WMA play fails on vanilla Win XP SP2:

1 Make a fresh default installation of Win XP SP2 and MM and launch MM
2 File | Open URL or File, enter [b]C:\WINDOWS\system32\oobe\images\title.wma[/b] , press OK.

Expected: track plays.
Observed: track does not play.

The expectation is based on http://www.mediamonkey.com/download/
"Installing MediaMonkey
MediaMonkey ... has been tested on Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Vista." from which the user may reasonably assume that "Windows XP" meets the minimum requirement, and hence so does "Windows XP SP2".

Workaround: run http://www.mediamonkey.com/sw/WMFDist11-WindowsXP-X86-ENU.exe

Note: This is not a circumstance covered by http://tinyurl.com/p4pj3s "WMA Tracks can't Burn, Play, Tag, Convert, Sync or be Analysed", specifically not either of:
[quote]Faulty Windows Media Components can cause WMA files to fail ...
It is most likely caused by outdated or corrupted Windows Media[/quote]

EDIT: Seems likely related to http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=38768

EDIT: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=41557&p=216530#p216530 seems to be the same problem and workaround but with MP3.

EDIT: I discovered this report had been subject-tagged "[#5571]", whereas 5571 http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=5571 is a different issue, so I have removed that tag.

Tracked at http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=5984