Windows Media Player Quit Playing Music

Jake Hall

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Weirdest thing happened. WMP on Windows 10 Pro suddenly won't play any audio file. It opens and nothing plays. Audio files (Mp3, Wav, Flac, MP4, etc) also quit working in my sound forge, and other media players.... I have absolutely no idea what the heck happened....
 
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I'm happy with it !
Although my onboard audio on the motherboard is quite good, and onboard audio in general has come a long way, I'm sure this is better.
It may be overkill for the rest of my equipment (I have an old 4.1 Altec Lansing speaker set and a Steelseries headset), I know it has more than enough quality and options for future use (I'm thinking of using my Yamaha surround receiver and 5.1 home speaker system at some point. As it is, my current speaker system and headset both use 3.5mm plugs, and I have hooked them to a splitter which allows me to control and use either or both at the same time independently of each other. My headset doesn't have an in-line volume control, so the Volume Hub that came with the SB zX is very...


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How do you like that card?
I'm looking at that one or the Asus Strix Raid
 
I'm happy with it !
Although my onboard audio on the motherboard is quite good, and onboard audio in general has come a long way, I'm sure this is better.
It may be overkill for the rest of my equipment (I have an old 4.1 Altec Lansing speaker set and a Steelseries headset), I know it has more than enough quality and options for future use (I'm thinking of using my Yamaha surround receiver and 5.1 home speaker system at some point. As it is, my current speaker system and headset both use 3.5mm plugs, and I have hooked them to a splitter which allows me to control and use either or both at the same time independently of each other. My headset doesn't have an in-line volume control, so the Volume Hub that came with the SB zX is very handy...my Windows volume never changes, and I control the speaker and headset volumes how I need.
 
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