Windows Media Player

[BAC5.2]

Just put a few MP3's onto my laptop, and I'm trying to get WMP to play them.

It says I'm missing a codec. It doesn't tell me which one, or where to get it.

Any ideas? No error code or anything identifying it.

I think it's WMP V.8.

[vrg3]

Just use Winamp.

Actually, are you sure these are real MP3s? You can email me one if you want me to check.

[BAC5.2]

e-mail sent

[vrg3]

Hm. That file does appear to be a standard MP3. All I can think of is that you might try upgrading to a newer version of Windows Media Player... It looks like they're actually up to version 10 now.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window ... loads.aspx

I don't know anything about whether 10 is better or worse than 8. But I would imagine that upgrading the player would also reinstall the codecs.

I don't know Windows.

[jamal]

yeah, you can try mpc, or download defilerpak. It's a pretty good group of codecs that will allow you to play pretty much any form of media. Here it is

[azn2nr]

i run ffdshow. it does videos and music. good stuff that. i havent had anything i cant play

[wiscon_mark]

media player 10 is a big step up from 9 series, but you need to have XP to run it

I'm still stuck with 98SE on this computer. Our good one has XP media center edition though

[BAC5.2]

I have XP on the laptop and the desktop.

I just ended up using Winamp. It works just fine. I only copied 400 songs over to the laptop, so it's not to difficult to navigate with Winamp yet.

[wiscon_mark]

I use winamp on my 98SE computer