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"Access Denied" Error Message When You Try to Play DVD on a Computer That Has a MediaMatics Decoder When you attempt to play a digital video disc (DVD) by using Windows Media Player on a system that has a MediaMatics decoder installed, the DVD may not play. You may receive one of the following error messages: Access is denied. You do not have...

HOW TO: Copy Music to and from an Audio CD in Windows XP This article describes how to copy music from an audio CD to the computer's local hard disk by using Windows Media Player (WMP). You can then copy the data back to an audio CD if you want to. Copy Music Files from an Audio CD Insert the Audio CD and...

Dialing with a Modem May Interrupt the Audio Playback When you play audio files with Windows Media Player, the audio may be interrupted when you attempt to make a dial-up connection.

How to Download Codecs Automatically in Windows Media Player for Windows XP This article describes how to download codecs automatically in Windows Media Player for Windows XP.

Mute May Not Work Properly While You Are Playing MIDI Audio When you are playing Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) files in Windows Media Player, you may be unable to mute the playback. However, you may still be able to control the audio through the Volume Control tool.

Tracks Have Different Audio Levels When You Make a Compilation Audio CD-ROM with Windows Media Player When you play a compilation audio CD-ROM that you made with Windows Media Player, the audio levels from track to track may not be consistent. For example, some songs or audio tracks may be very loud, and others may be noticeably more quiet.

Track Time Is Displayed Incorrectly for .MP3 Files in Windows Media Player When you play certain Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) layer 3 (.mp3) files in Windows Media Player for Windows XP, the total track time may be displayed incorrectly. Also, you may not be able to seek correctly on these files and the file..

Unable to Play Audio in Windows Media Player When You Are Using a Remote Desktop Connection When you are connected to another computer through a Remote Desktop connection and you try to play audio in Windows Media Player, you may receive the following error message: Cannot play back the audio stream: No audio hardware is available. After you...

WMP: "Windows Media Player Cannot Play This File" Error Message Appears When You Try To Play an Audio CD When you try to play an audio CD in Microsoft Windows Media Player, you may receive the following error message: Windows Media Player cannot play this file. Connect to the internet or insert the removable media on which the file is located then try to...

HOW TO: Display the Volume Icon in the Notification Area in Windows This article describes how to display the Volume icon in the notification area in Windows XP.To Display The Volume Icon By default, the Volume icon is not displayed when you initially install Windows XP on your system. To enable the display of the...

XWave Mach One Sound Card Is Not Compatible with Windows XP After you install Microsoft Windows XP on a computer that has a Labway XWave Mach One sound card, the computer may not have any audio playback.

Some Motherboards with Dual-Processor VIA Chipsets May Have Noisy Playback After You Record Audio On some dual-processor computers that have VIA chipsets, if you record audio by means of the microphone input, the playback may contain static sounds.

USB-Based Sound May Be Distorted During Heavy File System Input/Output When you connect audio speakers to the universal serial bus (USB) port on your computer, digital audio playback may be choppy or distorted during playback. This problem is more common during heavy file input/output (I/O) operations, such as when you...

ISA Non-Plug and Play Sound Cards Are Not Detected Microsoft Windows XP does not provide native support for ISA non-Plug and Play devices, including sound cards. It is sometimes possible to obtain limited functionality from an ISA non-Plug and Play sound card if the card manufacturer offers Microsoft...

Setting in the "Move All Slide Indicators at the Same Time" Check Box Does Not Hold After You Click OK After you click to select the Move all slide indicators at the same time check box in the Speaker Volume dialog box, the setting does not persist after you click OK.

Siren Jukebox Xpress Version 2.0 Does Not Install on Windows XP Home Edition When you try to install Siren Jukebox Xpress version 2.0 on a computer that runs Windows XP Home Edition, the installation stops and the following error message appears: Internal Error 2608. 0 The following installation status report also appears:...

Upgrade to Windows XP Generates Error Message "Code 28" About Windows Sound System Drivers When you upgrade to Windows XP from Windows 2000, Device Manager shows the Windows Sound System Compatible (WDM) driver as having a problem. When you view the device properties, the following description appears: Code 28 (The drivers for this device...

MIDI Playback Through the MPU-401 Port Changes Tempo Unexpectedly After Resuming from Hibernation If you have installed Crystal Sound Fusion 4281, MIDI file playback through the MPU-401 port unexpectedly changes tempo and continues to vary in tempo after your computer resumes from hibernation.

Error Message: Windows Cannot Execute DPVSetup.exe, Use Add/Remove Programs Control Panel to Install In the Sound and Audio Devices tool in Control Panel, when you click Voice Test on the Voice tab, you may receive one of the following error messages: Windows cannot execute DPVSetup.exe, use Add/Remove Programs control panel to install. DirectPlay...

