Midi plays in Guitar pro, but in WMP or any other app

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Posts: 4
Joined: August 5, 2016 - 07:34
Midi plays in Guitar pro, but in WMP or any other app

I recently tried to play a midi file I exported from a project I made in Guitar Pro 5.2. Everything in guitar pro works fine with VirtualMIDISynth, but when I try to play the file in WMP it says "Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file." MPC-HC won't play either and gives a long error message I'll paste at the end of this message. (This person seems to have had the same problem I did on 1803 and updating to 1809 fixed it https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/midi-out-wont-play-midi-files-in-windows-10-pro64bit-version-1803.248154/ )

I've been Googling for a solution on this issue for weeks now and can't get anything to work. Everything is up to date with Windows (1909). I reinstalled the K-Lite codec pack and reinstalled VirtualMIDIsynth. I even tried to not use VMS at all and it still won't play midi. 

Any help is welcome. I don't think it's a VMS issue since soundfonts work in guitar pro just fine. 

ERROR message in Media player classic

File Source (Async.)::Output
MIDI Parser::Out

Media Type 0:
--------------------------
Unknown

AM_MEDIA_TYPE: 
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Midi {7364696D-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
subtype: TIME_FORMAT_NONE {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
formattype: TIME_FORMAT_NONE {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
bFixedSizeSamples: 0
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 1
cbFormat: 32

pbFormat:
0000: e0 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 à...............
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

Posts: 4
Joined: August 5, 2016 - 07:34
Re: Midi plays in Guitar pro, but in WMP or any other app

I just fixed it. 

I opened control panel -> troubleshooting -> View all (top left of the page) -> ran the media player fixes.

I swear I already did these, but I tried again and it's working.

Posts: 1972
Joined: March 25, 2012 - 01:19
Re: Midi plays in Guitar pro, but in WMP or any other app

Thanks for posting your fix here, it could be useful to other users ;)