Listening to Windows Media

Hi, I'm not sure this is the right forum, but I'm trying to listen to music on amazon.com with windows media. I tried to download windows media but that didn't seem to work and i also did the flip4mac thing and nada. Any suggestions? thanks

There is no usable Windows Media Player for an Intel-based Mac (Microsoft recommends using Flip4Mac). Properly-installed Flip4Mac should allow you to listen to the music from the Windows Media links on Amazon (I can play them just fine).
Try re-installing the most recent version of Flip4Mac (have you run the Update from the System Preferences > Flip4Mac prefpane?).
Hope this helps...

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Very frustrated. I have alot of good stuff i
n folders I can listen to in Windows Media Player. I can adjust my volume up & down etc. I
go to YouTube to watch and listen....NOTHING, no audio.
#1. I do have latest Flash Player installed
#2. I did uninstall and reinstall it.
#3. I have gone into START>MY COMPUTER and adjust volume settings etc.
#4. While a video plays in YouTube right-clicked and gone into Global Settings
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See:
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/No+sound+in+Firefox
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Video+or+audio+does+not+play
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You can adjust the volume level for each application in that window, so make sure that Firefox is not muted or set at a low level.<br />
Current Firefox versions use the plugin-container process to run plugins, so you need to check the volume setting for the plugin-container process.<br />
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http://www.flip4mac.com/
http://www.videolan.org/
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Hi there,
so, you definitively have a machine whichs plays sound and you can establish a internetconnection. I think its a pure mediaplayer problem (softwareproblem).
You have the following options:
1. Reinstall your mediaplayer or update it.
2. install another mediaplayer software like winamp or some other jukebox
3. ..no further options
Give some feedback, so I can maybe help you with your problem. ;)
Cheers

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Am I the only one? If not, can anybody help?

Sorry that word up there is meant to be 'odd', not off.
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(ii) In the filter box, type or paste '''plugins''' and pause while the list is filtered
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(2) Copy the plugins folder to the new location. Here's how on Win 7 64-bit:
Open a Windows Explorer window to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox
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Double-click the '''browser''' folder to open it
Right-click and paste
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Kind of a long-winded way of putting this issue to anyone, but I just wanted to be clear and specific.
Is there ANYONE out there who owns a cheapo HP? (not a Compaq, the computer co. HP bought for that purpose, to make their cheap computers and differentiate them from the HPs) - But I wonder, it's been so long since I've even checked -does Compaq even exist anymore as a separate entity from parent co. HP? If not, then that explains why there's a difference between HP laptops that are $400 or so (at Best Buy) and the more slick, expensive HP laptops that have all the bells & whistles and usually run over $1000. Of course, I'm not about to shell out twice as much money to buy an HP just to see if the more expensive ones don't behave the way their cheap models do. I also had a Toshiba I bought about 3-4 years ago and I had even more problems with that - one instance was when the CD drive went out on me and I had to ship it in to HP (still under warranty, thank heavens) and they put a new drive in and shipped it back to me. It also crashed one time, and got infected with a virus or two or three, which meant I had to re-set the computer back to the original factory settings and, not having an external hard-drive with which to back up all my music, pix, documents, etc (my music is the most important stuff on my computer to me), which meant that I had to go through this long hassle of replacing all the music I'd lost. I have a lot of my own hard copies of CDs, but there were so many more CDs that I didn't have copies of, so I had to visit the library over & over, checking out as many as 25-30 CDs at a time on a lucky day, when the library had a lot of the CDs I needed to replace in my WMP. I don't want this to happen again, so I am going to get an external hardrive but I still don't know for sure if that would work. At least, by resetting the PC to factory settings I was able to get rid of the virus(es) that were screwing my computer up badly
So - has anyone out there had any similar problems? If so, I would appreciate any help or suggestions you may have as to how to deal with this sort of thing.
Thanks a lot. Hope to hear from one of you out there in the future.
Have a nice 4th...
Kent M.

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sound, no airport. I am not too sure if the service
pack is the issue. I am using service pack one.
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Since I need to listen to some online lecture
recordings and my xp doesnt have sound, i have to use
it on MAC OS. But as the problem is the site kept
telling me to install Internet explorer 5.5 and above
and after install IE for MAc 5.1, it ask for Windows
Media player. I installed flip4mac and media player
for mac ..it still doesnt work...
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I am truly sad to see the difficult in using a
macbook and i kinda regretted getting it. It just
getting on my nerves....
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