How can I fix sound problems in Windows Media Player?Dave, I'm going a bit bonkers. Every time I try to play a CD or watch a DVD on my WinXP system in Windows Media Player, the sound fades out and I'm left without any audio track. I've tried jiggling my speaker cables, reseating my sound card, restarting Windows Media Player (or even my PC), and even sacrificing an old Abba CD to the Microsoft Gods, but nothing helps. How do I fix this sort of sound device problems? First off, sacrificing an Abba CD is always a good idea whenever you have any problems with Windows Media Player! In fact, even when you don't have any problems... (I'm kidding, I actually like the perpetually perky Swedish foursome) As you suspected from your attempted fixes, it really sounds like Windows Media Player doesn't like your sound card or controller. I checked at the Microsoft tech support site and here's what they suggest as ways to fix this frustrating problem:
If you're still hosed, then run the Sound Device Troubleshooter by choosing Tools -> Options within Windows Media Player, then click "Speakers" on the Devices tab, then click Advanced (still with me?) then choose the Hardware tab and choose Troubleshooting after you've selected your own particular hardware. Still no joy? Check out the Web site for the manufacturer of your sound device, perhaps they have some tech note that'll help clarify things? Or, failing that, pull out your sound card or other third-party device and see if things work without it. I've had that problem myself with an eMachines unit... Want to read more about this? Microsoft has lots of troubleshooting information on Windows Media Player at the Windows Media Player Help Center.
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Never miss another useful Q&A article again! Subscribe to AskDaveTaylor with Google Reader. I downloaded some songs from Limewire and after 3 weeks playing them on windows media they are corrupted and frankly speaking the catalogue is quite huge all in all I dont want to play those sonngs again in winmedia and I cant help to lose those songs Posted by: john at August 8, 2005 1:36 AMDon't have a clue what's going on, John, but realize that at least 90% of what you'd download in Limewire or a similar P2P application is probably an illegal copy. As a result, it's not unlikely that you picked up a corrupted version of the file and/or even some viruses or spyware. I'd check for all of that, make sure your computer is clean, then seriously consider just deleting these bad mp3 files. Good luck to you! Posted by: Dave Taylor at August 8, 2005 3:48 AMI can not for the life of me get my sound to work on my computer?? I have done all the troubleshooting and recomended advise on your site and nothing is working?? How do I even know what my sound card is?? I am not sure but a couple things keep coming up about my sound device and driver! HELP ME Posted by: Katrina at December 21, 2005 12:04 PMHow can i transfer the songs from Lime Wire to media player.. i just can't figure it out.. Posted by: Brittany at January 12, 2006 8:00 PMHi Dave, Mary Hi Mary. Not to ask an obvious question, but everything's plugged in, right? And you don't have "mute" selected in the sound pop-up? And you've gone into START -> Settings -> Control Panels -> Sound and made sure nothing looks odd (like volume=0) ?? Posted by: Dave Taylor at January 30, 2006 9:42 AMHi Dave; Thanks! No ideas, but, really, aren't you *blessed* to avoid that little audio signature bit? :-) Posted by: Dave Taylor at January 30, 2006 11:58 AMi have some music vidoes where its duration is a few minutes but on all my media players they only show a few seconds..can u help me? Posted by: atif mohammed at February 11, 2006 4:26 PMHi Dave, i am having problem with my CD drive. There is no sound. I know CPU has soundcard and all the attachments are correct. Computer says: Cannot play back the audio stream: no audio hardware is available, or the hard ware is not responding Posted by: ravi at April 20, 2006 3:57 PMHey Dave, how can i play the songs i have in my limewire library into real player?? PLEASE HELP ME!! I CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO FIX MY SOUND CARD DEVICE...OR IF I EVEN NEED A NEW ONE? MY SOUND FROM MY DESK TOP SPEAKER WON'T WORK. HOW DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT KIND OF A SOUND CARD DEVICE YOU HAVE AND HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU FIX IT?? PLEASE HELP! LISA Posted by: LISA at July 19, 2006 11:52 AMI have a couple of mp3 players with a file on each of them (audio - voice) that is fairly sensitive. I'd like to edit out the background radio/tv sounds so that I can hear just the voices -- kind of critical -- any suggestions on editing software that can handle this kind of thing? SP Posted by: Susan at August 10, 2006 2:55 PMHi Dave, I'm computer illiterate, so please help me out here. I have a number of songs downloaded into my Lime Wire library. They were playing just fine until the other day and then suddenly nothing would play when I clicked on it. I know it's not a sound problem because I still get sound on my media player. Also, how do you transfer songs from Lime Wire to Media Player? Any help you could give me would be appreciated. Thanks, how can i tranfer downloaded limewire sonds, that can go directly too windows media player instead of dragging to windows Posted by: mike at October 26, 2006 4:33 PMDave! I downloaded limwire but every time it says run and I click run, it would never come up. I did it several times and nothing still happened. What should I do? Posted by: brianna at January 4, 2007 6:37 PMHi Dave great site i found the wma to mp3 advice very useful, cheers. Hello! I am having a problem with Windoews Media zcenter in that when I watch live tv, or recorded tv, the sound is all out of whack and seems to cut in and out. Commercials, for example, are very loud, but the program itself has minimal volume for voices and such (while the background music is much louder). Is this a problem with my speakers or is there somethin wrong with Media Center itself? Posted by: Andy at February 13, 2007 5:10 PMI have windows media player 10 installed on computer, and whenever I play a CD it plays as if it's a cartoon that's singing it! How do I get rid of this problem? I'm having a problem with Windows Media Player. When I rip a CD it's not getting the album/artist/title information off the internet. I checked the privacy options and they are set to retreive the info automatically. IT's