How to Troubleshoot Program Compatibility Issues in Windows XP This article describes how to troubleshoot the most common program compatibility issues you may encounter on your Windows XP-based computer. Note that program compatibility issues are often called "application" compatibility issues.

List of Sound and Gameport Drivers in Windows XP The following list are the audio and game port drivers that are included in Windows XP.

Sony IEEE 1394 Audio Device Does Not Work When You Try to Play Back Full-Duplex Transmission When you use a Sony Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1394 audio device to play back full-duplex transmission or to perform a sound test that checks full-duplex transmission, the audio playback or the test program may stop..

Audio That Is Redirected When Using Terminal Services May Sound Garbled If you use audio redirection when you are using remote desktop connection, the sound may periodically become garbled or scratchy, but at other times may sound fine.

MIDI Files Do Not Play If You Use Audio Redirection Through Remote Desktop Connection When you use the Remote Desktop Connection client to connect to a Terminal Services session from another computer, you have the ability to bring sound to the client computer by selecting an option on the Local Resources tab of the Remote Desktop...

The Acoustic Echo Cancellation Technology May Not Work with Various Sound Cards This article describes the Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) technology and how it may not work with various sound cards.

You Do Not Hear Any Sound During a Terminal Server Session After you establish a Terminal Server session on a computer that runs Windows XP, you do not hear any sound during the session.

No Sound on Panasonic Toughbook CF-45 with Yamaha DS1 Audio Device After Windows XP Installation After you install Windows XP on a Panasonic Toughbook CF-45 portable computer that has a Yamaha DS1 audio device installed, you may not hear any sound. Device Manager may display a black exclamation point (!) next to the audio device. The audio device...

Sound No Longer Plays After You Unlock a Computer That Has ATI ALL IN WONDER Video Adapter After you unlock a Windows XP-based computer that is running a video capture program and that has an ATI Technologies ALL IN WONDER video adapter installed, you may no longer hear the sound that was playing before you unlocked the computer. This issue...

Existing Setting to Turn Off Digital CD Audio Playback Is Reversed After Upgrade to Windows XP If you are using an Afreey DVD-ROM Model DD-4010E, and you turned off digital playback of CD audio before you upgraded to Windows 2000, you may find that this preference is ignored when you upgrade to Windows XP. The Enable digital CD audio for this...

Audio Files May Not Playback If You Upgrade to Windows XP with an ISA Plug and Play Aztech 3001 Sound Card Installed If you have an ISA Plug and Play Aztech 3001 sound card installed, and you upgrade your computer to Windows XP, your computer may not playback any audio files. Also, under Sound, Video, and Game Controllers, you may find an unknown ISA device that is...

Low/Critical Battery Alarm Does Not Play the Sound That You Specify When the power level is low in the battery of your portable computer, Windows XP may play a Low/Critical Battery Alarm sound that does not match the Low/Critical Battery Alarm sound that you selected under Sounds and Audio Devices Properties.

Sound Does Not Play After Upgrade from Windows NT 4.0 on an IBM Computer After you upgrade your IBM computer from Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 to Windows XP Professional, sound files may not play and the Startup sound may not play. The following error message may appear: Windows Media Player Error Cannot play back...

Audio-Enabled Program May Transfer Its Sound to Other User Profiles When the Fast User Switching Feature Is Used If a user leaves an audio-enabled program running, and then a subsequent user profile is accessed by means of the Fast User Switching feature, the audio may be heard in the newly logged-on profile even though the program is being run under the...

"Play All" Option Does Not Play Song File That Is Nested Deep Within the My Music Folder When you store a song file deep within nested subfolders of the My Music folder and you click the Play All option to play the entire My Music folder, the nested file may not play.

There Is No Audio Playback After You Install the Sound Blaster Live! Sound Card On a Windows XP-based computer, if you are using a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! sound card, the computer may seem to play sounds but you do not hear any audio playback.

HOW TO: Erase Files From a CD-RW Disc in Windows XP If your computer is equipped with a CD recorder that supports CD rewritable (CD-RW) discs, you can erase and then reuse the rewritable disc. This article explains how to erase files from a read and write CD in Windows XP.How to Erase Files From a...

Previously Installed SBLive! Accessories Do Not Work After Upgrade from Windows Me to Windows XP After you upgrade from Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) to Windows XP, the Sound Blaster Live! sound card works, but several Sound Blaster accessories may not work. The upgrade report identifies "Sound Blaster Accessories" as "programs (that)...

Cdplayer.exe Still Present but Does Not Work Correctly After Upgrade from Windows 98 or Windows 2000 After you upgrade your computer from Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows 2000 to Windows XP, the existing CD Player program (Cdplayer.exe) remains, and a clean installation of Windows XP does not install any new version of Cdplayer.exe. If you...

