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- hi i bought a new acer laptop yesterday and it has windows live messenger and windows media player 11 installed. The problem i have is on windows live messenger my contacts can't see what song am listening to at any time. In windows media player 11 the windows live messenger plugin is ticked and in windows live messenger>tools.options the box is ticked to allow people to see what am listening to in media player. As well as this the box is also ticked when u go to drop down list in the personal message to show what am listening to. I totally cant understand y it wont work, any ideas???
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- 1) Enable the Now Playing option in MSN,2) Go to your MSN Messenger (Windows Live Messenger) folder in Program Files,3) Find the "msgrapp.dll" file,4) Copy it to your Windows Media Player 11 folder (in Program Files too),5) Restart your playFor Windows Media Player 11, do the following: 1) Open Windows Media Player 112) Under the "Now Playing" tab, click "more Options"3) In the "Plug-ins" tab there will be a category list box. In that list box click Background. To the right of it should be the "windows Live Messenger Music Plug-in" Make sure that is checked. ... RESTART MEDIA PLAYER 11, it all works guys
- Proposed As Answer byMelanie C Robinson Friday, April 10, 2009 2:56 PM
- Unproposed As Answer bydjartsincModeratorWednesday, August 05, 2009 6:11 AM
- Marked As Answer bydjartsincModeratorWednesday, August 05, 2009 6:11 AM
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- I too have the same problem so I cannot help you here. I also noticed (you may have noriced this too) the properties button is greyed out. I wonder if that also contributes to the problem.
- well i am glad to hear am not the only 1 with this problem. I was woundering if has anything to do with windows vista which i have installed on my laptop.? if anyone knows what is causing this problem please help me.
michaelsmith18 wrote: hi i bought a new acer laptop yesterday and it has windows live messenger and windows media player 11 installed. The problem i have is on windows live messenger my contacts can't see what song am listening to at any time. In windows media player 11 the windows live messenger plugin is ticked and in windows live messenger>tools.options the box is ticked to allow people to see what am listening to in media player. As well as this the box is also ticked when u go to drop down list in the personal message to show what am listening to. I totally cant understand y it wont work, any ideas??? You can see http://www.msnshell.com.
- Does anyone know anything about this? I am having the exact same problem and when I email microsoft they tell me to do all the same things i have already done in order to make the plugin work and it STILL does not work. Iam starting to get really frustrated with windows vista and windows live and their in compatibility
- 1) Enable the Now Playing option in MSN,2) Go to your MSN Messenger (Windows Live Messenger) folder in Program Files,3) Find the "msgrapp.dll" file,4) Copy it to your Windows Media Player 11 folder (in Program Files too),5) Restart your playFor Windows Media Player 11, do the following: 1) Open Windows Media Player 112) Under the "Now Playing" tab, click "more Options"3) In the "Plug-ins" tab there will be a category list box. In that list box click Background. To the right of it should be the "windows Live Messenger Music Plug-in" Make sure that is checked. ... RESTART MEDIA PLAYER 11, it all works guys
- Proposed As Answer byMelanie C Robinson Friday, April 10, 2009 2:56 PM
- Unproposed As Answer bydjartsincModeratorWednesday, August 05, 2009 6:11 AM
- Marked As Answer bydjartsincModeratorWednesday, August 05, 2009 6:11 AM
- i ddi this a while back but it doesnt really work. when you play asong through windows media player it doesnt come up on windows ;ive messenger. However if i have a song in a shared folder on windows live messenger and open it through there the song is displayed. I certainly think this problem only happens with vista computers
Thanx,
That works
- THAT WORKS!!! YOU ARE AWESOME!
- Yes, works for me too. (I am on XP, not Vista)
- for those that dont work, try going to optins, and clicking {show song informaton as a personal message} that might help....
- Very helpful, thanks for the help mate, I really appreciate it.
I have the same problem.
However my option to "show what i'm listening to" when I try to 'apply' it, a pop-up message says that feature is only available with WMP Ver. 9 or later. I have WMP VER. 11?!
In windows media player 11 the windows live messenger plugin is ticked
My live messenger is Version 2008, my WMP is Ver. 11 and my OS is Windows XP Home Edition.
HELP!!!
Go into your windows media player and click on "Tools"-"Plug-Ins" and tick "Windows Live Messenger Music Plug-In", then in Windows Live Messenger click on the drop-down box on your personal message and tick "Show What I'm Listening To".
Hope it's helpful.
eddieboy27
Would anyone know how to get what i am showing for itunes on WLM?
None of my songs show up from itunes.It works with Windows media, but not itunes.
this is really annoying me.
it just suddenly stopped showing my songs!
please help me!
thanks if you can!
I had the same problem, just download itunes and you can drag all your music files into itunes and when you play them they will automatically show up on windows live messenger.
Hope this helped
Cheers Charlie God! Greatly appreciated!- Thanks It really works
I followed your instructions and still it didn't work. There wasn't a msgrapp.dll file in my windows live msg folder but msgrapp.8.5.1302.1018.dll file instead.