not a problem with my internet itself, because that is working perfectly fine with every other application. Do you know what could be wrong? Posted by: Becky Norton at February 22, 2007 3:55 PMHi. Just got a laptop with pre-installed vista home premium and every track change in windows media player is preceded by a horrible cutting in and out of the sound. Have tried with the crossfader on and off, and everything I can think of. I'm wondering if it's a microsoft ploy to get me to call the $40 help line as there's no help there. Could it be that microsoft is having compatibility issues with itself? If you have any ideas, advice would be appreciated. Thanks dave, found your piece on no audio for windows media player very helpfull. Thanks. Posted by: ade pollitt at February 28, 2007 12:20 PMDave, I had a nasty trojon that may have corrupted windows media player. I went to the windows media player site to see if I could find a fix. I found nothing of value there. When ever I try to play any music I get a error code cood11b1. Is there a solution with out spending $$ on a computer tech or completely wiping my hard drive. I lost the cd. lol thanks Hi Dave, I recently installed Vista Home Premium on this PC and since installing it can not get Windows Media Player or MMJB to recognise that I have a 5.1 Sound system. I have both a Realtek HD Audio card on main board and a Soundblaster Live USB external card, but on both all the sound I get is from the left/right speakers and sub-woofer. Realtek is set as default sound system and on both cards, the Test mode from control panel finds the full set of speakers including center and l/r rear speakers. Any ideas? Worked fine under XP. Mike Posted by: Mike Simpson at March 5, 2007 5:31 PMI just got a new computer, came pre installed with windows vista and everything that goes along with it. my problem is when i play music at about 7/8th of the song it kind of skips or something and it does this with all my songs. ANy idea on what it could be? Posted by: Charles at March 10, 2007 6:00 AMhi how do i convert real player from limewire to media player? Posted by: jenny goldswoerthy at March 11, 2007 1:20 PMHi Dave , Hi Dave, I recenely bought a laptop from dell which came with Windows Vista Home premium centre on it. every time i play a sing on windows media player it plays but about 15-20 seconds before ever track finishes it starts distorting the sound then goes back to normal just before song ends!! What is wrong Help!!!! Posted by: Matt at March 23, 2007 12:48 PMhi Dave im having problems with my sound thingies i cant play songs on my windows media player and i just reformatted my pc , i checked for drivers and sound devices it says it works properly i dont kjnow whats happening but please can u help. Posted by: kev at April 1, 2007 7:10 AMhi, having problem with media player. i cannot view library or add to it. Each time i try to add by goin onto File>Add to media library i select the folder i want to add but media library does not find any tracks and pauses on progress bar. So i have to keep goin to the folder and playing the tunes. Re-installed many times. HELP! email me usman.e@hotmail.co.uk Hi I have this album and song on window media player 11 that i cannot delete from my library it has no name n everything is unknow all u want to so is delete it can anyone help me out. hi,i just downloaded songs from urge,and every time i try to play the songs i get an error code cood11b1.songs that i have ripped from my cd's work fine,i can play them and burn them with no problem,just the songs from urge.i have windows vista home basic.any advice would be great thanks. Posted by: elliott at April 9, 2007 9:21 PMI'm having problems with my windows media player. whenever I play music WMP lags even though there are no other progrmas running. When I play vedio, the sound plays normally but the vedio lags quite alot. Posted by: Lee at April 11, 2007 7:54 AMHi, Dave, Jack. Posted by: jack craig at April 12, 2007 1:42 PMHi. I am going nuts with a sound problem on my Windows XP machine. It came pre-installed with Realtek and all songs which play on Windows Media Player on my other pc - and play with perfect sound - are getting echoes and over-loud background music and other things - when played on WMP on my XP machine. I suspect it's due to something that Real Tek is doing but I cannot figure out what. Is there any fix for this, short of uninstalling Real Tek? I really don't want to do that unless there is no other option, because it came pre-installed. I'm fed up of the echoes which make the singers' voices almost impossible to hear. Please help. JD Posted by: JD at April 22, 2007 1:57 AMHi,Dave I Am Having Trouble with My Computer Playing Musick On any program. I need Help ASAP. If This Helps This Is What It Tells Me. Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound device. There might not be a sound device installed on your computer, it might be in use by another program, or it might not be functioning properly. please help me. Robert Rivera Posted by: Robert Rivera at April 23, 2007 4:16 AMI have a problem regarding the windows media player i installed. I can hear music when I play mp3s and music videos, but it can't play any DVDs i put in the dvd rom. can anybody help me out on this? to add up to my post, the player can actually play the DVD but it can only show the videos but there are no sound coming out of it. Posted by: louj at April 23, 2007 3:04 PMI am having the exact same problem as Matt... IT "skips/studders" about 18 seconds before each song ends. I have Vista Ultimate x64 installed. Grrrr! QUOTE: To cure stutter about 20 seconds from end of song.... >Control panel worked for me. Note: This only seems to be a problem on Dell machines. (your exact path to this option may vary depending on audio card that is hi how do i convert real player from limewire to media player? cheers:) Posted by: dan at April 25, 2007 1:35 PMi've noticed no one has answered how to transfer limewire files to windows media player. can it be done & how? i was using my wmp yesterday and when i put a disc in i got no album art at all. i can't use my library at all and urge doesn't even let me download. please help Posted by: Stanley at April 29, 2007 10:58 AMHi dave, hey i found out the actual culprit of stuttering audio its not this enhancements... u can enale them but only with one condition.. DISABLE THE SRS WOW in mediaplayer 11 :) turn off that and everything vl b fine!! it doesnt work with this enhancmeent ...
