Wmp 11 license problems

If you already own this song, sign in to listen to it. I have purchased this music. My downloaded MP3 files work fine. Has anyone else had this problem and if so were you able to fix it and how? I don't get any error message when I try to play the file, the progress bar doens't move everything looks like it should work but it just sits there. MP3's still play fine. The funny thing is it was working just the other day. Downloaded wma file won't play WMP 11 Vista.

MP 9 won't record purchased BuyMusic. WMP 11 won't get license for. Post a reply. Any ideas. I purchase wma music files from Musicmatch and want to play them on an mp3 palyer that doesn't support wma files. Can I convert them? They all lock-up or crash. Click the left and up arrows on your keyboard until WMP comes back onscreen - it is simply offscreen at this point.

If a list of options do not come up, you are in skin mode in the player. A: Your advapi At that point you will then need to reinstall the Media Player , but you should be good to go from that point. Choose which file types you want WMP to be the default player for, then click apply. Certain web pages force you to use WMP6 in them.

Simply install it and WMP6 will stop being embedded. Unselect the file types you don't want WMP to be the default player for, then click apply. These settings persist between installs: once you've made changes here, WMP will no longer take the association unless you ask it to. Q: Why does some other player always play back the files I want to play back with WMP or some other player?

A: That usually means that the other application is taking back over the association. If giving the association to WMP doesn't work, you would either need to turn off some setting in the other application's Options menu or uninstall that other application.

In some cases, this interference on their part will also break multimedia file download, but again the same suggestion should fix that problem too. Q: Where can I find mplayer2. WMP6 is not available upon Windows Vista or newer systems. I installed the wrong language. A: Download WMP for the language of your choice and choose Reinstall All mode, installing it on top of your existing install.

You may need to update the desktop shortcut yourself, but everything else should be fixed. If this still does not fix your problem, find "wmploc. Q: Why does the player show up as a random bunch of controls and then black space in web pages? A: If and only if this page fails and looks screwed up , but this one works , then what has happened is that the backwards compatibility for WMP6 is failing.

This should be indicative of the backwards compatibility type library not being registered. In order to fix this, run the following commands from either the "Run" prompt or a cmd. If that does not work, and you're not on XP or older, running "regsvr Run "regsvr Q: Why am I getting the Media Guide in a foreign language? How do I change the default language? A: thanks to John Cupak The Media Guide uses IE's default language initially, and then sets a cookie indicating your language preference.

Delete that cookie and the language will reset. Q: Why can't I change the player install location? Q: What's the version history on WMP? A: See the official write-up. Also: Is codebase download supported in V7?

A: No. You could point the codebase tag at a known player binary download location, but I'd highly recommend against it. But for WMP7 or newer , no. You can either embed multiple instances of WMP7 or newer in a web page I've supplied a page you can do this with here or open "mplayer2.

You can launch numerous copies of MP4XP this way. This is not supported , though, so try not to do anything too crazy. Generally, you'll only be able to play content that was previously in your Media Library with any additional player, and you will not be able to set player options under the Tools:Option menu. Don't ask me, that's just the Rationale. A: Uninstall DivX 3. A: See this article. A: See my sample on how to do this or the KB here. A: This is documented here.

How you want to do this look-up really depends on what you're trying to do. Different functionality is supported in various versions of the player. Under either of these keys, if IsInstalled is set to 0x1, you can then safely use the "Version" string here as the version of WMP that is installed.

Q: Why does WMP setup ask to reboot after the install? A: Certain files can be in use by the shell which thus require WMP to reboot. If you wish to avoid this reboot, log out and back in previous to installing. WMP9 and newer should not require a reboot in other conditions, provided that WMP is not running at the point of install. WMP is pretty good about avoiding reboots if possible. If you're asked to reboot, please do so before using the player - otherwise the player should block you.

Q: Why does setup fail if Zip Magic is installed? A: See this page for the work-around. The explanation here is that WMP setup is expecting "npds. Q: Why does WMP crash in the middle of setup? A: You're running old NVidia drivers: either get newer ones or reinstall the ones you have. A: The Windows directory location is incorrect. You need to switch to Remote Administration Mode to install software.

A: These operating systems aren't supported. Q: Where can I find a player for OS? A: The currently maintained players can be found here. There's the old Win 3.

A: See the KB article here. Q: I liked having different icons for each file type like WMP6 did. Can I get that back? A: Okay. It is not recommended that you do this. You will need to reinstall the player on top of itself if you want to restore these registry keys. Q: The audio crackles and pops or 'skips' during CD playback. Note that this will disable visualizations unless you are using Windows XP.

