I have Windows Media Player, version 7 - i checked and it said there are no updates or upgrades available. On to the story... Yesterday I was playing some MP3's (legal ones, honestly) and suddenly, when switching from one song to another, it simply stopped playing. I tried a few songs, and the bar would move, but no sound. Video files would play the video, but no sound. Default sounds, like that which plays when you start windows or get an error message WILL play as normal. My CD Player (the windows default) will play a CD just fine. I made MPlayer play a CD, and it did, although very quietly. I've run the battery of tests - SpyBot, AdAware, Avast, CW Shredder, HiJack - cos a day or two BEFORE this I got some spyware that I had to remove. Can that affect sound? Even if it could, MP3's were playing FINE until yesterday, in between two songs, when it suddenly quit. Any ideas? I'd appreciate the help.

I think you have file corruption - the codec has gone scatty, try another mp3 player such as realplayer, if this works ok then you need to reinstall wmp so that it re installs the codec Techy n Welsh

I have XP and in media player 9 it does that. Usually cause I have to much stuff open cause I have Little Ram. Other times its cause it feels like making me mad. Just Restart and it should work. If not go into Start>Run>dxdiag and find Audio 1 and or 2 and run the tests. Good luck!

Might be worth running DirectX diagnostics (should be in Start Menu under System Tools). It may or may not give you a lead on this. Derek.W

Thanks for your feedback. I just downloaded WinAmp and it worked great, so I deleted MPlaywer 7. However I'm now left with a MPlayer 6 that doesn't have a delete option in the Add/Remove Programs list. *sigh*