I have NO sound while using windows media player but sound works fine with everything else skype, power dvd etc so i know its not my speakers...Can you help.. Posted by: Mandy at May 8, 2007 6:00 AMhey dave, i have tried, restoring my computer, but still, i have sound problems with my digital channesl in my media center, i have tried everything but i still dont know what to do, can u help please Posted by: Derrick McGriffin at May 9, 2007 9:29 AMI have had my computer for almost 2 years its a Dell dimension 5150. I hasve had this problem once before but i dont want to have to send for an expensive computer repairman to do the same job again. All my sound has completely vanished. I can't get it on the internet, iTunes, windows media player, cyberlink power DVD, nothing. nothing has been unplugged so something must have happened on the software....i think! can you suggest a solution?? Where's Dave? Hilarious, there are questions from over a year ago unanswered from Dave Taylor yet you still post your questions here. This is funny. Ciao. Posted by: jay at May 15, 2007 1:32 PMOh, I'm still here, Jay, but if you read closely, you'll find that what's great about the blogging community is that people help each other, so just as I hoped when I started building the site, you can help each other and not rely on me having every single answer. :-) Posted by: Dave Taylor at May 15, 2007 10:40 PMI've had a problem for months where Windows Media Player 11 has been playing sound out of only one speaker. All the balance settings were centred and I had no problems with any other program, just WMP. Today I clicked on the balance slider on WMP's Graphic Equalizer and the left speaker sprang back into life. I didn't move the slider at all as it was already in the central position; I just clicked it. If anyone's having a similar problem, it may be worth giving that a try. Posted by: CL at May 25, 2007 12:39 PMhi i would like to know how do you get your songs from your limewire library to transfer into window media player and why won't my songs play in the windows media player Posted by: babygirl at June 2, 2007 7:30 AMHello,I was wondering how do I transfer my limewire music I already have downloaded to my media player? I cant seem to get it on my owe I really need your help..Please..Thanks for your time...Hope to here back from ya sooner then later...Thanks again.. Kim Posted by: kim at June 3, 2007 9:18 AMhow do you transfer songs i have downloaded on limewire to windows media player? ashley Posted by: ashley at June 27, 2007 3:30 PMDear Dave, here's my problem: My Sound Card isn't working. I can't hear anything out of my speakers when I go onto like... Youtube for example. Now, is there ANY way that you could tell me how to fix the card by myself? Well, thanks for reading this and I appreicate ANY help that I can get!!! hello dave pls help... i dont have a media player and it wont let me down load any media player Posted by: crip at July 13, 2007 1:38 AMHEY DAVE I CANT GET MY SPEAKERS NOR EARPHONES TO WORK LIKE I MEAN I WAS LISTNING TO MUSIC 1 TIME AND BOOM NOTHIGN AUTOMATTIACCLY STOP THA SOUND WINDOWS MEDIA WAS STILL PLAYING BUT NO SOUND I NEED THA SOUND LOL CAN U HELP EITHER TALK ON HERE OR PM ME..... NATIVEKID_2006@HOTMAIL.COM-LLXXLLBLINKY.CRUNKLLXXLL Posted by: WSW at July 23, 2007 7:48 PMSteve Olsen, you rock! The 20 second from the end glitch is gone. Thank you! Posted by: James Sturms at July 24, 2007 10:25 PMopen your limewire files and transfer then to a seperate folder. i keep a folder named "music" and have it set up as my default save folder in limewire. I have been using limewire for 8 yesrs now and never had a problem. you just have to be carefull and select files with high (stars) ratings. you should configure your limewire to the way you want it. I have i tunes as my default player instead of the standard limewire player. you can also limit who can acess your files, and how many. (if any) good luck. Wulfgang Posted by: Wulfgang at August 4, 2007 6:14 PMHi Dave, Heres my problem, one that I really don't quite understand. I have limwire and downloaded many songs and usually put them in my windows media player. The family have done this two accounts on the