"Play All" stopped working

When I open a folder containing music files in Windows
XP, there is a link at the side which says "Play All". If
I click on this it should open up Media Player and play
all the music files in the folder. It used to work, but
now nothing happens. Nothing also happens if I select
some files and then click on "Play Selection". I can
still double click an individual file and it will play
okay. It's the same for all music folders, not just one.
I guess I must have changed a setting somewhere, but I
don't know what. Any ideas?

http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html#playall

"3rdday" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0f2201c399b4$95b66ef0$3101280a@phx.gbl...
> When I open a folder containing music files in Windows
> XP, there is a link at the side which says "Play All". If
> I click on this it should open up Media Player and play
> all the music files in the folder. It used to work, but
> now nothing happens. Nothing also happens if I select
> some files and then click on "Play Selection". I can
> still double click an individual file and it will play
> okay. It's the same for all music folders, not just one.
> I guess I must have changed a setting somewhere, but I
> don't know what. Any ideas?

THat's not it, I'm afraid. I don't ahve AVG and I already
have Service Pack 1

>-----Original Message-----
>http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html#playall
>
>"3rdday" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:0f2201c399b4$95b66ef0$3101280a@phx.gbl...
>> When I open a folder containing music files in Windows
>> XP, there is a link at the side which says "Play All".
If
>> I click on this it should open up Media Player and play
>> all the music files in the folder. It used to work, but
>> now nothing happens. Nothing also happens if I select
>> some files and then click on "Play Selection". I can
>> still double click an individual file and it will play
>> okay. It's the same for all music folders, not just
one.
>> I guess I must have changed a setting somewhere, but I
>> don't know what. Any ideas?
>
>
>.
>

I had the same annoying problem with Music Tasks > Play
All not working and also posted this problem to this list
on 20 October. After trying a dozen different things--
including uninstalling and reinstalling RealPlayer and
QuickTime (making sure neither was set to play mp3s),
checking WMP properties, file associations, folder
properties, the desktop.ini file for Music folders, stray
registry entries (such as stray entries from an old
WinAmp uninstall), etc I finally reinstalled WMP9 over
top of last the install. YMMV but this worked for me.
Play All once again works just fine. Only took me eight
hours or so of fiddling around. Good luck. PL

ps Don't have AVG antivirus either. At first suspected
recent WMP hotfix (Windows Update) but think this problem
came from duelling media players fighting over file
associations due to not being configured properly when
first installed...

>-----Original Message-----
>When I open a folder containing music files in Windows
>XP, there is a link at the side which says "Play All".
If
>I click on this it should open up Media Player and play
>all the music files in the folder. It used to work, but
>now nothing happens. Nothing also happens if I select
>some files and then click on "Play Selection". I can
>still double click an individual file and it will play
>okay. It's the same for all music folders, not just one.
>I guess I must have changed a setting somewhere, but I
>don't know what. Any ideas?
>.
>

tried suggested fixes but i still can't seem to get the
play all option to work :\

>-----Original Message-----
>I had the same annoying problem with Music Tasks > Play
>All not working and also posted this problem to this
list
>on 20 October. After trying a dozen different things--
>including uninstalling and reinstalling RealPlayer and
>QuickTime (making sure neither was set to play mp3s),
>checking WMP properties, file associations, folder
>properties, the desktop.ini file for Music folders,
stray
>registry entries (such as stray entries from an old
>WinAmp uninstall), etc I finally reinstalled WMP9 over
>top of last the install. YMMV but this worked for me.
>Play All once again works just fine. Only took me eight
>hours or so of fiddling around. Good luck. PL
>
>ps Don't have AVG antivirus either. At first suspected
>recent WMP hotfix (Windows Update) but think this
problem
>came from duelling media players fighting over file
>associations due to not being configured properly when
>first installed...
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>When I open a folder containing music files in Windows
>>XP, there is a link at the side which says "Play All".
>If
>>I click on this it should open up Media Player and play
>>all the music files in the folder. It used to work, but
>>now nothing happens. Nothing also happens if I select
>>some files and then click on "Play Selection". I can
>>still double click an individual file and it will play
>>okay. It's the same for all music folders, not just
one.
>>I guess I must have changed a setting somewhere, but I
>>don't know what. Any ideas?
>>.
>>
>.
>

Still didn't work after you reinstalled WMP 9? That
should've reset all of the defaults. Do you have other
media players or are you just using WMP 9? Have you used
a registry cleaner such as jv16 lately? Stray entries
(such as the old WinAmp key I mentioned) *might* also be
conflicting. If your desktop.ini file isn't corrupted,
I'm at a loss. As I mentioned, I thought it was a folder
properties problem at first--not WMP...Frustrating, isn't
it? But there *has* to be a solution. If you have any
other questions or come up with a fix, please repost.
Curious, PL

ps Link below may help, especially re desktop.ini/Special
Folders

http://computers.douglasthrift.net/.../#faq3_my_music


>-----Original Message-----
>tried suggested fixes but i still can't seem to get the
>play all option to work :\
>

i did have other players...real player and quicktime
player installed but the problem happened sometime after
installing these...i did try uninstalling both players
ang wiping all traces from the reg,then re-installing
wmp9 but no luck...if i do find a solution i will post my
findings