Very often this is a "per web site" option. I mean that some web sites are written to play sounds embedded within the web site, whilst others are written to open up the default player.
You could try this. In Internet Explorer click on the Tools menu then select Internet Options, then in the Advanced tab scroll down to Multimedia and if there is no tick in the "Play sounds in web pages", place a tick there, then click Apply.
That sometimes works, but like I said, it could also depend on the way the web page was written.
Mark
Running WinXP; Win Media Player 9 series
I recently used Media player to copy music to my hard drive and now every time my browser downloads a media file to play Media Player opens up to play it rather than it playing in the browser as it did previously.
I think it may be because it thinks it's the default player, but I can't figure out how to fix that.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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