Windows 10: winndows media player won't play music file from phone

I've tried everything switching cables, and ports, shortening file names, connecting as media advice, adjusting transfer settings, troubleshooting, updating, DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth, reinstalling media player, factory resetting the phone, resetting the media player app, pulling files of one by one, nothing works they tell me to wait a bit then try again 0x80070141 I can transfer files of all kind it just won't play music it plays the files from sd card but not from the phone directly

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Windows music media files.

Hi,

I appreciate if you could answer to a few questions to narrow down to the issue.

• Are you trying to play the music's directly from the CD?
• Are you using Windows Media Player to paly the music?
• Did you try a different player?
• Did you try copying the songs to a particular folder and checked if the issue persists?
  

As an initial troubleshooting step, I suggest you to run Windows Media Player Settings troubleshooter and check if that helps to resolve the issue.

• Type troubleshooting in the search bar.
  
• Select Troubleshooting.
• Select View all on the top left corner.
  
• Click Windows Media Player Settings.
  

Hope the information helps. Let us know if you need further assistance. We will be happy to help.

Thank you.

 

music player

There is another way that works as well and you don't have to dig into the settings. It gives you control of which music player plays a given codec. Open your music folder On a individual music file right click it at the bottom on the dialog box that opens click properties, in the dialog box that opens look for the box that says Change click this box. It will bring up the choices you have for playing this file. click the player you wish to use for this music file, you want to use, click on the icon for Windows Media player and that makes every music file on your Laptop that uses this file codec WMP as it's default player. When your make your choice at the bottom of the :"change Box" click Apply, then OK, done. This is a handy way of doing this because as good as Window Media Player is is does not play all music such as MKV, OGG, APE files natively. I would suggest you load the music player Foobar2000 it will play all music files, it does not do videos. it is a free music player that does not take up much space on your system.

foobar2000
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Windows Media Player

Hi Maxine,

For better assistance, we'd like to know the following:

• What are the file formats of the music you want to play?
  
• Which version of Windows Media Player are you running?

Please check this article for the list of file types supported by Windows Media Player.

We're looking forward to your reply.