How to solve "Playback error 44" on Windows

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A "Playback error 44" on Windows simply informs you about the situation, a file cannot be played because there is no codec installed to play it.

If you try to play unusual formats, this error may be correct, however, if you try to play an MP3-files, there may be something wrong (for various reasons, Silverjuke does not contain an MP3-decoder itself but uses the system decoder).

In the latter case,

- check if your windows media player and corresponding apps are installed correctly and the system MP3-codec is installed

- as an alternative, you can give Silverjuke an explicit MP3-decoder: Download bass24.zip from http://www.un4seen.com/download.php?bass24 and extract the containing bass.dll to the Silverjuke program directory (c:\Program Files (x86)\Silverjuke\ - overwrite the existing bass.dll)