When i turn it on to hear some musics eveything is good but when i press "X" to close it the music keeps playing even tho there is no windows media player tab or anthing. How can i fix this thanks

That sounds like an awful strange bug right there.

Hmm, check your task manager (ctrl+alt+del) and see if that program could still be running?

If the program is not running and music is still playing.....

Hmm... Lets try this: Start Windows Media Player again... now hit the stop button or try playing another sound or something then hitting the stop button?

Else: Try logging off and on your user?

Else: Contact microsoft and tell them that the media player crapped out on you.

Thats all I can really think of. Hope this helps.

That happens to me sometimes, but the sound stops after 10s. I don't think there is anyway to fix this. Try another player such as winamp, it doesn't do that and uses up less of the system resources...

hmmm ... i also encounter this problem ... but this is quite rare ... the reason for me is that my computer's memory is too low ... and after i close my windows media player .... the program doesnt shut down instantly ... so it will still have some music playing after closing ... it will close down and the music will be off in no time ... so i think there's no way to help it ... other than upgrading your computer with a better memory

ashiezai nailed it to the floor!

I had the exact same problem. But it didn't happen from the beginning. As I gradually started to store more stuff in my hard drive that I noticed this phenomenon. It's the combination of your available disc space (because sometimes Windows will use your disc space for some virtual memory) and available RAM. The problem of Windows player acting bit sluggish increased as I queued more songs to be played.

So I made sure I had at least 20% of my total hard drive to be free, I have upgraded my computer from 256MB to 512MB and I queue no more than 1 hour’s worth and I am just fine these days. I'm sure my situation might be different from others but give that a go.

It may be happening because of Low memory! and because Windows Media Player is such a great program that what it is doing here is that it is putting the song in the buffer and then is playing it....because of which when you close the WMP...it continues to play it.
There can be a possibility that it is happing because of corrupt WMP.

In order to resolve this issue what you can try following steps.

1. Try Uninstalling and Re-installing the WMP, Upgrading it can be much better.
2. If you feel your computer is running slow, then remove some startup items and scan your computer for spywares and viruses. You can remove startup items by using MSCONFIG.
3. Try to uninstall and re-install the sound drivers as well.

These are some of the things which can help you in fixing up the problem and if at any point of time you need some assistance..feel free to contact me.

mayank is the MAN! As usual.

Got it right, the buffer it keeps is stored on your RAM/Virtual Memory, and kept there until the process offically ends. ( I reverse-engineered (or attempted to) WMP 8.0 a few months ago to create my own media player, didn't go over so well)

Storing the current playlist/song clips in the ram is very intensive, and keeps playing until the process of WMP is completely shut-down, which happens essentially 10-20s after you push the 'X' button, and it's shut down.

However minor a problem this is, why use WMP anyway? Winamp looks cooler

Mr. Panda

well problem solved but yeah this happen to me sometimes i just never really gave it a second thought.

Is there any size limit for media files?????

Bye



This post has been edited by cmatcmextra: Sep 8 2005, 07:02 PM