Solved Windows Media Player Playback

[hammad37]

hi everyone,
i am having a problem with my Windows Media Player Playback.
Whenever i try to play an mp3 file or a video file it gives an error that i have shown in the screenshot.
that error suggested web help.I tried web help but didn't worked out.i have included that webpage screenshot also.
So i can't play anything in the Windows media player or in VLC player.Something's wrong with all the music files.
My audio driver is updated and sound device is working.
please see the screenshots, you will understand all.
thank you.

 

[boohbah]

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.

 

[hammad37]

thank you boohbah for a possible solution.yeah as far as i know something's wrong with the media information rights that cause wmp not to play file but i want to know if someone knows how to remove that information tags stored with each media file ?
Suggestions are wellcomed.i want to solve that problem.

 

[boohbah]

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.

 

[hammad37]

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.

 

[Vertex]

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]

thank you for answering man.
troubleshooting couldn't find problem and i
tried your referred software but it didn't worked.

 

[boohbah]

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.

 

[hammad37]

its no solved yet man in spite all the above tricks.
Still searching.
Make some suggestions guys.

 

[Sardonicus]

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.

 

[whs]

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.

Absolutely - that's what I would try too (convert to the same format). Format Factory is a good tool for that.

Format Factory Home Page - Free media file format converter

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/72471-convert-video-audio-files-format-factory.html

 

[hammad37]

yeah thank you all the guys for suppourting.After 2 weeks of this nonsense error what i have done i that i have turned wmp feature off from add/remove programs and after restarting installed jetaudio player which played the files successfully.wmp didn't played anything till its END.
before that i tried jetaudio in presence of wmp but then it also refused to play any file.But now its playing good.
Although i haven't tried that conversion method yet which seems a reasonable method.
So now jetaudio (also plays all files) is working good for me and wmp is like vanished from windows.
But please when someone finds a true solution to this then please post here.
Thank you everyone.

 

[hammad37]

this method is like a solution when you have all options gone. I have done it because i couldn't play any file on my system for almost 3 weeks.Thats pretty bad situation man.
So that is like a necessary step.
Anyone who finds the real solution is welcomed to post it here.
Thank you.

 

[hammad37]

Guys Guys Guys The Problem Persists.
Unfortunately Jetaudio is also not working after 12 hours.
This has got more serious now so please i need your help to solve it.
I have also tried the format factory conversion method but its not working.
Help Needed.

 

[whs]

The next problem I can think of is that you have a general codec problem in your system. See whether the installation of this codec package helps.

Download K-Lite Codec Pack 9.95 (Full) - FileHippo.com

 

[hammad37]

unfortunately it also didn't help also, Whs.
Can i uninstall that DRM windows update that causes this problem ?
Help.

 

[whs]

If you know which update it is, you can uninstall it from the 'Installed Updates'. And next time it shows up, hide it.

 

[hammad37]

I have uninstalled all the updates of my system.Its easy.Check this.
How to Uninstall All Windows Updates: 7 Steps (with Pictures)
Because as far as i think that problem came in my life because as i remember i few weeks back i installed an update from windows update named "Digital Rights Management for media".I think that is the real cause of that error (i have seen its detailed description also).
Now after uninstalling all updates and using Tunebite 8 platinum i have De-DRM allmost all the files on my system.
Now everything seems to work good.windows media player is playing all files.
I pray it proves to be a permanent solution.Ameen.
I will report performance again.

 

[hammad37]

i couldn't find that specific update on my system so i removed all of them.

 

[hammad37]

Guys the method of deleting all updates (in order to delete a DRM related update) also didn't worked.
i spent next 1 whole day doing a fresh windows and all related softwares and drivers but i came to know that the problem was still there so after being dishearten when i still researched on it on net (i have copied all the music content from my second laptop) i found that it was all due to that my WINDOWS AUDIO PLAYBACK SERVICE keeps shutting down without any notice and it shows status "Started" in windows services.
So whenever i refresh that service everything becomes good.
But it doesn't remain started always.
Also the Multimedia Scheduler service in On and RPC endpoint mapper in On but RPC locator service is not running.
Guys please suggest a solid solution for this problem to Make Windows Audio always working.
Thank You.