Vista, sound and possibly iTunes

I got Vista a couple days ago and so far the only problem I've had has to do with media players.

When I first turn on my computer, everything runs fine. Music plays or movies play. But sometimes, after I pause a video or song, and try to start playing it again, it won't play. The play button looks like it's playing (> turns into ||), but the progress bar isn't moving and I can't hear anything or see anything. Then when I try to play a game, there's no sound.

I'm guessing it has something to do with iTunes, because it usually happens after I stop playing a song on it. Anyone else have a similar problem?

It has to do with you posting your Vista support threads at night.

Fail, this was posted in the morning. Try again.

iTunes doesn't work on Vista. Use a real music player.

>>1
foobar for music, vlc for video.

The only two programs you'll ever need.

Actually, I just discovered something that makes less sense. While music may occasionally play in iTunes, it doesn't play at all in Windows Media Player 11. Maybe it's my shitty soundcard, but it actually worked with XP. Vista says it has the right drivers, but I think it lies.

>>5
Thanks for the tip.

I do like vlc, and maybe I'll try foobar, but there's also the issue of the inevitability of using windows media player (possibly playing music or videos off websites) so I can't just ignore this glitch.

I prefer Windows media player classic for videos. That will play ANY video if you have the codecs for it. As for music, I prefer WinAmp. But I am just crazy like that. Though media player classic shouldn't be confused with Windows Media Player, what ever number they are up to now. I am talking about the first and best one that came with windows 98. I have no idea why they ever changed it.

>>8
PROTIP: You totally just confused them yourself.

>>8
I agree with this setup

>>8 It's not called 'Windows Media Player Classic', it's 'Media Player Classic' or MPC for short, and it's in constant development, which means it's about as far from a Windows product as you can get in nearly ten years.
Combine it with the CCCP tried & tested codec pack (preceded by a scan using 'Insurgent' to identify all your lurking scummy codecs which need to be removed).  This setup runs everything.  The only other change would be to install CoreAVC to replace the libavcodec which comes with CCCP, as it's faster.  The reason it's not included in CCCP is because it's not free, so you'll have to steal it.

>>11
Seems as he means mplayer.exe from win98, not MPC.

I've been having trouble with Windows Media Player too.  Sometimes when I close the program while I'm playing music or a video the window closes but the sound keeps playing.  It doesn't happen all the time, but its annoying to have to use Task Manager to close it.

Just use VidLAN VLC  and foobar200. Be done with it.

MPC and CCCP for video.  Keep VLC around too (doesn't hurt, and can be convenient when you're too lazy to update your DS codecs).

FB2K for audio if you can stand the UI and intend to be vigilant about maintaining a consistent media metacode convention, since that's the only way you're going to be able to keep anything sorted in FB.  Winamp actually fails harder than FB due to its rogue UI, developer incompetence (**BUGGY**, bloated, form-over-function design, etc), and inflexibility compared to FB.

BTW, OP's problem sounds like a sound driver or mixer bug.  I wouldn't blame iTunes for it without knowing more.  Besides, iTunes has its place; it's very good at organizing the media that it can play, much better than WMP (which admittedly is not saying much).