Volume Is at the Maximum for WAV and MIDI Files and Master Volume Is Inconsistent When you first install audio drivers, the volume for WAV and MIDI files may be set at the highest level for all audio cards. Also, the master volume is not consistent; it is either in the middle or at maximum volume. This behavior occurs with the...

No Sound When You Try to Use the Voice Features of NEC Internal Data/Fax/Voice Modem When you try to use the speakerphone or play a voice message by using an NEC internal data/fax/voice modem, there may not be any sound. Device Manager displays an exclamation point in a yellow circle for the NEC internal modem.

CD Table of Contents Lists Incorrect Number of Tracks or Length of Tracks In some programs that read compact discs (CDs), when you view the table of contents for a CD, the program may not display the number of tracks and the time on the tracks correctly.

Startup Sound Plays Irregularly After Upgrade to Windows XP from Windows Me After you upgrade your Sony computer from Windows Millennium Edition (Me) to Windows XP Home Edition, when the computer restarts, the startup sound plays irregularly.

Sound Does Not Play from CrystalWave 4.0 Audio Wavetable Synthesis After Upgrade from Windows NT 4.0 After you upgrade a Microsoft Windows NT 4.0-based system to Windows XP, your Crystal MIDI player (CrystalWave 4.0 for Audio Wavetable Synthesis) may not produce any sound when you play a MIDI file.

Sound Card with Aureal 8820 Chipset May Hang Windows XP When you run Windows XP on a computer with a sound card that is based on the Aureal 8820 chipset, your computer may stop responding (hang), forcing you to restart the computer. This is most likely to occur when you log on if you have a sound event...

CD-ROM Access Is Missing and Messages Cite Error Code 31, Code 32, Code 19, or Code 39 After You Remove Easy CD Creator in Windows XP After you remove either compact disc (CD) recording software or other software from your computer, your computer may exhibit the following behavior: In My Computer, there is no access to your CD-ROMs. In Device Manager, the following error message...

Adjusting the Microphone Control in the Phone Window Does Not Change the Volume When you drag the Microphone slider in the Phone window to adjust the volume, the microphone setting does not change in the system volume control. The microphone may also show mute as the selected setting under the system volume control, although in...

Moving the Speaker Control During a Call Also Changes the Microphone Control When you move the speaker gain control during a call, the microphone gain also changes.

HOW TO: Resources for Troubleshooting Sound Problems in Windows XP This article is intended to assist you in using the Sound Troubleshooter that is included in Windows XP Help and Support Center. The Sound Troubleshooter includes step-by-step instructions for troubleshooting the following sound problems in Windows...

A "STOP: 0x1000008E In Emupia2k.sys" Error Message Appears After You Upgrade from Windows 2000 On a computer that has a Creative Technology Audigy sound card installed, you may receive the following error message on a blue screen after you upgrade the computer from Microsoft Windows 2000 to Windows XP: STOP: 0x1000008E (c0000005, f80ef98c,...

"Incorrect Function" Error Message When You Access the CD-ROM Drive, DVD-ROM Drive, or CD-RW Drive When you access the computer's CD-ROM drive, DVD-ROM drive, or CD-RW drive after you upgrade to Windows XP, you may receive the following error message, where drive is the drive letter of the CD-ROM drive, DVD-ROM drive, or CD-RW drive that you are...

The Startup Sound Is Not Played Correctly When You Start Windows Your startup sound may sound choppy, contain popping sounds, or pause while it is played. This issue occurs only with some hardware devices and drivers loaded. This issue does not affect the functionality of Windows XP.

Multimedia Programs May Not Work After You Install Windows XP SP1 If your computer uses the Yamaha AC-XG sound card driver, some multimedia programs may not work correctly after you install Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1). For example:

Problems with InterVideo DVD Software After Upgrading to Windows XP Service Pack 1 You may experience problems with the InterVideo DVD software after you upgrade to Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1). When you try to play a DVD by using the InterVideo DVD software, any of the following symptoms may occur: During DVD playback, you may...

Speaker Distortion and Noise with USB Speakers at a High Volume When you play an audio file through your USB speakers, you may hear distortion such as a popping or crackling noise. This symptom may occur about every minute when your USB speakers are at a high volume.

You Experience Low-Quality Audio When You Play 3D Pinball for Windows - Space Cadet When you play Microsoft 3D Pinball for Windows - Space Cadet, the audio quality may decrease and you may hear static, small clicks, or pops.

When you play a dual-language VCD, both language audio vocal channels play at the same time in Windows Media Center 2004 If you play a dual-language Video CD (VCD) in Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition 2004, Windows Media Center may play both language audio vocal channels at the same time. Additionally, the vocal channels may play through all the speakers that are...