Alexander Grigoriev wrote:
"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message
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Does Sound Recorder work (it's using low-level Win32 multimedia API, as
opposed to WMP that uses DirectSound)? Try uncompressed, as well as ADPCM
compressed files in it.
Use Sound Recorder to playback files?


SoundRecorder allows to open (File-Open...) and play a wav file. Because of
very old design, it will load the whole file into memory. I remember in
Windows 3.1, the whole system would get stuck when I tried to load a
particularly big file.

Interestingly, after I tried to open some of the standard Windows *.wav
files in c:\winnt\media, nothing came through, and then I looked at the
Device Manager and now there is a big yellow bang on the device driver
known as "Microsoft Kernel Wave Audio Mixer", which is
c:\winnt\system32\drivers\kmixer.sys. Now no sound will come out, even
from Winamp and Quicktime. Will try reboot again now.

Yousuf Khan