Windows Media Player Playback

Hi and welcome to the forum Hammad.
i dont have an answer for this ,but i can say it used to happen to me, the files used to play then they didnt.
i think it has something to do with the tags but i cant say for sure.
i can tell you as a result of this issue i tried winamp and found it would play those files wmp wouldnt. so the files were fine.
i have used winamp for several years now and find it to be better.

i hope you get a solution to this as it is of an interest to me too.

you could try removing the tags with mp3tag , funnily enough winamp has a brilliant facility for fetching the metadata for tagging .

the way to do it with winamp is to open all the tracks for an album in winamp , highlight them all by clicking the first track holding shift and click the last track, they will all be highlighted. then, right click /send to /auto tag and follow the prompts in the auto tag window.
this will renew the tags and possibly allow wmp to play them.

winamp has a very good record for me of finding the information.

Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v2, MP4, OGG, FLAC, ...)

edit: there is a decent thread about it here will more ways to rename the id3 tags,
winamp is a good way as its all automated.

Go type Troubleshooting at the Start Menu search bar. This will take you to the Troubleshooting menu at the Control Panel, now look for "View All" at the left hand side panel of the Troubleshooting section and run all three troubleshooting packs in there that are related to Windows Media Player then try playing an Mp3 with Windows Media Player.

A small utility called Fixwin also has fixes for Windows Media Player.

Download FixWin - MajorGeeks


I suspect this maybe because of something that have gone wrong or went missing in the Registry that rendered WMP unable to play natively supported MP3 files.

hammad37 said:

yeah that looks great man, i was also searching a few hours back and found a software ID3Kill.
well i used it, it was quite simple, it simply deleted all the ID2 and ID3 tags from each mp3 file on my system.
I restarted the laptop and checked it was working good also i have cleared the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\DRM folder.
That folder stores the DRM info.
For the time being its good, lets see if that proves to be a permanent solution.
Because before that i tried several other tools they make wmp work good once but when i restart computer
problem came again.
I hope this won't happen now.I have restarted multiple times to check.it working yet.
Also i have changed the wmp settings (Tools>>Options) to never download any media information for any file.
I will report again.

fingers crossed.

Get a free file converter. Try converting the file to the same format or another format, then back again. That may eliminate any corruption that may be present in the file.