Copied music from View to computer but music won't play

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Hi everyone!

So I’ve bought a new mp3 player and decided to copy all music from my old Sansa View to my computer to transfer the music to my new device. For some reason, the music won’t play on my computer through Windows Media Player or even iTunes.

I’m not quite sure what’s going on, so I was hoping someone could help me out! It would really be a bummer to not be able to get all 600+ songs I have on it :confused:

Thanks in advance,

~L

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What format of audio files are they?

How exactly did you transfer them to your computer?

Are they DRM-crippled (protected) files, like maybe from CRhapsody, Napster or any other pay-to-play music service?

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They’re mp3 files.

I did the ol’ copy & paste from the Sansa to my Music folder on my computer.

I don’t believe they are. I’ve never used a pay-to-play music service.

Hope this helped! >_<

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Yes & no.

If they are .mp3 files, they cannot have any DRM encryption, and there’s no reason why they wouldn’t play in WMP from your computer as they do through the earphones on your player.

You do have the volume up on your computer speakers, don’t you? :stuck_out_tongue:

What type of reaction, if any are you getting when you attempt to play them in WMP? Do they appear to play (progress bar moving), or does WMP just seem to freeze up?

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When I right click on the file and try to play it through WMP, it says “Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file”

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@lai1818 wrote:

When I right click on the file and try to play it through WMP, it says “Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file”

What if you go directly into WMP and then navigate to the file and try to play it that way?

Where did these files come form? Did you rip them from CD’s yourself? What ripping program and .mp3 encoder did you use?

Did you download them from the internet somewhere?