If subsequently you don't hear audio, look here. Additionally, if your drive is really not happy, turning on error correction with digital playback will actually cause skipping. On most people's computers it hopefully makes the sound sound Better, but on some A Win9x OS may hang right then and if it does, let me know , but the setting should be set Microsoft has an article on further trouble-shooting here for Win9x , and here for Windows XP.

In WMP10 you can edit all these fields within the Rip pane. AMG says here that it takes about six weeks or so for information to be added. If you are an artist or producer, they take direct submissions via an e-mail address on that page or this page , so go send them mail. You can then copy that new user's library on top of your library and you should be good to go. A: WMP7 or newer uses digital playback, which introduces this. Note that this addresses playback, and not burning CDs.

Older versions of WMP do not natively support but other software does. A: The headphone jack is only live during analog playback. Or plug your headphones into the soundcard's output plug. Second, WMP tests the quality of the digital read. Some players are more accepting of bad reads, but continuing to read digitally from a dirty source can result in very nasty errors, and as such WMP plays it safe and disallows digital reads from dirty source CD-ROM drives.

You may simply have a bad drive. Also, see the following question Let Windows decide the drive letter and you'll be fine. A: Your analog CD playback is probably broken. Usually this is because the tiny little wire that connects the back of the CD-ROM drive to the motherboard has fallen out.

They're really fragile that way. A: See this web page for details on how to do this for Win9x systems. To disable auto-play of CD's in Windows , do the following: 1. Go to the start menu 2. Open a new Microsoft Management Console by running "mmc" without the quotation marks at a command line. Click Add to display the installed snap-ins.

Click Finish 7. Click Close 8. Click OK 9. Double-click on Disable Autoplay Choose Enabled Apply the change Open My Computer 2. Right-click on the drive in question and select "Properties" 3. Restart your computer. Ensure that this service is Started and set to Automatic. If that's set, check the Group Policy Editor - run "gpedit. If you're still having problems, find the TweakUI power toy and use that - that has some extra little AutoPlay options.

Vance points out that you can simply hold down the left shift key for seconds after you insert the CD to disable AutoPlay temporarily. It only refreshes when I restart WMP Q: Why does the player not recognize a new CD when I put it in? It only refreshes when I restart WMP. Turning AutoPlay back on should fix this.

Select Properties. Select the AutoPlay tab. Thanks to Neil for this. Q: I want to rip at a WMA bitrate higher than kbps. How do I do this? The UI won't show you that you're using that in the Rip tab, but it'll be at that value. LAME may have something in the works, but any other package claiming to be 'free' is likely pirated software.

Why do I get error 0xc00d0faa "Windows Media Player cannot copy the file If that value does not exist, then you'll want to make that the "PreferredCodecPath" at that location is pointing to "l3codecp. If both of those check out, then you'll want to switch to a different bitrate. If the value of "PreferredCodecPath" is "l3codeca.

It should never be that ever. A: Yes. The other codecs "Windows Media Audio variable-bitrate " and "Windows Media Audio lossless" are not backward compatible and will require the user to be connected to the Internet so that they can download a new Windows Media Audio codec.

See this for more information. Q: Why do I get the error "The system cannot find the path specified. Note that the path may look correct, but you should ensure you click Apply anyways uncheck and recheck a checkbox on this page to get Apply to enable itself. If that doesn't work, follow these steps. Also note that you can't copy from CD using the 9 Series player over a remote terminal server connection. A: WMP can do this faster than real-time and you don't pick up any noise from other audio sources on your sound mixer.

Q: Why isn't there any audio in the tracks I ripped from my CDs using analog ripping? I don't like silent files If you're getting background noise, mute the Line In and Microphone input in your system's volume settings. Q: I get the message "Windows Media Player cannot play the protected file because a security upgrade is required.

Do you want to download the security upgrade? This should be 2. Then start WMP and try the content again. You can possibly fix this via resetting your DRM store step one is probably not relevant to you. You would then need to attempt to Individualize again, either through the web page or unregmp2. Because this is destructive, if you cannot Individualize the problem here , you are far better off contacting actual support. Q: How do I fix a crash in "Indiv A: Follow these steps.

