Windows Xp and mp3's...

[Lord Pablo]

so today i decided to put xp on my pc, after using win2000 for some time.

im having troubles with some of my mp3's though. i try to play them and they just wont play. they open up ok in winamp and WMP, with WMP reporting that i dont have the correct codecs for this file.

thing is, some mp3s on the same drive do work. the drive is ntfs and xp did have to scan after i hard powered down my pc and turned it back ok, saying stuff like recovering orphaned file...

can anyone help me? or have a lost a big chunk of good music? =(

edit - just found out its happened to some avi files i have too

 

[dirtydog]

Did you do a clean install of XP, or an upgrade on top of 2000? Something's amiss because just hard shutting down your PC shouldn't cause file corruption on an NTFS partition.

 

[Syph]

I've found that's just how WMP is, bringing up codec errors... Try Winamp or another MP3 player to see if that helps. I was having to play some of my songs in Creative MediaSource till I got sick of WMP10 and just installed Winamp. Wish I had have done all along.

 

[Lord Pablo]

it was a full install of XP, not an upgrade. i sent a file to my mate, he couldnt play it.

i didnt make myself too clear, the files open in winamp and WMP, but BOTH wont play it and only WMP shows an error message.