Problem with Windows Media Player

Tiberius85 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-19-2008, 10:59 PM

Im having this odd issue with Windows Media Player. It will play music but only in 25-30second, usually 28 second segments. No matter where i start the song in the progress bar, it only plays 28 seconds and then goes to the next song. I tried playing music that was on the internal memory and my microSD card, neither worked fine. I then tried playing a long 30MB file music podcast and i had an error that said "Not Enough Storage is Available to Complete This Operation"

I used to listen to music on here all the time and have never had this problem with any of my windows mobile devices going back to WM2003 on my Axim even. Has anyone else had or seen this problem or have any idea how to fix it?

**Yay 4 Juggs** · #2 (**permalink**) 07-19-2008, 11:07 PM

when you transferred the music to your device did you use wmp from your desktop/laptop to sycn them? if so did you have encryption and drm turn off? can you try and use htc audio manager to play the file and see if it plays thru? this way we can elimitate the problem being the actual file and blame the problem in windows media player for mobile devices...

Tiberius85 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-19-2008, 11:13 PM

Yes ive done the sync of my music to the storage card with WMP on my desktop. But i also tried to play other files, non-DRM like the podcast i downloaded direct from a website and manually moved over to the device.

**Yay 4 Juggs** · #4 (**permalink**) 07-19-2008, 11:19 PM

to my knowledge wmpmo uses a cache system when playing files...the bigger the file the bigger the cache gets...as far as playing podcasts im not very sure it does...

Tiberius85 · #5 (**permalink**) 07-20-2008, 12:23 AM

The file size is 30MB but that is irrelevant.. its an .mp3 file thats about an hour long. I have compressed DVDs to a few hundred MB and watched them on WMP on WM before, so i KNOW its capable of doing it. Something is definitely WRONG with it.

jerryyyyy · #6 (**permalink**) 07-20-2008, 12:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Yay 4 Juggs

when you transferred the music to your device did you use wmp from your desktop/laptop to sycn them? if so did you have encryption and drm turn off? can you try and use htc audio manager to play the file and see if it plays thru? this way we can elimitate the problem being the actual file and blame the problem in windows media player for mobile devices...

HTCAudio manager... does this do the same job as WMP-Mobile? I am fed up with the M$ product and looking for an alternative. TCMP does not work with 6.1 ...

**Yay 4 Juggs** · #7 (**permalink**) 07-20-2008, 12:53 AM

yes does the same

Osteo · #8 (**permalink**) 07-20-2008, 08:20 AM

For those fed up with wmp, google GSPlayer. Its free, has a great built in equilizer and WOW HD features that I lost with wm6.1. Skinnable too! Supposedly it will stream audio but I haven't tried it yet.