WMA tracks that were coverted from MP3 won't play in WMP11

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Prashant - 28 Nov 2006 20:46 GMT

Hi,
I installed WMP11 on my XP Media Center 2005 box. After that, if I convert
an MP3 to WMA using Microsoft Plus Digital Media Edition, the new WMA file
won't play. This is using typical conversion settings (128 kbps, CBR). The
error is:

code: C00D119A
original error code: 80040200 An invalid media type was specified

I don't know what codec is missing, if any, but either way, I have set it to
download codecs automatically.
Other symptoms:
1.WMA tracks that were converted from MP3 prior to installing WMP11 play
just fine.
2. Newly converted WMA tracks play fine on WMP11 running on Vista RC1.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling WMP11, but that didn't help.
Could someone please help?
Regards,
Prashant

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zachd [ms] - 30 Nov 2006 17:07 GMT

If you run the converted WMA files through Windows Movie Maker (or any other
WMA encoding tool) to reencode them to WMA, do they then work?

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> Hi,
> I installed WMP11 on my XP Media Center 2005 box. After that, if I convert
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> Regards,
> Prashant

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