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How come I cannot play my old MP3 files after upgrading to Windows Media 11?

by on June 15, 2010

Q: Hi, I’m a high school teacher with a fully legal setup of Windows XP Pro and office enterprise. I updated the media player to mp11 (i think it was mp9). Now I can still play/watch videos but I can’t listen to my old mp3 music files.
I’ve tried installing codecs, rolling back – nothing works.

Also what I really want is a good all round media player and a simple (fast) avi to dvd burner (freeware) for the films I download. All my troubles started when I lost the freebee from giveaway of the day and started searching and downloading replacements.

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3 Responses to “How come I cannot play my old MP3 files after upgrading to Windows Media 11?”
  1.  
    Picked as best answer

    Try VLC Media Player (free) for all your video/mp3 playing needs: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

    Try Avi2DVd (freeware) for the burning: http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareAvi2Dvd.php?b2=1

    Also, for tracking down stuff like this in the future, http://lifehacker.com is a great resource.

     

    Mark (Uber Geek) says: on June 15, 2010 at 6:47 pm

  2.  

    Hi Mark, thank you.
    The VLC is great.
    As for the avi2dvd and imgburn, they make me feel like an idiot, not just a “digital immigrant”. Esp. the latter. After hours of playing about and reading the imgburn instructions I managed to burn something successfully . But it wouldn’t play on my dvd.
    I had two applications that did the job quite simply and lost them. I can’t understand why just moving a film from pc/avi to dvd/dvd isn’t simpler and faster.
    I guess the best answer is to upgrade my dvd player and use usb dok’s?
    I’ll check out the lifehacker site too, thanks. Immanuel

     

    idror24 (Newbie) says: on June 19, 2010 at 1:47 am

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    If you’re not happy with the results of the freeware options you’re probably going to need to look at some paid software.

    Nero is probably a best bet: http://www.nero.com They have trial versions available.

     

    Mark (Uber Geek) says: on June 21, 2010 at 7:34 am