IE Can not download/play a MP3 file

[Bob]

HI:
I'm running Vista, and I have a website that I have download a MP3
file to. I've created a page for my web site with that link on it,
however, every time I click on the link, or enter the url for the mp3
file directly, IE comes up that I could not find the page.


Now, I've done this same exact thing using FireFox, and it works
perfect, both ways find the file, and play the mp3 correctly.

I've done the same thing on my work computer, and it found ,
downloaded and played the mp3 correctly.

I've even asked Godaddy tech support if everything was correct on the
web site, and they said yes, they were able to download/play it.

FYI: It's not some sort of copied music file, It's a recording that I
created of a training phone call, so there's not copy protection
involved either.

This seems to be a problem with Vista and IE, since I can play on
others, and download in Firefox.

THANKS for any info.
-Bob Umphred

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

What happens when you D/L and play them in Firefox - what player are you
using to play them?

If Windows Media Player is broken, that would explain a lot. Do you get any
crash reports? What changed on the system before the player broke?

When you try to start the player, does it show up in Task Manager's Process
tab (as wmplayer.exe), or what exactly happens there?

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

Gotcha.

How did you install the VLC player?

IE does a validation check on the local system file association - it would
appear that the WMP association may be broken in part currently. If you go
to the Default Programs control panel and reassociate to WMP there, that
*should* fix it up.

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;882696']What happens when you D/L and play them in Firefox - what
player are you
using to play them?

If Windows Media Player is broken, that would explain a lot. Do you get
any
crash reports? What changed on the system before the player broke?

When you try to start the player, does it show up in Task Manager's
Process
tab (as wmplayer.exe), or what exactly happens there?

VLC mediaplayer. That works fine.

It does seem mediaplayer doesn't work at all. I tried manually updating
it and it says it's the latest version etc. I never really even tried it
before - I just recently got this laptop, it came with Vista factory
setup, and I've basically just added Office and spent a week downloading
updates and getting around issues in Vista, such as buying new
accessories like printers and TV tuner USB stick because there were no
Vista drivers for those. Now it works very well, finally, except for the
mediaplayer.

So...there has been no significant changes in the system, I do believe
this may have been the first time I have ever attempted to use the
mediaplayer aside from I think I did launch it at some point and updated
it as per windows suggestions. I have enabled automatic updates and it
seemed to me at some point it would do little else than d/l updates
constantly, but after about a week it got 'em up to date and now the
error messages in Vista are indeed way more rare. I still get a
'Phoenix' something crashing whenever I wake up from sleep but it
doesn't seem to affect anything much.

Lemme try to launch wmplayer...well I'll be damned. Now it seems to
work just fine! Very strange. Well I just rebooted, so that may explain
it.

The www media links still won't work, though. If I download the file on
the link to desktop, wmplayer will play it fine...but directly clicking
a link to an mp3 or any media file will still just say 'iexplore cannot
display that webpqage'.

So it must be an IE setting/problem after all?!?

Cheers,

Dee