computer. After maybe 4 months of enjoyment, the computers sound decides to start skipping. Yes even when we watch youtube our sound will stop for a second and then start back up. Im not sure if this contributes to problem but If anyone could help, PLEASE GIVE some feedback. hello dave I have a problem with my windows media player I have songs from limewire pro and media from u torrent i usually use vlc media player on my last computer then I switched to vista and windows media player worked for those files now I think I may have downloaded a different coedic and now all I get is a black screen with sound, what should I do? Posted by: mike at August 10, 2007 5:56 PMHello Dave. I have just bought a new computer package from Dell and I find the downloading video clips (the short free samples you can download from the net) takes a very long time. I have Vista on this new computer. I never had that problem before. The Dell tech told me this is a problem that Microsoft is aware of and trying to fix. Not good enough. Is this true and is there a fix? Posted by: Ross at August 14, 2007 9:09 PMDVDs have always played fine on my Inspiron E1405 with Windows Media Player as long as I used the regular player instead of the installed "cool" version. Suddenly, something has changed. All my DVDs now sound like they are underwater. I tried restoring my machine, but no luck. I'm not sure how to deal with the sound card issue...can I take it out and put it back in, or do I risk losing it all together? Should I uninstall windows media player and reinstall? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Brett Posted by: Brett at August 17, 2007 9:45 AMHello Dave ! How do I transfer downloades sons on Limewire to WMP 11 in orer to create a music CD? Thanks a lot 4 reply!(It must sound like a common question to you!) Posted by: Robert Soer at August 24, 2007 2:42 AMHiya Dave, Is it possible to burn music onto a CD that can crossfade? I'm using Windows Media Player 10. It works fine when I'm using the program, but doesn't work when I burn the songs onto CD. Any advice? Posted by: Alex at August 30, 2007 8:17 AMhi dave can you help me windows media player will play certain vids on you tube then but others will only play for 2 seconds then stops for about 10 seconds then plays for another 2 seconds do you no whats wrong with it Posted by: tom at September 3, 2007 4:29 PMSteve Olson does rock!! Thank you for the information on stopping that static at the end of song on dell laptops. I have been fighting with this for about 7 months!! Posted by: Slackr at September 18, 2007 10:36 PMHello Dave, my windows media player is playing movies upsidedown. How would i go about fixing that ?? Posted by: alex at September 19, 2007 11:22 AMi have only just got my computer workin proply and everytime i try to play any songs or insert a cd it keep saying that the sound drivers are not installed but i didnt need to install them from the start and i didnt get any installion discs Posted by: andy at September 27, 2007 1:22 PMDear Dave, I am facing the problem with the launching of WMP. Whenever i double click the WMP icon in start menu, the HDD light flickers for some time and than it does not open. Similarly whenever I am trying to play any song using right click and double clicking the option of "play with WMP", again the HDD light flickers for few seconds and again it does not open. Kindly help me in trouble shooting this. Posted by: Ashish at September 28, 2007 7:41 AMDear Dave hii dave my computer volume is not working i have tried all the means like checking all the volume tools which has been adjusted properly. Also i found that the kaspersky version 6 antivirus have deleted the volume files what to do ......i need your help Posted by: subash at September 29, 2007 7:32 AMGreetings Dave, I have a new laptop with Vista Home and every time I play music tracks on Windows Media Player the sound keeps cutting in and out and acts like its skipping. Any ideas on what to do? Thanks Posted by: Mike at September 29, 2007 2:00 PMbelow is the message i get when i open wmp i dont know what to do as i dont think is a genuine copy, is there a way to bypass this to get windows working on the laptop?
