I Press "PLAY" and nothing happens...

[Rob G.]

I have a Dell 8200 PC with Windows XP. I recently rebuilt
my PC from scratch. After I copied back my 25GB of my
music (copies of my CD collection in wma format). WMP9
finds all my music but when I try to play any song all I
see is a "opening media" message at the bottem and then
nothing happens. I then thought I did somehting wrong
during the reinstall so I formatted my hard drive and
tried again. Same thing happens...I press "Play" and
nothing happens. Please help....thank you

 

[Ty]

Hello,

Did you copy protect any of the music before you rebuilt
your system?

Ty

 

[Rob G.]

Thank you for getting back to me so quickly. Yes I did
copy protect my music. I am against piracy with is why I
wanted to protect my music. was it a bad idea that I did
so?

Rob.

 

[Ty]

Hello,

No, it wasn't bad that you copy protect your music. It's
just that WMP 9 might not play the music unless you have
a license to play it. I don't know truly how it works
when you copy protect your own music, as I haven't done
it to my CDs. Look at these articles on Microsoft's
Knowledge Base: 297746 and 308638.

Ty