# Please Help - WMP won't play my tagged media...
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help-wmp-wont-play-my-tagged-media/8671
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 26, 2009, 1:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help-wmp-wont-play-my-tagged-media/8671 "2009-07-26T13:35:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@drlars](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/drlars)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2009, 1:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help-wmp-wont-play-my-tagged-media/8671/1 "2009-07-26T13:35:25Z")
Hi-
I apologize beforehand if I am missing something simple here, but my entire music library is pretty much useless right now, so any help would be appreciated.
I dowloaded the program because I wanted to add "album art" for songs on my iPod. (BTW - I have Windows Vista.) The program had renamed the songs in my library (with a "-" in front, usually) but now I can't play any of these songs with Windows media player. They are all WMA format now, but I can usually play this format without a problem.
Worse, none of my audio conversion programs will recognize my songs now either. The error the WMP gives me is : "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."
How can I convert my music back to a format that can be recognized again?
Lars
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help-wmp-wont-play-my-tagged-media/8671/2 "2026-02-09T12:21:40Z")