To get Windows Media player 11, you must verify that microsoft windows is genuine. after sucessful validation you system will have access to the latest features, updates and surport. Posted by: charlene at October 8, 2007 9:26 AMHey, i'm having stuttering issues with my audio. Before i take it to a shop, i was wondering if there was anything i can do personally. I use windows xp, 512 ram, about 180 gigs. I've tried everything from defragmenting, updating drivers, re installing--checking for spyware and what not. If you have any suggestions, i'd love to hear them. The only thing left i can think of is buying a new sound card. Posted by: todd at October 9, 2007 4:09 PMPlease help! Hello there. I have a desktop computer but my windows XP are not genuine which I didn't learn about until after I couldn't even get in touch with the person who installed it. A few months ago something happened and I got no sound since then. It probably wiykd have been easier if I had no sound at all but it does work in certain programs, on/off windows etc. It doesn't work in any meadia player/real player/quick time player, iTunes, streaming video/audio. I have no idea what to do, I tried everything I could. Re-installing wmp didn't work as my windows are not genuine and the installation can never be complete without verification. This is really frustrating but I know no one who could help me with this. Thank you very much in advance!!! I would really appreciate any help! Posted by: Lina at October 19, 2007 5:39 PMIf you are having problems with no sound on media players, yet all your sother is fine, then do this. Go to http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Codec_Pack_All_in_1.htm Download the Codec Pack All in 1. I had the problem and this fixed it immediately. Posted by: Kenneth Smith at October 20, 2007 5:47 PMMy problem is with Windows Media Player in windows Vista! the problem is that when I try to open Windows Media Player it just won't open!! nothing happens!! no error message, nothing.. and reinstalling is not an option because there is now download link for Windows Media Player for Windows Vista, I tried talking to microsoft but they don't even know what's up!!... I want to use Windows Media Player, I'm getting crazy and Itunes crashes every seconrd on my computer!!... I really need my media Player Please reply to el_nuevo_agustini_elmejorpr@hotmail.com if somebody knows how to fix this!!... Posted by: Agustin at November 1, 2007 8:45 PMHello, Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound device. There might not be a sound device installed on your computer, it might be in use by another program, or it might not be functioning properly. Posted by: boy at December 13, 2007 7:32 AMHello, When I play WMAs or MP3s using Windows Media Player ver. 11 (latest), my music files sound like they are skipping (like a record) or are very scratchy. They use to play just fine on my Windows XP, Creative Audio sound card. In some instances, like U-Tube videos, the sound is just fine, but other online videos, the sound is similarly terrible. I have checked all my software settings and physical wire connections. All is good and in working order. I can play a Music CD and it sounds fine. Any ideas on why music files on my computer sounds terrible scratchy? Posted by: Zane Dunnam at December 27, 2007 9:22 PMmy sound on my p.c was working now is not what can I do to fix it. Posted by: rain at January 21, 2008 12:28 PMWhen wmp is maximized from the minimized version it hides imbedded in the r/h margin of my desktop and will not return to full screen. It plays songs and videos but I have no access to the controls and cannot see the visulation screens. I can't get it back on my desktop. I uninstalled it completely and re-installed 10 and 11 and the result is the same. Booting and virus scans are no help. Can you help? Posted by: Burt Smith at January 24, 2008 7:05 PMyour buttons do not work on my mouse .or your links,so how do i repair my media player Posted by: Nadeem ansari at February 1, 2008 2:33 PMDave, hi dave........ I'm having a problem with syncing my music to an sd card. I'm using windows media 11 and transferring to a 2 g card. no matter what i try i cant get more than 134 songs on it. Or any other card for that matter. I have to store the files without folders since my mp3 requires it. I've tried mp3 & wma files. Same results either way. Any help would be appreceated. Hi Dave. This seems to be a Windows Media player problem.I have anusual issue here. When I play some email video attatchments or some from my cbc news home page I get different experiences. All will play the video aspect but "every other" will have no sound. Funny thing is , I can send the ones that dont give me sound, back to the sender or another person and they can play it and get sound where I could not.Any input would be appreciated. ds Posted by: Don Skelley at February 27, 2008 10:18 AMElizabeth McLeman at February 20, 2007 9:24. "windows is sounding like cartoon" My situ., much to her description. My interp., dvd is playing in a metal barrel type of eco. Posted by: Don at March 8, 2008 12:38 PMHi Dave Hi Kerry Posted by: kerry at April 16, 2008 7:28 PMI put in a flash drive or any usb drive into the laptop an error message appears "Window Media Player is not properly installed"..."Do you want to install the Player from the Microsoft Web site". I can't seem to find the media player anywhere on the computer to uninstall it and it wont let me reinstall it from microsoft's website Posted by: Kevin Fraley at April 26, 2008 3:16 PMHi Dave, The Windows media player i have will not play sound with any type of file. The soundcard drivers are up to date, i am using XP {fully updated}, all other sounds are perfectly audible - i am currently using realplayer to actually listen to music and watch videos... WMP won't even work in internet browsers. I have reinstalled WMP form v10 to v11 and back to v10to try and fix it but to no