Windows 7 and CRITICAL WMP12 bug
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 by Peter ZhangSo I was still messing with my Windows 7, browsing web, listening to music… wait, what happened to the music? Why is the beginning cut off?
Something wrong with WMP? Let me download another player and try… wait what? The beginning is still cut off?
Let me move to another computer and try… perhaps it is a Windows 7 issue. And WHAT!? It is still that way?!
That was my short adventure with Windows 7 and WMP 12. I took a search on the Microsoft site, and found this article talking about “an update”.
An MP3 file support issue that is fixed in this update
Every time that metadata is edited in an MP3 file that already contains lots of metadata in the file header, some audio at the beginning of the track may be lost permanently. Up to several seconds of audio may be lost.
I am personally pissed off from this. I mean, I understand that it is beta and it has bugs, but nobody would know until they encounter this problem, have a song’s beginning cut off and try to search for an answer to it. They should have included in one of the Windows Update update so the user doesn’t suffer.
Well, to fix this bug follow this article and download the update package. Your computer needs to restart, and remember, if you are planning to use Windows 7, DO NOT let WMP touch ANY of your songs until you downloaded this update! 32 Bit click here, 64 Bit click here
Other than this bug, everything seems to be fine. I will post some screenshots when I have time =)







January 14th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Wow, although I personally do not use WMP, but wow, thanks, that saved me!
January 25th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Прелесть! Я тоже мечтаю) Возьму – и сделаю… У меня получится. Спасибо, очень глубокая и позитивная статья.