IE6 & Mp3's/background music (problems)

[FTLOSM]

I am having problems with mp3's and webpages that play background sounds when you enter.

I go thru firefox and it all works, hear background music, click mp3 links
things play fine (opens windows media player and plays video or mp3 files
fine). Yet when I use IE 6 here I get a red X when I click an mp3 flie to
play (on any page), and when I go to pages where I used to be able to hear
music I hear nothing in background.

I re-downloaded ie6 but that didnt fix it, chose reinstall all parts,
rebooted etc, still same issues,

The only thing I did differently was about a week ago I UN installed real
player, cuz when i would click on mp3's after installing real player it would open this weird browser type real player window that I hated (I like it when I click an mp3 for
windows media player to open and play the clip).

I had gone thru pages of settings, media player was set as default for mp3,
even in real player I went thru settings couldn't find anything about this
weird browser type window i was getting or how to remove it so I just
uninstalled real player 100%...

Just want things to work, what might be my answer here?

FireFox isn't bad I am just used to ie6 so i would like to get this working
again...

windows 2000 pro
IE 6.0.2800.1106
windows media player 9
all windows updates done,
antivirus running, no spyware (adaware and spybot checks)



Bill

 

[Willoughbyva]

Might try reinstalling media player. Could be a codec problem. You could try a codec pack, but that is up to you.

 

[FTLOSM]

I figured I had nothing to lose so I uninstalled mediaplayer, rebooted reinstalled it and it seems to have fixed everything fine 🙂

100% fixed, guess I just didnt think uninstalling real player would mess up mediaplayer..

Thanks

Bill 🙂