avail... Playback is normal apart from being devoid of sound. Any help would be appreciated. -Metael Posted by: Metael at April 27, 2008 6:34 AMhey Dave, I really don't know who else to ask. so if you could help me, your help would be immencely appreciated. thanks a lot in advance! Hi Dave I had the same problem with Media Player 11,tried all your suggestions,nothing worked.I read somewhere about codec and downloaded Windows Essentials Media Codec Pack 1 and I finally got sound.Hope this works for others. Thanks Posted by: Dominic at May 13, 2008 9:40 PMHi Dave, my laptop has a problemwith the sound device it cannot play any music what could be the problem with it? Posted by: onoka steve at May 26, 2008 12:46 AMhave a problem.please help.tried to transfer .mp3 files from one drive to another.lost 100s tried to copy same files from one drive to another lost 100s more.where do they go?why cant i find them?these are permanent files not time license types.why did windows delete them?move copy transfer doesnt matter what i try.is it windows media player?is it my external storage drives?they all read running properly.no virus.all defragmented.are the files hidden because i tried to compress them?or lost forever?i have checked every folder and file on every drive for them.one minute they are there next they are gone.please help.thank you Posted by: dan odonnell at June 3, 2008 6:12 PMi have windows media player 11,when i selct a track it bursts out with a loud fuzzy start before going to play in a more quite mode,i dont know how to solve this.please help Posted by: Eki Eguae at July 18, 2008 10:34 PMI Am Having Trouble with My Computer Playing Musick On any program. I need Help ASAP. If This Helps This Is What It Tells Me. Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound device. There might not be a sound device installed on your computer, it might be in use by another program, or it might not be functioning properly. ----------- HI DAVE I HAVE EMACHINE E17T6W TFT LCD FLAT PANEL MONITOR MY HARTDRIVE MAKES A LOUND SOUND LIKE WENT YOU ARE FLOORING SEW MACHINE AND ON WINDOW MEDIA POWER POINT IS SLOW AND FREEZE CAN YOU HELP ME TELL WHAT IS GOING ON Posted by: EMILY at July 30, 2008 8:37 PMi had sound until I upgraded from windows 98 to xp trouble shooter says no audio device what can ido to fix this Posted by: larry seabrook at August 7, 2008 8:02 PMHi Dave, hi, when i go to download a torrent or even play a normal cd through windows media it brings box up with codecs fomat etc... cant seem to play or download anything, also something missing from realplayer and wont let me download the missing software...please help asap Posted by: karla at August 22, 2008 6:33 AMhi dave, my problem is when im finished burining songs onto the blank cd and i put the cd in the cd player it doesnt work , it only works if i put it on the computer Posted by: Michelle at August 28, 2008 11:24 AMHi Dave my windows media player hasnt been playing music, or for that matter anything.It won't even open anymore and i tried to open the media files on my computer in wmp but it just says operation aborted, do you know anyway I could start listening to my music on wmp again? Posted by: Austin at August 28, 2008 11:54 AMHi Dave, I descovered this site as I came up with an idea. So that's how I found this one my question is this. How can I get it to play? I did decide to block it as the registary scan changed the feature for playing my video. If you know how to unblock this feature could you please help? Posted by: Sean at October 2, 2008 4:58 PMI have speakersfor my computer,they worked welll before even headphones, but now nothing comes out. I went to control panel and it says no sound devices. but everything is conected. Hi Dave, Looks like there are a bunch of ppl on here w/probs w/their media player. I have version 11 as well. The issue I'm having is that it won't show up-it opens up, it's on my toolbar, I can minimize it, etc.-but for the life of me I can't get it to "reappear". I ran a virus scan, spyware scan, deleted cookies, etc. but still no luck. I even re-installed it. Please help! Posted by: joselle at October 11, 2008 8:52 AMHello Dave, I have an issue with Windows media player (.wmv) attachements, I can download them and listen to the audio but the picture is not available, it essentially plays it like a sound file. I have tried uninstalling and updating it but nothing seems to work, My OS is vista. can you help me on this one?? Posted by: Frank at October 17, 2008 2:23 PMhi dave, recently had virus's deleted off my computer and since then all sounds are speeded up like the chipmunks, what can i do dave its driving me mad!!!! Posted by: simon at November 3, 2008 2:25 PMhello, i can download songs, but when i play them. it all sounds like alvin and the chipmunks. i can download them onto my ipod and it sounds ok. i have checked the voloume control. i hope you can help. thanks Posted by: paula at November 24, 2008 7:53 PMDave, Hey Dave, I'm trying to watch some lectures online, but when I click on the windows media player option, it plays the videos but I can't hear a thing. However, when I click on a different program. It works just fine. I'd prefer to use media player so I can watch the lecture at a faster speed. Posted by: Ze at November 29, 2008 7:37 PMI had the same problem as the guy on this page. CDs were silent when I played them, and this occurred with Windows Media Player only. I went going to Tools > Options > Devices > Audio CD, and noticed that Playback was set to 'Analog'. I changed it to 'Digital' and the problem was solved. If you can't hear CDs in Media Player, give this a try. Posted by: Chris at December 8, 2008 6:35 PMMy Windows media player sound is distorted. Sometimes it plays fast and other times the sound is overloud or distorted. It used to work fine, in fact a video plays better in my divx player when it should work fine in Windows media player. I'm pretty sure it's the software