I've had this problem for a while now.

Basically, let's say you're browsing through your music folder. You want to just put the lot on and hit shuffle. Great! Not for me.

I go to the music folder, I click play all. It seems to do something (loading, slight slow down) and then nothing happens.

Now, the only way I can play an album is to go in to the music directory, in to the albume and highlight all the songs and then press play.

If I do it in the directories, it just does sod all - not even windows media player starts up.

I've googled and googled, but I can't seem to find anything.

Would you consider some other player?
Winamp suits all my needs quite well.

wmp does me great - especially with the mini-taskbar mode.

I'm not sure where the problem lays, if it's wmp or if it's xp.

you could check your application logs and see if anything interesting is in there. Probably not, but you never know. If not, I haven't the foggiest what may be wrong.

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