I am trying to play downloaded songs on Windows Media Player and I am getting an error saying that I am missing a codec. The codec is not available on the plug-in site from WMP...it says I can search the web for "55" in either WaveFormat or FourCC something or other....can anyone in here help me???
Format tags, such as tag 55, are used by the Player to identify which decoder to use to play back your content. If you get the following error message, "The audio codec identified by the format tag 55 is required to play this file", then the MP3 decoder on your computer has become corrupted or damaged in some way, and needs to be replaced. To fix this problem on a computer running Windows XP and Windows Media Player 9 Series:
From the Start menu, click Search.
Under What do you want to search for? click All files and folders.
Under All or part of the file name, type l3codeca.acm
Click Search.
When the results are displayed, right-click the file and then click Rename. Rename the file l3codeca.bak
Open Windows Media Player.
From the Help menu, click Check for Updates. An up-to-date version of l3codeca.acm will be installed on your computer.
Ok, first thanks, second, I have a 3 different items that came up when I searched for the l3codeca.acm...all 3 are on my c drive...one is b8a7c14f2b60ce3....another one is WINDOWS\system32...and the last is WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386
If it is the first one, I tried that and it didn't work...thank you
