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jm960326
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24th Jul 03 at 15:48   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Windows media player is always downloading a codec before it plays any MP3 that I seem to have??

I have version 8 at moment but cant understand why it needs to download everytime, normally only when Im playing all songs, if I load a song individually, seems to be ok and not need download??

Anyone any help??
DJGoMatt
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24th Jul 03 at 16:10   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
use winamp, problem solved
jm960326
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24th Jul 03 at 16:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
winamp pre-installed or not? Win xp pro I got.
Craig6682
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24th Jul 03 at 17:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I think what your problem is that Media Player is checking to see if you have a legal copy of the .mp3 file. I read about this is a mag about 6 months ago. A way around it is to use a firewall such as ZoneAlarm which is free to download to which you can then stop Media Player from accessing the Internet. Another solution is to use another program such as Winamp (to which i use.) The latest version of version 2 (2.91) plays video files as well now. Hope this helps you.
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24th Jul 03 at 17:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
You can download Winamp from www.winamp.com if you want it and the free version of ZoneAlarm from http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp.
jm960326
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24th Jul 03 at 18:06   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
cheers, Ive got Norton firewall enabled, but will download win amp too and stop WMP accessing the net.

cheers
Craig6682
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24th Jul 03 at 21:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
No probs m8

 
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