Windows 10: my media player worked good in windows8 but i can't get it to work or play cd in windows 10

Hi I can't get my media player to play cd's it worked great in windows 8 but no luck in windows 10 please help me

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Window Media Player won't work

Hi Zorro,

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

To assist you better, please provide us more information.

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  Are you able to play local tracks which are located on your system?
  
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  What exactly happen you when you try to play the CD? Do you get any error message?
  
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  Does the CD is detecting on the CD drive?
  

Meanwhile, I suggest you to run Windows Media Player Library troubleshooter, it will automatically fix the problems with Windows media player. Please follow the steps:

• 
  Press Windows key + X and select Control Panel.
  
• 
  In the search box, type troubleshooter, and then click Troubleshooting.
  
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  Click View all, and then click Windows Media Player Settings.
  
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  Also run the Windows Media Player Library troubleshooter.
  

Let us know the result.

 

Windows Media Player won't play CDs

Hello DominicGerald,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

To address your concern, kindly help us with the following queries:

1. Are you receiving any error code or error message when you attempt to play the music?
   
2. Is your music CD being detected by the system and are you able to access it through the File Explorer (Windows + E key)?
   

In Windows Media Player, you can play audio CDs, data CDs, and data DVDs that contain music or video files (also known as media CDs). If you have a DVD drive and a compatible DVD decoder installed on your computer, you can use Windows Media Player
to play a DVD-Video disc. If your unable to play anything on WMP, kindly check with the steps listed below and see if it works:

Method 1: Update DVD/CD ROM driver from Device Manager.

Sometimes, the issue persists if the drivers aren’t updated. So, I would suggest you to update the DVD/Cd driver manually. To do that, you may refer the article on

Update drivers in Windows 10.

Once after updating the drivers, you may check if you are able to play songs. If not, you may try out the following method.

Method 2: Adjust Burn Settings.


As you say that it’s getting stuck while burning a CD, you might want to check with the burn speed. To do that,

• Open Windows Media Player from the Start menu.
  
• Click on Organize and select
  Options from the list.
  
• Select the Burn tab in the Options window and select the drop-down menu beside
  Burn speed and select Slow.
  
• Click on Apply and OK
  to exit the settings screen.
  
• Try burning a new CD and check if it plays.
  

Method 3: Download and install add-ons for Windows Media Player.

I would suggest you to get the add-ons for your player and check if you are able to play songs. To do the same, you may want to refer to an article on
Downloads for Windows.


Kindly get back to us with the results. We will be glad to assist you further if the issue persists.

Regards,

Mala S

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

Media Player Windows 10

im useing windows 10 but can not fine windows media player

done that