There's probably a really simple answer to this, and I'm just too computer illiterate to see it, but here it is anyway:
Whenever I download music files (mostly .wma files) on to my computer, they automatically open in the Musicmatch jukebox. Normally, there would be no problem with this, but when I click the "play" icon, Musicmatch launches a liscense (sp?) search through Internet explorer, and it can never find one, so I never get to hear the music. I know its just a security precaution, but you can't reason with a computer anymore than you can with a brick wall. Here's the question I was getting around to: how do I change the default player program to Windows media player? Also, does anyone know of a codec program that Windows media player supports, so I can "unzip" the files?

help?

The problem is probably the wma's. See: What you should know about WMA Files. I would stick to mp3 files. I filter out wma's from my search results. You can do that in the limewire options.

I wouldn't trust any file that tried to connect to the internet so it could be played. I caught a bug that way once and had quite a time getting rid of it, though that was with a video file.


For info on codecs see: CODECs list and alternate players for Movies. I hear that K-Litecode Codec Pack is supposed to be a good one for WMP.


WMP and Musicmatch are very similar. You might want to try a different player. I've been using Winamp for audio files. There are some others listed in the link above . See How to set default media player.
I don't think WMP can unzip files, besides audio files aren't usually zipped. Most zip files on LW contain viruses. I would be very cautious about opening them. See: WARNING: Viruses on network you should be aware of!

Hope this helps .

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ok, that makes sense... I'll try it out, thank you

i am currently tryin to do the opposite. i want to share some music that's in my windows media player,and dont know how to move the files into my Limewire library.
Also; i have found a free prog that converts wma into mp3's. do a search on "jodixfree". it's a helpful prog. about 3 mb.

You can point LW to your wmp files(probably in your "My Music" folder).

Open LW and go to Tools>Options>Sharing>Basic, and click on "Add". Then browse to the location of your files and click "Select" then "Apply".

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geeze. thnx pac, if it was a snake.....lmao.

martini