Q: Why can I only play files I rip back on the computer I ripped them to, and not on another computer on the network for example? A: This limitation is because of the DRM applied to the file, which licensed the file solely for your usage on that computer. Q: I can no longer access my DRM'd protected content A: If you backed up your licenses, restore your licenses. Q: I'm getting error 0xc00d11d6, 0xc00d or 0xc00d trying to play back my DRM'd content.

A: Look here for 0xc00d or here for 0xc00d Q: Why isn't my content transcoded when I transfer it to my portable device? A: The file you are trying to copy to your portable device may be protected. A protected file is a digital media file that is secured with a license to prevent illegal distribution. When transferring to a portable device, the Player cannot convert protected content to other encoding formats for example, from WMA to MP3 or to other bit rates for example, from kilobits per second Kbps to 64 Kbps.

When transferring to a portable device, the Player can only convert unprotected content to other formats and bit rates. Q: I want to record an audio CD using my music. A: This is built into Windows XP and newer. Just use the "Burn" tab. You could manage much more full-fledged burns with the full Nero or Roxio burning software. Also note that as of Nero 5. You will not be able to use audio plug-ins to affect how a CD is burned, meaning that you can not use the crossfading plug-in to burn a crossfaded CD.

If you're having problems with this and have up-to-date firmware for your burner check your CD burner vendor's web site for that , there is an update available at Windows Update which may be of help. Furthermore, this is the actual Error Code Number to Error Description mapping table, which is also referenced with a little more data here - but note that MSDN's reference does not have the error code number. Make sure you check out the actual Microsoft article on CD creation problems.

Finally, Kathy's Steps Towards Happy Burning are that helps fix stuff like 0xE invalid alignment , 0x filter in wrong state and whatnot : Roxio's Drag to Disk or Sonic's "DLA" will interfere with burning - you may need to turn that off if you're using it - right-click on the drive and choose "Disable drag to disk for this drive" Run "regsvr32 wmp.

Once that completes, restart the player and check to see if burning is now functional. This can fix the "Interface not registered" error. If it's not listed as a compatible burner for Windows XP, it may not work correctly.

You may want to make sure if this is Windows XP that the drive is enabled for burning. If your CD recorder is recognized, you will see a Recording tab. If you are having problems copying to CDs and your CD recorder is recognized in My Computer, verify that the Enable CD recording on this drive check box is selected in the Properties dialog box for that drive. Make sure you have all burner-related updates from Windows Update. There's another burning update here - I'm not sure if that's on Windows Update.

Set your burn speed lower on your drive. You can do this by right-clicking on the drive in Explorer, clicking Properties and lowering the speed on the Recording tab. Try different media. Sometimes, the quality of media is just not good. Try to burn some different songs - sometimes data gets corrupted. Try uninstalling and reinstalling the driver for the CD burner. Windows Media Player is simply reporting that the rest of the tracks will not fit on the completed CD because it has already been closed after burning one track.

Because audio CDs need to be compatible with a wide range of consumer CD players, there is a greater likelihood that audio burns will fail due to buffer underruns. Closing some running programs and lowering drive speed may help. This either indicate that a file in the burn list can't be found the location can't be resolved OR that WMP is busy trying to provide Volume Leveling information. In the first case, you should attempt to verify that the files in the burn list exist by playing them.

Q: What if I want to burn a data CD? Or perhaps use Nero or Adaptec or another utility that will burn data CDs. A: There were a bunch of tools to do this on WMPlugins. If on the other hand you want a more full-fledged ability to print out the files you have on your system, Galley recommends Media Jukebox.

Gary recommends eMusic Tag Editor. How do I restore them? Alternatively, you could search your system for "Fresh tracks -- yet to be played.

A: According to Adaptec, this is very bad. Uninstall Adaptec 3. If you really want to keep Adaptec 3. The 7. Q: I get error 0xc00d - "A CD recorder burner was not detected". Connect a CD recorder, and try copying again. To verify that your CD recorder drive is recognized, open My Computer, and in the Devices with Removable Storage area, right-click the drive, and then click Properties.

If it does not have a "Recording" tab there, the system does not recognize that drive as supporting burning. A: You're likely having video card driver problems. Uninstalling that software and potentially reinstalling WMP should fix the issue. There's an article about the problems with WinDVD here.

If you need to turn off a 3rd party MPEG codec and don't know how to uninstall it, the Radlight tool is what you need then. Or the DirectShow Filter Manager should work. In some cases, the video card driver's video overlay may not be working properly follow the steps here to work around that driver bug. Note that mcspmpeg. It can cause crashing errors in playback. Most notably it's been known to make it so that you can't click on an Internet link to an MPEG and have it work right.