drivers. I think it all started back when I installed SUPER (the multi video player) and then installed some fft package for the video or something. Anyways I hadn't bothered to fix it because things worked fine in DIVx. Now I'm listening to some mp3's and it's kind of annoying. It could be the FLV player or the SWF player I'm not sure. Anyways there weren't any clear solutions above, except to check for competing device drivers. Posted by: Chris at December 24, 2008 1:47 PMFixed it. It was just the graphic equalizer in Windows media player. I remember adjusting it high. Works fine now. Silly me. So folks, check to see if you haven't changed your equalizer, if you have just set everything back to normal. Posted by: Chris at December 25, 2008 6:40 PMDave my niece was given a ipod nano for xmas and neither her mum's computer ormine will recognise it so we can transfer from windows media what are we doing wrong i can make my mp3 player wor this way cheers Maree Posted by: maree at December 26, 2008 8:42 PMFor Windows XP users an Audio and Video Codec Pack is available at - http://www.free-codecs.com/XP_Codec_Pack_download.htm Posted by: vfar at February 3, 2009 4:26 PMi have a problem when i play a video of mine from the camera and put it on my computer... the sound does not match the picture.. ¿does anyone know why this happens or how to fix it? Posted by: sean at February 4, 2009 3:05 PMHey, hi there how do i totally uninstall windows media player from vista home basic, basilcly it is missing the media library and when try to repair it it wont let me as it says you already have the most upto date player there is it is really doing my head in now there is all the quistion where can we find the answer Hi Dave, I have no idea what this all means!! Help please. Help! My Windows Media Player makes a loud booming noise when playing an audio file. Posted by: Don at March 30, 2009 2:19 PMHi Dave, Thanks! Posted by: Mark at April 7, 2009 2:00 PMThe sound device of my laptop works properly, but whenever I want to hear a file, I can't hear anything, even when I open the wmp program, after a while it will be closed. Please help me in this case. Posted by: alireza at April 11, 2009 12:14 AMHi dave, i need help everytime i put a DVD in my computer it plays but all i hear is the BGM (Back Ground Music) when people talk i cant hear nothing.. Im using Windows Media Player and i also tryed Windows Media Center but still does same thing..Can u help me please. Posted by: Timmy at April 13, 2009 12:51 PMskipping when playing music on windows media player on presario 5000 Posted by: RICHARD at April 28, 2009 10:25 AMI have two computers (a desktop and a laptop ) with Windows Vista. I haven't had in trouble with using my Sony Walkman MP3 player until a few days ago after I install Mcafee virus software. Now both my computers are unable to recognize my player. Do I need to download a driver or what? Thanks Posted by: Sara at April 28, 2009 12:42 PMDave, anybody HELP.... I have wmp11 when I play back some,not all they are chopy. Sorta like a stutter I guess . How come? and how can this be fixed ? Posted by: Larry at April 29, 2009 2:06 AMI have problems hearing out of my left speaker on my computer. If ther is anyway you can hepl me get sound to come out of the left speaker because the right one is still on. Posted by: yolanda at May 3, 2009 2:08 PMmy problem is one thing.i need to setup windows media player sound.my sound doesn't play music,i meed help for that,pleas. Posted by: lindiwe at May 5, 2009 5:07 AMHi, i have a problem with windows media player 11, i play songs threw other programs and it works perfect but with WMP everysong i play on it just makes these wierd soung. I know that my sound card and everything is ok cause every other sounds work perfect. Posted by: aazzyy at May 6, 2009 5:40 PMwhen i will to laz music or video whit wmp wir block mz media and sazx to mz send eror what can i to do___________ Posted by: Anonima Artist at May 8, 2009 8:54 AMOK dave please help me out here man everytime i try to play a video on windows media player VLC media player and even quicktime media player it dosnt work. I mean i can hear the what they say but i cant see anything it just shows the video stoping then playing the same part of the video so dave can you help me out with the delema here.I can hear the sound of the video but i cant watch the video its a pain in the ass so dude can you please help me out Posted by: Caleb at May 13, 2009 4:02 PMmy sound used to work fine but it started skipping or clicking during every sound it plays. i was wondering could you tell me what i could do to fix it. Posted by: sara t at May 18, 2009 9:07 PMi've just recently got eveerything reinstalled on my laptop.but when i got it back from the shop.i noticed a little to late that i didn't have and audio in which i had before.maybe you can tell what i need to do to get this back on my laptop my media player has an error code cood1099. please what do i do? Posted by: ben ortiz at May 29, 2009 9:43 AMHello Dave I use my ps3 as a media center to watch my movies. Laptop; Compaq; F557US; Vista preloaded. I recently lost my sound from my computer. Posts suggest program updates the culprit. Moron from India won't help w/out more $$$$. Can't reinstall driver, is up to date with most current. Go to your contral panel, sounds/devices, click uninstall driver, then go to compaq support and re-install driver. Volume control restored. I now have my WMP restored without paying HP/Compaq more $$ to fix what should have been resolved before selling this model. I turned off my automatic updates too; until Microsoft figures out the problem. Posted by: Marco at June 14, 2009 10:09 AMHi Can you please help me i accidently deleted a program off of my computer and i cant remember what it was and now when i listen to music on media player, youtube or listen to any other audio or video files in my computer it sounds like alvin and the chipmunk please help