. I am using WMP 11.0.6000.6344 and Vista Ultimate.
None of my other players (itunes) plays the file either. I have run a complete virus and malware scan and came up with nothinh. Suggestions?
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Thanks. Gspot says the file is empty (0 bytes) but properties indicates it is not empty. The file was downloaded, was not renamed and played perfectly in WMP one day, but not the next day. This applies to most of my files. Old ones that I jad before play correctly. The new files were downloaded from a.b.sounds.mp3.
Why would they play pefrectly one day and the stop playing the next day?
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by: MeretePosted on 2008-04-10 at 20:24:34ID: 21331208
Hi, if you have downloaded or taken this mp3 from somewhere it may have a problem as indicated by you error.
>>The file you are attempting to play has an extension (mp3) that does not match the file format.
Playing the file may result in unexpected behavior.
Your question implies this to all music files?
Or just some?
Has it been renamed? Is this an itunes track from a library from an ipod?
Drop them onto gspot and find out what it is.
http://www.windowsmoviemak
http://www.videohelp.com/t