For all of you Windows know-it-all users!, Challenging Question on XP WMP10 |
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For all of you Windows know-it-all users!, Challenging Question on XP WMP10 |
 Sep 27 2004, 22:01
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Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 27-September 04 Member No.: 17349  |
Hey all; this is something really weird I can't seem to be able to solve myself. I'm on XP SP2 and I've just installed windows media player 10. All of a sudden, the info Windows usually shows you about mp3 files (the Id tags you can see either in grey below the file name on the explorer windows; or viewing the properties of each file) are gone! And this is only for mp3, any other file type (e.g. .exe) will say things like 'executable file' etc etc. But not on mp3s! Even if you hover the mouse arrow over the file, the only info it'll show is how big it is (instead of title, album, kbps, etc, as before)
Hope someone realizes what's wrong with my PC. Cheers! |
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Sep 27 2004, 22:37
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Group: Developer Posts: 1289 Joined: 17-March 03 From: Calgary, AB Member No.: 5541 |
weird... works fine on my machine. try uninstalling/reinstalling wmp10
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Sep 27 2004, 23:18
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Group: Members Posts: 357 Joined: 21-April 03 Member No.: 6110 |
Like a lot of Windows software - uninstall, try cleaning the registry, reinstall v9 - if that works then try the *upgrade* to v10
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Sep 28 2004, 06:44
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Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 27-September 04 Member No.: 17349 |
and i did to no avail! Went back to series 9, had some registry cleaner do the job, threw wmp10 back again and even qcdplayer 4.51 (the one i normally use) and nothing; just keeps happening but only to mp3 files (just the ones that i really can use info about). really shameful, thanks again Bill..
Honestly, cheers to those who replied |
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Sep 28 2004, 07:19
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 Group: Members Posts: 933 Joined: 3-June 02 From: USA Member No.: 2204 |
I didn't experience this problem, however I'm wondering if this could be because of file associations. I did notice when reluctantly updating to WMP10 (only because of it being considered a "security update") that it annoyingly automatically registered filetypes it could play. Maybe it caused a conflict on your system with an alternative player that already had the MP3 file association. Perhaps trying to register the MP3 filetype with WMP may work, then again.
-------------------- Complexity of incoherent design.
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Sep 28 2004, 08:01
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 Group: Members Posts: 256 Joined: 25-May 03 From: Greece Member No.: 6805 |
open the registry navigate to
My computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp3 there you should see an entry Persistenthandler with a GUID of {098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb} also in the .mp3 branch you should be able to see a string value Content Type = audio/mpeg -------------------- Dimitris
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Sep 29 2004, 20:37
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Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 27-September 04 Member No.: 17349 |
Close! but not quite! I checked my register and found much too much rubbish on the .mp3 folder, I decided to keep what you told me plus some "Default" which i can't erase. There was also a folder name "mp3folder" i decided to complete erase. I haven't had any trouble with playing mp3s, but there was no chance either. Any hopes?
cheers to everyone! |
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Sep 30 2004, 03:16
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 Group: Members Posts: 41 Joined: 13-November 03 Member No.: 9810 |
What is selected under the view settings? Try "Tiles" (works for me)
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Sep 30 2004, 03:44
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Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 27-September 04 Member No.: 17349 |
tried that aswell, but no
i've tweaked the regfiles a bit, nothing! and it's only happening to mp3 files, i'm really stranded on this one |
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Sep 30 2004, 05:31
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Group: Members Posts: 211 Joined: 1-October 01 From: Lisbon, Portugal Member No.: 127 |
Don't know if it is related, but are you able to check the properties of video files (avi container, for example)? If not, did you try running "regsvr32 shmedia.dll"?
Cya. |
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Oct 4 2004, 01:38
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Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 27-September 04 Member No.: 17349 |
mOrbidini you're a genious!!!!! I must say I didn't see my Id tags coming back again then tried out what you said on your last post and worked just fine! everything's just as normal, thank you very much indeed.
If it's not too much can you explain what I did when I ran "regsvr32 shmedia.dll" ? cheers again! |
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