Either renaming the files mcspmpeg. Note that these two files may be installed in multiple places all over your system, so you'd need to make sure you search for them if you're having problems with them. Also, if you get a crash in "encwdm. Run: regsvr32 encwdm. If you get a crash in "mplapx. Build a graph based upon the file in question - that should show you which filter is being loaded, and which you would likely want to remove. At a certain point in the file, video playback or playback entirely stops.

A: There's been an upsurge of crappy quality files on the Internet in the past years. Your MPEG is joined together poorly.

You will need to run it through an MPEG editor to get it working correctly. A: Go to the system's Volume Control and mute the "CD Player" mixer line - it's trying to produce audio for you, but shouldn't be. A: Not sure. Q: I get the message "This version testing date has expired. You may need to reinstall WMP in reinstall mode to fix this.

If you could, let me know what shareware player you were using so maybe v. A: Go into the Display settings and turn down either your Screen Resolution or Color Quality - the video card driver isn't supporting your current settings fully. If you have more than one MPEG2 decoder on the system, any arbitrary decoder may be being used for playback. To determine what DVD decoders are installed on your machine, run "dvdupgrd.

I have personally had troubles due to the nVidia decoders nvauddec. You will need to use "mplayer2. While playing back the file within WMP6, go to the File:Properties menu option and from there you will be able to access the MPEG Audio decoder property page which will let you select which audio channel to use. Q: What codec do I need to play this file? Once playback begins or partially fails, you will either get a pop-up error or the file will turn red in the Now Playing list.

If you don't get an error, right-click on the file in that Now Playing list and select Error Details. On this error message, click Web Help. That information should tell you what codec you will need to obtain. Please note that the Microsoft codec list is more robust than any other source, so this is a really good starting point.

Alternatively, opening up the file in "mplayer. This player will pop up something of the nature: "Video not available, cannot find 'vids:XXXX' decompressor. The official Microsoft site for this information is currently here. If what you're missing is a Microsoft system codec that you've accidentially uninstalled, this page may help.

Note that you are probably not the only one who's having trouble playing that piece of content: getting the content provider to either reencode with a more popular or non-pirated codec may save hundreds of other users the same pain you experienced. Or at least have the vendor link to the relevant codec Finally, if none of that helps, make sure your connection bitrate is set, as if the connection bitrate is set or detected too low, the Windows Media Server communicating to you may 'thin' out the video so that the file can stream to you successfully given your detected connection bitrate.

Where can I find one? Other companies probably make 'em too. A: This may fail for good reason. Reencode the content. Intel sold Indeo to Ligos, who to my knowledge stopped development on it and started charging for it. Old broken versions are what's out there, so it's going to be a bad experience to keep using this. Don't bother: get the content provider to reencode the content to a supported codec, thus solving the problem for everyone.

Q: What does it mean if I get the error - "The audio codec identified by the format tag 55 is required to play this file. A: That means that your MP3 decoder has been broken by something that you've done to your system.

The easiest way to fix this should be to find the file l3codeca. The player error messages may refer to them by hex values - 0x55 is 85 decimal.

For example, on Windows 95 or Windows NT 4. A: The Codec download page is what you want. You will need to obtain a license if you want to redistribute this to others. Q: What does it take for codec download to succeed? A: Codec download is no longer supported on Windows 7. Note that only codecs used in Windows Media files will be downloaded. This isn't a good path to try to get AVI codecs. A: If you're having this issue with MP3 files, it's likely that you have the FhG Professional codec, intentionally or otherwise.

The fix for this would be to either rename "l3codeca. Then WMP might do one more codec download, but then it shouldn't happen again. Note that Windows Media Player 9 Series will not do a codec download for this case, but will instead break cross-fading and other benefits of how WMP uses pre-rolling.

If that's not the issue: Presumably a third party DirectShow filter has badly misregistered itself, claiming that it can support decompression of data that it in actuality can not.

Generally if you can't isolate and remove whichever bad application did this, you'll need to destroy and rebuild your DirectShow filter database. This explains how to rebuild the DirectShow filter database.

The DirectShow Filter Manager should also let you figure this out more easily Note that in many cases it will still be possible to play back the content after codec download regardless of codec download success, because at that point WMP will look again at available codecs that say they support the applicable file, but this time ignoring the misregistered filter that wasn't able to play the file.