me im going nuts trying to fix it +plus i tryed to adjust the volume control thingie and it hasnt done anything PLEASE PLEASE help me... Thank you for your time Posted by: Xaviera at June 28, 2009 5:28 PMwhy is my quickplay not playing my dvd? It's saying no dvd. windows media ctr gives me a msg saying no dvd detected in dvd-rom. i have an hp pavillion dv 9410us notebook PC laptop. Thank you Posted by: carl swang at July 9, 2009 10:42 AMGuys, to all those who dont know how to make WMP11 pick up Limewire songs without you doing anything do this If you have this, follow the same Command to get to Dxdiag (go to Run and type: Dxdiag) and click on the Sound tab, make sure that there is somthing in the "Drivers" box and if not there should be a box next to it saying the Device name, google it and download some drivers for (If there is nothing under the sound tab, or it is Grayed out then go to your local PC store, and buy a cound card and see if they can show you how to put it in your PC, or do it for you...) For those who are saying "my DvD wont play, Check it is a DvD rom not a CD rom, and for those who say it stutters, check your Ram... betty mccormack if you just got everything reinstalled on your PC, the guys will have wiped EVERYTHING from your Hard drive, unless your a tech expert who works for the CIA, you will not be able to recover it. aazzyy. Trust me when I say WMP is NOT the best media player out there, and just because its from Windows doesnt mean that it is the best, If the sound is distorted then just use somthing else. yolanda. A few things can cause this, check your cables, the amount of times Ive gone into the hardcore stuff, like altering Drivers and whatnot just to realise that the cables are unplugged, if it isnt then click the arrow under Now Playing and hover over enhancements then click on Graphic Equaliser, check that the "Balance" arrow is in the middle, if not that then go to your computers Volume control, should be a speaker looking icon in your taskbar, if not go
I'm having problems with this also. Right speaker only with WMP; works fine with other apps. I will try upgrading DirectX. Posted by: problems at July 17, 2009 8:04 AMi want to kown how my media player could play the songs downloaded from internet , when i download the songs from the net , my window media player gives me notice that eihter the file is corrupt or the player does not support formet you are try to piay Hi Dave/Ne 1 that could help. I don't have a clue what I've done to the sound on my computer, but while trying to remove Norton Anti Virus 2005 I seem to have deleted something which makes the sound work. I have no sound what so ever, no start up music when i turn on my computer or no sound on youtube, online anywhere!! I have a Packard Bell computer and I went on to their website to download the specific sound driver for my computer but this is still not working. I also went into DirectXdiagnostic and when i clicked the sound tab it says in the Notes field that there is No sound card. can someone please help me!! Thanks Posted by: Emma at August 22, 2009 2:10 PMI cannot hear sound on my laptop without use of earbuds or external speakers. Any ideas/suggestions would be welcomed. THANKS! Posted by: Linda at August 27, 2009 7:09 PMHey Dave. I have a problem getting sound from my computer when playing from two things. For example if I am loading up a youtube clip and try to watch a movie on VLC (or any other media player for that matter) the sound will not play but the video works fine. Essentially, sound will play for the youtube clip but not for any sounds outside of the internet browser, irrespective of what browser I use. Any thoughts? Posted by: Reuben at August 31, 2009 2:25 AMWindows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound device. There might not be a sound device installed on your computer, it might be in use by another program, or it might not be functioning properly is the error i am getting dave and i need your help. there is another error message on this page with the same problem but you havent replied to it. HOWCOME? Also please do it this time because i really do need some help quickly on this problem. Thanks! Posted by: HaSsan at September 21, 2009 7:44 PMhow do i fix my window media player i lost the sound devices how can i get then back and i do have to pay just asking nessa Posted by: nessa at September 30, 2009 1:39 PMhey..... excuse me Dave but my computer's audio is not working properly the speakers are still working but i do not hear sound when i try to play a sound. my computer says that there isn't a sound device but yet my speakers are connected.Can you help? i'm missing alot of things because of this like i wan't to watch my movies help please. I am going nuts. Every sound that media player plays (video, cd, whatever) sounds like it is on Helium what is wrong!!! How do I fix this? Dave -- Grey Headed "semi-non-tekkie" here w/ a WMP question. Just now noticed that a set of tracks [ripped] recently (last week), now make it IMPOSSIBLE to play that original CD in my player -- (Plextor PX-740A), E-IDE. Absolutely not a whimper of trouble since original installation (2 years) until I missed taking the CD w/ me on a trip and when I returned home, found it sitting @ my desk and thought I'd pop it in and listen to the [original sounds]. Now, drawer just recycles back out in 1-2 seconds and just sits open. HOW rude ?? Lots of comments on various sites about trouble not being ABLE to rip things from a CD, but NOTHING about rending the original "inert" after a SUCCESSFUL rip ! This includes [and and ALL) original CDs that heave been ripped to my WMP library !Any help w/ this would be VERY greatly appreciated. PLEASE feel free to use my e/mail for an answer -- check it 2/3/4 times a day. Posted by: George YOUNG at October 27, 2009 1:43 AMI have a lot to say, but ...
I do have a comment, now that you mention it!
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