I copied that file to my windows media player folder. Then continued to follow your instructions, restarted media player, went to my windows live msgr, went to tools, then options, ticked the box that should enable the "now playing feature", said "apply" and still it said, "This feature requires windows media player 9 or later. To install the latest version, click ok", then when I do that, I'm directed to download WMP ver.11 which I already have!?
I haven't been able to use that plug in for months now.
I gave up on that feature until lately when I started getting these alerts.
Can this be fixed or no??
Nubn
- Hi i tried too, but i had the msgrapp file, did what stated, still doesn't work.
- thanks a lot, it worked very well!!
hi i bought a new acer laptop yesterday and it has windows live messenger and windows media player 11 installed. The problem i have is on windows live messenger my contacts can't see what song am listening to at any time. In windows media player 11 the windows live messenger plugin is ticked and in windows live messenger>tools.options the box is ticked to allow people to see what am listening to in media player. As well as this the box is also ticked when u go to drop down list in the personal message to show what am listening to. I totally cant understand y it wont work, any ideas???hi i bought a new acer laptop yesterday and it has windows live messenger and windows media player 11 installed. The problem i have is on windows live messenger my contacts can't see what song am listening to at any time. In windows media player 11 the windows live messenger plugin is ticked and in windows live messenger>tools.options the box is ticked to allow people to see what am listening to in media player. As well as this the box is also ticked when u go to drop down list in the personal message to show what am listening to. I totally cant understand y it wont work, any ideas???
I Am Able To See The Music That Is Playing In W.M.P. However, Whenever I Listen To An Online Audio Stream (e.g. 970 WFLA), It Doesn't Show Up. I Tried To Troubleshoot This Problem In The W.L.M. Help Forum, But I Couldn't Find Anything.
Help Would Be Appreciated.
~Stere0123~
1) Enable the Now Playing option in MSN,2) Go to your MSN Messenger (Windows Live Messenger) folder in Program Files,3) Find the "msgrapp.dll" file,4) Copy it to your Windows Media Player 11 folder (in Program Files too),5) Restart your playFor Windows Media Player 11, do the following: 1) Open Windows Media Player 112) Under the "Now Playing" tab, click "more Options"3) In the "Plug-ins" tab there will be a category list box. In that list box click Background. To the right of it should be the "windows Live Messenger Music Plug-in" Make sure that is checked. ... RESTART MEDIA PLAYER 11, it all works guys
Thankyou so much Charlie God. This was the fix!!
'Yes' to others who give the suggestions of where to enable it in both Windows Media Player and MSN ..but I think the 'problem' people are referring to is when you already have it enabled in both Windows Media Player and MSN..and then it just stops working..and I'd say usually from an update in either program. (With me, it was an update to MSN.) So doing as Charlie God suggests really does work!!- Hey my Windows Media Player doesnt even have the Windows Live plugin there :s you know where i can download the plugin please?
- I have a strange problem....I'm using windows live messenger 14,with WMP12,running on 64 bit windows 7...and I had not any problem with the msn plugin until couple of days ago...The problem is I had windows live msn plugin and lyrics plugin also,and they worked great,but now everytime I close media player the next time I run it the plugins disapper I mean like they haven't been installed...but the funny thing is when I reinstall the lyrics plugin also appear the msn plugin too if it was always there ....I didn't see here this kind of problem so I would like to see someone with a similar problem...it is not so serious but it is annoying
I have a strange problem....I'm using windows live messenger 14,with WMP12,running on 64 bit windows 7...and I had not any problem with the msn plugin until couple of days ago...The problem is I had windows live msn plugin and lyrics plugin also,and they worked great,but now everytime I close media player the next time I run it the plugins disapper I mean like they haven't been installed...but the funny thing is when I reinstall the lyrics plugin also appear the msn plugin too if it was always there ....I didn't see here this kind of problem so I would like to see someone with a similar problem...it is not so serious but it is annoying
I am using Windows 7 32 bits with Windows Live Messenger 9 and of course Windows Media Player 12 and my messenger never shows>> Now Playing in its screen, so my contacts never knows what I am listening to. I am also using the KLite Mega Pack codecs specified to Windows Vista and 7 so I tried everything in terms of tips and it's not working so far. I read all quotes and tips about msgrapp.dll I hope that is possible to find a way to correct the problem and no I am not interested in re-install all my Windows 7 no way.
Thanks in advance
Monica- well the only way i get it to work is by running the actual windows media player program as administrator and then play songs and it will show up so the problem wid windows vista is the permission things that don't allow it to show
- Windows 7 and Windows Media Player 12 not on Vista!!!
Hellooo
Anyway thanks, not useful - For Windows 7, just copy your music stuff into your Music library folder . Thats what i did and it worked for me .. Hope that helps you
- Thank you so much Zanathos,I tired that too but doesn't work...I guess I will need to reinstall everything....(a whole day to spend on thos task)...lol; well the way to copy into library is nice but that takes space, anyways thanks again!
Cheers
Monica