Sadly, there's no way to persist this "distrust" of that codec - you really need to figure out what the bad codec is and uninstall it. If you can identify which codec is misregistered on your system, let the vendor know so they can fix the issue.

The last suggestion is only for expert users, though. Q: How do I distribute the Windows Media codecs to the users on my intranet who do not have Internet access? A: You'll want the Windows Media codec redistributable. Q: I installed a codec pack and now I'm experiencing problems. A: Codec packs are generally non-original works consisting of pirated software. As the packages are installing fairly random files to your system, you should not expect things to work properly if you install a "codec pack".

You would need to contact the codec "vendor" in order to figure out what the hell they did to your system. Installing random codecs is dangerous. It is extremely difficult in Windows to remove broken codecs, which means that you're better off simply not getting in trouble in the first place.

As of Sept 10 , the following codecs or codec packages are broken and will damage your system : Morgan Multimedia Stream Switcher aka MMSwitch - will crash any program using DirectShow Voxware MetaSound - will cause memory corruption on any application using sound DivX 5. As such, it may be more time effective to get the content vendor to reencode the file from the content source using more legitimate mainstream codecs that will not negatively impact users' systems. No one should ever install Morgan Multimedia Stream Switcher 'mmswitch.

It's dumb and that's called "DLLHell". As of this writing Sept , many codec packs use private install pathing. This is just dumb. If a security update is released, there's no way to reliably get that or apply it. Installing the old version via any codec pack accidentally would then break you again. Codec packs are bad software put together by amateurs whose mistakes will damage your system's stability.

We're all amateurs, but I'm extremely interested in keeping your system stable. Most codec pack vendors have shown little integrity or competence: it's a real challenge to keep up with exactly how they've decided to mess up your system today. This is disgusting software. No competent professional should ever be recommending one. No knowledgable amateur should ever be recommending one.

Users suffer because they exist, and they affect the system at such an internal level that most users never really understand why they've started to see weird bad behavior.

I cannot overstate how incredibly incompetent codec packs are. These are the single worst thing that has ever happened to Windows multimedia ever. It was one thing for, say, Morgan Multimedia to write a bad crashing piece of software: it's entirely another for incompetent jerks to fob millions of copies of that off to user's systems where it then will proceed to randomly corrupt memory and crash.

If you're feeling daring, you can try to use a "good" codec pack such as CCCP. See here for how to find out what codec you need. Making users your guinea pigs sucks no matter who is doing it. You'll need to get a correctly encoded version of the file in order to play it. A: See this information. Q: I'm having sound problems muffledness, echoes, errors, speed issues, etc. Q: I'm getting error 0x trying to play back content A: Check for sound card driver updates, both from your vendor and from Windows Update also make sure you have the latest DirectX there.

If you're on Vista, you will likely benefit from going to the Sounds control panel under Hardware and Sounds , double-clicking on 'Speakers' and then turning off any Enhancements or System Effects. The Microsoft article on trouble-shooting audio can be found here.

If it doesn't, you must run this to switch back to using DirectSound. Also, this and this page contains some good generic audio trouble-shooting info. If it sounds like it's a karaoke machine, then you may have a karaoke mode on the speakers that you might want to turn off.

Note also that Total Recorder installs a virtual sound card driver, which can cause problems as well. Switch back to your normal sound card driver and you should be okay again. Q: Why do I only get two speaker sound out of my surround digital speakers? Select speakers and click on Properties. Click OK twice to get back to the player. Close and reopen the player.

Q: Why does my computer reboot during audio playback from the net or stutter repeatedly during regular audio playback? If you don't have an IRQ conflict, go here for more help. Q: My audio gets distorted when I scroll or move the mouse or otherwise have lots of video movement onscreen. A: Your video processing is interfering.

Right-click on the desktop, choose Properties. Click Settings. Click Advanced. Click Troubleshoot. Adjust the Hardware acceleration and you should be fine. Finally, George says that he fixed this by turning off "Show window contents while dragging". A: WMP uses both the main volume control and the Wave volume control.

Bypassing the activation when installing Windows Media Player 11 is pretty simple. Basically what we will do is download the setup file. After you have the file downloaded usually named: wmpwindowsxp-xenu. A lot of. Once you do this, you will see a folder called wmpwindowsxp-xenu.

Go into the folder and now we will manually run the two files needed for Windows Media Player 11 to install. This will in turn install Windows Media Player 11 and will bypass the activation part of the installer.