[King_V]

Ok, now I know I've had the combination of Firefox, Win98SE using 98lite, and Windows Media Player 6.4 working all nicely together sometime in the past, and allowing me to click on sound samples at Amazon, BMG Music, and so forth. However, it's not working now, and I don't quite understand why.

I'm stumped as to what's going on here.

I'm using Firefox 2.0 (though up until yesterday, it was Firefox 1.5.0.7, which wasn't any different in terms of the symptoms.

Anyway, when I go to a website such as Amazon, and try to listen to sound samples with Windows Media Player, the behavior is somewhat strange.

Ok, I know this isn't exactly everyone's taste in music, but take, for example:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001C8...2836372-7555314

When I try to play the WMP sample of the first track, WMP pops up, and says Done, but nothing apparently happens. I can right-click on it, however, and choose Error Details, which reveals the following:

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Could not connect to server: http://www.amazon.com//gp/music/clipserve/...2836372-7555314. Please see the help file. (Error=C00D0006)

Cannot open. Please verify that the path and filename are correct and try again. (Error=C00D0006)
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Of course, clicking on More Help brings you to Microsoft's website, which simply says that no further information is available. Yeah, thanks for nothing.

Anyway, here's the strange part: The actual link to the sound sample that causes this has a URL of:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/...2836372-7555314
which, obviously, is different than the URL provided in the error message.

However, if I copy the URL from the error message and paste it into the browser, voila! I get the sample!



That's weird enough, but here's where it gets stranger still. I tried listening to samples at bmgmusic.com. Again, not to everyone's taste, but here's the one I happened to try:
http://www.bmgmusic.com/catalog/product/cd...productId=32258

Click again on the first track. At least time, it actually pops up the error message for me.

The actual URL that the link has is:
http://sg1.allmusic.com/cg/smp.dll?link=un...zx&r=20.asx

The error message that I get from WMP is:
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Could not connect to server: mmsu://sg5.allmusic.com/022wma_28/s100/s10031/s1003157/s100315799kr1c2.wma. Please see the help file. (Error=C00D0006)

Could not connect to server: http://sg5.allmusic.com/022wma_28/s100/s10...315799kr1c2.wma. Please see the help file. (Error=C00D0006)

Cannot open. Please verify that the path and filename are correct and try again. (Error=C00D0006)
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Copy-pasting that HTTP url given in the error window however, does not work. It simply presents almost the same error, but with a somewhat different URL than originally, which in turn also won't work.



I recall reading some time ago (and searched for it, and can't find it), something saying that this might have to do with Internet Options. Of course, making this a tad trickier is that, with Internet Options, I'd have to go straight to the registry due to my 98lite install. I've no problem with that, if that's what it takes, but I could very well be confusing that issue with another issue. In any case, I don't know what's actually causing the errors I'm getting.

In fact, I'm not entirely sure even whether this is a Windows Media Player issue, an issue with some network setting or Internet settings with the OS, or a Firefox issue.

In other words, I'm totally lost.

Can anyone help? Suggestions? Solutions?

Thanks!

This post has been edited by King_V: 29 October 2006 - 04:22 PM

[rainyd]

Maybe there are better solutions but in my case it works well. I've found an extension called MediaPlayerConnectivity which I hope will help you to solve the problem - http://membres.lycos.fr/sethnakht/
Btw, I'm using combination MPC (Media Player Classic) plus VLC media player.

This post has been edited by rainyd: 02 November 2006 - 10:06 AM

[ldb]

I had no problem playing the file with WMP 6.4. I would suggest going to MS website and downloading a new copy of WMP 6.4. Then go to the codecs section and install the updated codecs package for 6.4. You can probably Google either or both.

[glocK_94]

Probably missing Codecs. WMP tries to connect but it fails (no connection allowed ?...).

Download this and try: WMP 9 Codecs for WMP 6.4

I don't believe internet options of IE play a role in that. But internet options of Firefox and WMP do. Check that and allow opening for this kind of files.

Update : link has been corrected

This post has been edited by glocK_94: 03 November 2006 - 04:20 PM

[ldb]

glocK_94, on Nov 3 2006, 04:15 AM, said:

Probably missing Codecs. WMP tries to connect but it fails (firewall / no connection allowed...).

Download this and try: WMP 9 Codecs for WMP 6.4

I don't believe internet options of IE play a role in that. But internet options of Firefox and WMP do. Check that and allow opening for this kind of files.

That codec package is for WMP 7.0 or higher. This is the one you want:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en

The only reason I checked was to see if this was a newer one that I should install, but it is for 7.0 or higher.

[glocK_94]

Oups. You're right ldb. My mistake. However your link require that Genuine advantage crap.
Here's a direct link:
WMP 9 Codecs for WMP 6.4