This is a re-post from the Windows Media/Windows Media Visualizations
sub-newsgroup.... Since that one doesn't seem to get too many traffic...
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Hello:

I am currently using XP SP2 on an Intel Core 2 E8500. Something strange
happened lately. Under WMP11, I can get video (e.g. avi)/music (e.g. mp3) to
play fine using it without any problems. However, when I choose to play a
music file (such as an mp3), where there would've been some sort of
visualization effects being played under the Now Playing tab, doesn't get
displayed.

When the music file is being played, I have gone and made certain that it is
indeed set on one of the Visualization effects (such as Alchemy) and that the
"No Visualization" is "not" selected. This didn't happen on other systems I
own or use at home or at the office. So the gist of it is, I hear the music
that played fine, but no Visualization is being displayed even when a
Visualization scheme is selected.

This normally isn't that big of a deal for me as I have another software to
handle my music playing (Winamp, and the Visualizations "do" work with it)
and I just use WMP11 mainly to just do a quick listen to music files just to
make sure they play correctly. I just don't remember there was a setting that
I did in WMP that could've cause this.... Could certain plug-ins be the
cause? A setting there perhaps? The last thing I did was changing some
AC3filter settings to allow S/PDIF passthrough out to my 5.1 speakers when
playing DVD titles, but that really shouldn't have messed with it, right?

Puzzled and hopes for some suggestions....

Thank you,

Shohoku79