Media Player 10 Problem.

slipd · 28 Sep 2006 at 00:47

Hi guys,

I’m having a small, but annoying problem, with Media Player 10

My .mp3 collection is arranged by albums in folders, and when I attempt to “Play All” as per the picture, the cursor sand-timer appears briefly, but nothing happens? MP10 fails to load.

Atm, I have to right-click the album selection and play them from there :mad:

Any ideas what’s going on? Any way I can restore MP10’s settings etc?

Thanks,

SW.

Steve09 · 28 Sep 2006 at 02:03

To be honest mate, I don't think you have Windows Media Player 10, looks like you have number 9.

I say this because my WMP 10s tracks, look like this...

See the difference from yours.

slipd · 28 Sep 2006 at 02:21

Thanks for the reply mate

No ideas then?

Cheers,

SW.

Steve09 · 28 Sep 2006 at 02:23

Thats a bit of a bitch then...

Why do mine look different?
What does play all do, I have never used it.

slipd · 28 Sep 2006 at 02:32

stevechapman said:
What does play all do, I have never used it.

In my case, all my .mp3's are in thier album folder, Play All, will "usually" play the whole album - its sort of a shortcut...

Cheers

SW.

Steve09 · 28 Sep 2006 at 02:34

Can't you just put them in WMP's Library and just play the 1st song then let it run?

Mrchu_ · 28 Sep 2006 at 03:01

damn.play all is good.is it some setting youve disabled at start up, that could be responsible?

the differnce in icons is probably just an install option

play all is when the mp3 window gives an option on the left.with windows xp

slipd · 28 Sep 2006 at 12:11

stevechapman said:
Can't you just put them in WMP's Library and just play the 1st song then let it run?

It's just what I'm used to? And it's quite annoying that it worked once, but not now :mad:

Is there a way of restoring MP10 by any chance?

Cheers,

SW.

Morlan · 28 Sep 2006 at 12:57

"Play All" doesn't work for me either. I'm using MP11. I don't use that feature anyway.

Voy06 · 28 Sep 2006 at 19:47

Morlan said:
"Play All" doesn't work for me either. I'm using MP11. I don't use that feature anyway.

When did that come out or is it a Beta version?

WotDa · 28 Sep 2006 at 20:27

Voy06 said:
When did that come out or is it a Beta version?

Was going to ask if it was the beta or a release. My beta version is annoying me ...

To the OP: Tried a re-install of MWP? The "Play all" option works for me with iTunes, despite being somewhat buggy. (Skips most of the tracks and picks a random one)

Morlan · 28 Sep 2006 at 21:46

Voy06 said:
When did that come out or is it a Beta version?

I do believe MP11 is still in Beta. But there's no reason for MP10 not to respond to the 'Play all' command.

"Play all" doesn't work in any folder. "Copy all items to CD" does work however. It's launches MP11 and goes straight to the 'Burn' section with the tracks attached.

When I click "Play all" I get an hour glass for a second and then nothing.

I'd imagine it to be quite a nuisance if you're used to choosing your music from Windows Explorer.

Energize · 28 Sep 2006 at 23:01

stevechapman said:
Can't you just put them in WMP's Library and just play the 1st song then let it run?

It takes longer doing it that way, I for one prefer just to goto my music folder and find the file. Takes about 1 second to do and you don't have to wait for media player to load before selecting the song.

WotDa · 28 Sep 2006 at 23:02

Energize said:
and you don't have to wait for media player to load before selecting the song.

No but you need to wait for it to load to play the song.

Morlan · 28 Sep 2006 at 23:45

WotDa said:
No but you need to wait for it to load to play the song.

Yes but you can go off and tidy your bed while MP is loading. Then you can still tidy your bed with the music starts playing. Otherwise you would have to load MP, pick your nose, then choose your song, then tidy bed - Time wasted.

:confused:

I'm off to bed!

slipd · 29 Sep 2006 at 01:20

WotDa said:
To the OP: Tried a re-install of MWP? The "Play all" option works for me with iTunes, despite being somewhat buggy. (Skips most of the tracks and picks a random one)

Thanks, any idea of how you would re-install MP10 :confused:

I think I've downloaded all of its updates too, manually, maybe there’s a bad file or something?

So, does anybody know if there’s away of starting from scratch with MP10

Cheers,

SW.

WotDa · 29 Sep 2006 at 04:01

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=34682

Linkeh for the download.

Just un-install it first and backup playlists etc just incase they get wiped with the un-install.

Should do it.

slipd · 30 Sep 2006 at 00:51

Isn't that the link for MP11 though :confused:

Cheers,

SW.

Energize · 30 Sep 2006 at 02:08

WotDa said:
No but you need to wait for it to load to play the song.

Yes but you don't have to wait then search the libarary for the song. So you can tell it to play then do something else.

WotDa · 30 Sep 2006 at 03:29

sam.wheale said:
Isn't that the link for MP11 though

Cheers,

SW.

Erm.. It was the MWP 10 link. Honest.