just_j Posted August 27, 2001 Share Posted August 27, 2001 I can not seem to get the Audio Player to work. It shows up on my task bar just fine. Everytime I try to play something... Explorer terminates and restarts itself. Anyone else seent his? I want to play music from my taskbar too. J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
me101 Veteran Posted August 27, 2001 Veteran Share Posted August 27, 2001 What build of XP are you using? And can you play the mp3/wma's in Winamp/WMP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just_j Posted August 27, 2001 Author Share Posted August 27, 2001 I am running RC2 and yes the MP3 and WMA files play fine in WMP8, Winamp and the media explorer bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
me101 Veteran Posted August 27, 2001 Veteran Share Posted August 27, 2001 That's what i'm running, rc2, 2526. Have ytou had any other problems related to explorer, and the rc2 install, was it a fresh install or an upgrade from another os? My rc2, is a fresh rc1, followed by a rc2 upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just_j Posted August 27, 2001 Author Share Posted August 27, 2001 Fresh install of RC2 into D partition. Have not had any problems. I also did some more testing with the player and can play WMA files ok. I also tested a MP3 at 64kbp and it would not play but also would not crash system. Starting to think this is a codec issue of some sort. Any idea for a good MP3 codec which supports ASM? Thanks for the replies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
me101 Veteran Posted August 27, 2001 Veteran Share Posted August 27, 2001 I have notied this with the player, that it seems to be very picky to what kind of MP3's I dragged and dropped onto it's little taskbar window. Maybe it's something with the mp3 decoder, possibly try a few different mp3's and see if you can find a pattern, maybe it does not like mp3's over a certain bitrate or having id3 tags OR maybe it's Microsoft's way of telling you that MP3 is shite and WMA is the best thing since bread! I have not had any of my MP3's not work on the player, but then again, I've only got it installed a day or so, I've not thrown my huge mp3 collection at it so it will fall over in misbelief! As to an MP3 codec which supports ASM, have a look on good olde Google, it usually works for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaos34 Posted August 27, 2001 Share Posted August 27, 2001 i haven't had any problems with mine... currently i use 2535 and the audio player powertoy with no problems, just drag n' drop and that's it. maybe it's an issue with earlier builds? =p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just_j Posted August 27, 2001 Author Share Posted August 27, 2001 Well after just annoying me to no get out I finally have that nifty little tool working. What I found was that Xing had an encoder and decoder listed in common files under program groups. This created a conflict. Once I removed them all is right with the world. Thanks to all for your replies. :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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