Silence!

[John & Dawn Roddick]

Hum Hum Hum Hum Hum Hum

There is that better

[Marcella Ross]

DAWN!

I thought someone was giving me good advice there …….. I got all excited!!!!!!!!
I thought some smarty pants person knew how to fix my problem.

Thanks for the song but my sound is still f****d 🙁

[George Kern]

Marcella — is it when you try to play .mp3s and .wma files since you are saying through windows media player and winamp. I have had this problem before where the computer forgets the proper codec to use and it doesn’t play anything. Usually a restart fixes this. Heres how to check to see if you have a problem with a codec since your sound seems isolated to these two programs.
http://www.free-codecs.com/guides/Checking_Installed_VIDEO_and_AUDIO_Codecs_In_Windows_XP.htm

[Harry Cleary]

Hi Marcella,
If you chat on yahoo, and you have muted the sound in whatever room you are in, then you wont be able to hear your media player, go back into yahoo and unmute or turn up the volume and that will sort it. Not sure if this will cure the problem

[Robert Lambie]

quote Marcella:

my sound is still f****d 🙁

Farted? 😕 :lol1: :lol1:

probably wrong… but have you double cloicked the small speaker on the lower right of your screen to make sure none of the options are on mute?

[Marcella Ross]

No Rob, I’ve not farted! :lol1:
Checked all the sound settings, nothing is on mute everything is set at high. I can hear all clicks and email alerts it’s only when I try an mp3 or wma file.
George, I’m away to try that link to see what I can find out, thanks! 😀

[Marcella Ross]

:no1: ….. no luck George! 🙁
I’ve restarted twice ……….. that was my first port of call. I downloaded Sherlock the Codec program thingy ………….. (?) It just listed all the codecs but it didn’t seem to tell me any of them were broken ………….. or perhaps I’m too thick to know the difference 😕
Weird thing is that earlier this evening it was all working fine. Then I switched from one track to another and ……… nothing but silence….. just like that. So I tried several different mp3 files etc and none would play. The media player is showing that it’s playing the track but no sound.

bl00dy infuriating …………. I’m missing my music 😥

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Marcella:

…………. I’m missing my music 😥

never mind madge…….i’ll give yeh a phone now and sing a tune to you…better than nothing :lol1: :lol1: (pity lorraine wasnt on could have got her to belt out some bassey too) :lol1: :lol1:

nik

[Marcella Ross]

Thanks Ink, but the thought of you singing down the phone to me fills me with fear :yikes: I’d rather stick needles in my eyes ………. 😉

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Marcella:

Thanks Ink, but the thought of you singing down the phone to me fills me with fear :yikes: I’d rather stick needles in my eyes ………. 😉

:giggle:

nik

[Marcella Ross]

well, I downloaded Windows Media Player 11 ……………. nope! So I went to bed last night having given up. This morning I just restored my pc to yesterday morning and woo hoo ………….. got my sound back.
BUT ………. windows media player still won’t play, only Winamp? 😕
Never mind, at least I have sound again. I’ve got some Aerosmith blasting out right now, just to wake me up! 😛

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Marcella:

BUT ………. windows media player still won’t play, only Winamp? 😕

winamps better anyway :lol1: :lol1:

nik

[Lorraine Clinch]

quote Nicola Rowlands:

[
(pity lorraine wasnt on could have got her to belt out some bassey too) :lol1: :lol1:

nik

:no1: :no1: :shutup:

Told you before, nothing like Shirley!

[Hugh Potter]

fwiw, both my media players are working fine 😀 the only downside, is since my hard drive crash, i’ve only got about 3gig of mp3, i lost the other 14gig (hot) 😥

[Rod Young]

quote Marcella:

I’ve lost sound from the media player (windows or winamp). I’ve got sound on my pc as my email alerts etc all make sound no problem. BUT I can’t play any music. Everything is silent and it’s driving me mad!

Checked all the sound settings, nothing is on mute everything is set at high. I can hear all clicks and email alerts it’s only when I try an mp3 or wma file.

I’ve restarted twice ……….. that was my first port of call.

Hi Marcella,

1. Go Start >> Control Panel >> Sounds and Audio Devices.
2. Look around for anything that seems out-of-place.
3. In particular, click the Audio tab and confirm that the correct devices are being used for playback.

Quite likely, you will need to reboot Windows (i.e., refresh the system) for your changes to take effect. Keep it simple, do the changes you think are appropriate, and then reboot.

Hope that helps,

Rod

[Nigel Pugh]

Stop yapping for a minute ………………..now can you hear music :lol1:

[David Rowland]

volume slider in windows media player set too far to the left?

[Shane Drew]

quote Nigel Pugh – Grafityp:

Stop yapping for a minute ………………..now can you hear music :lol1:

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

[Marcella Ross]

thanks Rod. I had checked all those in the first instance, the correct devices are in place and all settings seem correct. Nothing is on mute either.
It’s really strange one.

Never mind at least Winamp is working!