# WMP 11 Beta 2
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp-11-beta-2/3877
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 9, 2006, 3:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp-11-beta-2/3877 "2006-10-09T03:55:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Louie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Louie)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2006, 3:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp-11-beta-2/3877/1 "2006-10-09T03:55:56Z")
First of all... great software!
Heres the prob...
After tagging my files... I played them on WMP 11 Beta 2...
And then some of the files displays this message...
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> 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.
Also, I tried playing my files in itunes and foobar. They are ok...
I think i am missing something here... I need help!
Is there something wrong with WMP 11 Beta 2?
I am using mp3tag2.36h
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2006, 10:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp-11-beta-2/3877/2 "2006-10-09T10:29:55Z")
What kind of files are we talking about here (what file type)?
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### Author:  [@Louie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Louie)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2006, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp-11-beta-2/3877/3 "2006-10-09T14:22:42Z")
.mp3 Only.
Its odd though... Some files are OK... But some display the error message.
I dont remember seeing this error message in WMP 11 Beta 1.
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### Author:  [@skaljic](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/skaljic)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp-11-beta-2/3877/4 "2006-10-09T16:20:16Z")
WM11 beta2 has problems with default ID3v2.3 UTF-16.
Therefore, go to File\>Options....than Tags\>Mpeg\>Write and change it to **ID3v2.4 UTF-8.**
After this go back to tag editing and just save songs. It will automatically save it in the new format that is recognizable by WM11B2.
Ed..... 🙂
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2006, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp-11-beta-2/3877/5 "2006-10-09T17:05:59Z")
Please don't use ID3v2.4 UTF-8 with WMP. WMP doesn't recognize it at all and adds a 2.3 before it (file has two ID3v2 tags afterwards).
You could try v2.3 ISO-8859-1 but I read that this Beta 2 has some general ID3v2 problems.
Maybe you should wait for the next version or tell Microsoft about your problem.
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### Author:  [@skaljic](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/skaljic)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp-11-beta-2/3877/6 "2006-10-09T17:32:59Z")
Yes it does and works flowless, i just encode 10 cds and it even sorts them as it should. Beta1 doesnt work with -8. Beta 2 does.
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### Author:  [@Louie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Louie)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2006, 12:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp-11-beta-2/3877/7 "2006-10-10T12:34:16Z")
Ok... Ive tested it in the ff:
**ID3v2.4 UTF-8** --- OK
**ID3v2.3 UTF-16** --- ERROR
**ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1** --- OK
I hope Microsoft gets this fixed. Thanks for the help!
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### Author:  [@sonicbox](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sonicbox)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp-11-beta-2/3877/8 "2006-11-22T00:11:14Z")
Just to correct the previous posting: WMP 11 (final) does not support ID3v2.4 at all. If you are seeing tags being read, you must have a ID3v1.1 tag in there, too.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp-11-beta-2/3877/9 "2026-02-09T12:19:55Z")