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Can play music on line but not music and sounds stored on PC

usignuolo
usignuolo Posts: 1,923 Forumite
edited 31 December 2010 at 4:18PM in Techie Stuff
I can play back sound online from Youtube etc. However I have recently found I cannot play back any music or sounds stored locally on my hard disk. I used to be able to. The music I cannot play back is mostly in mp3 format and the sounds are .wav files. Any ideas?

Just to add I have checked all the volume controls I can find and they are all set to med volume, none are mute and all the sound devices are reported as working normally.

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  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
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    Are you running Windows 7? You can adjust volume by application (e.g. one setting for Firefox, another for VLC, etc.). Check the volume levels while the (inaudible) sound is playing and hopefully you'll be able to crank it up again!
  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    What are you playing sounds back with ?? That might be broken or you have changed file associations .What happens when you click on a sound file .
    Download VLC media player and try that .

    jje
  • DCFC79
    DCFC79 Posts: 40,649 Forumite
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    Give vlc player a try as that should play it
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