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Music no longer plays

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Menalaus

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I tried to edit the ID3 tags of a music file, but it said I had to have dBpoweramp to do so. So I download the program and install it and after installing it it asks me to restart my computer. I do so and now every time I try to play a music file in WMP I am brought with the following error:

Windows Media Player cannot play this file because there is a problem with your sound device. There might not be a sound device installed on your computer, it might be in use by another program, or it might not be functioning properly.

Now when I right-click on a music file the option to edit the ID3 tags it asks me AGAIN if I want to install the dBpoweramp, because I need it in order to do so, which I am fairly certain I did, despite the only thing being found within the drop down from the startup menu is a Help folder leading me to a help page about the dB codec working in WMP.

I really don't care any more about wanting to edit ID3 tags, please just tell me how to fix this. Now no sound at all is playing.
 
Possibly, that dBpoweramp software renamed the file extension on your audio files to some proprietary extension? For example Song1.mp3 might now be called Song1.dbP and now WMP doesn't know what to do with it.

Maybe you just need to reassociate that file type with WMP. Try this: In Windows Explorer, Right click one of the songs you want to play. Select Open With. If Windows Media Player is not one of the choices, select Browse and find the WMP.exe in C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player.

Be sure to check the box that says "Always open this file type with this program."

That's a quick fix. If that program renamed all your files, you'll have to batch rename them all back to .mp3 or whatever they were.
 
^ MD - it's telling him he has no sound device installed, not that WMP can't play that filetype.

Uninstall dbpoweramp. A while back it was freeware and pretty good, but it's crap now. Use foobar to play & convert music (WMP sucks biiiiiig dick), and use mp3tag to edit tags. Google whatever codecs you need when converting. I'd also advise against mp3. It's the oldest of the lossy codecs and shows its age. Even at 320kb it's a bit weak on the highs and lows. I like ogg-vorbis, but you can use Apple's aac as well. If you prefer mp3 because you have a portable that plays it, you can try Rockbox. Since flashing my ipod with that, I no longer have the hassle of using ephpod with it - I just drag & drop music onto the thing. Also, it plays ogg now 😛

If uninstalling dbpoweramp doesn't fix the no sound device error, let us know.
 
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