Windows Media Player 11 breaks Roxio Creator

Have you tried to reinstall Roxio after WMP11 install, see if it repairs the problem caused by WMP11?

I have the roxio creator on  a sony laptop. It burns data onto a cd, I didnot try a dvd. but when you come out of the program it gives you the three errors you were talking about.Help  I don't have the disk to reinstall.

Reinstalling does not help. Only removing WMP 11 takes care of it.

Use Nero, this forum is littered with roxio problems, originally developed for the MAC and adapted to PC.. Either something breaks Roxio or Roxio breaks something. I have installed Roxio in the past and could not believe all the software registry entries it made, patching windows to make it work, been using Nero ever since with no problems...

 

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/search?submitted=true&type=message&q=roxio&page_size=50    litter here

I actually when needed, I remove Creator and install Record Now 7.3...a nice simple program from Sonic before they added in the Roxio stuff.

 

But the point of this thread it to find a solution...and it is a solution that Dell should provide. Roxio won't talk to us because the Dell installed version of Creator is an OEM product.

 

Of course the Dell Techs (first level at least) are clueless on this issue.

Bang your head or just switch like I and many others did..

Hi,

 

I found out something of a solution on the 'mediahub.exe' problems in combination with WMP 11. I already had WMP 11 Béta for some time, and it worked for me, also in combination with Sonic (pre-installed on my Inspiron 9400). But with the final version of WMP11 it created the 'mediahub.exe'.

 

What I did was the following. In the config screen - Software, just remove WMP11 (2 are listed in software). It sets it back to another version of WMP. Then Google for mediaplayer 11 beta, download this and install it on your pc. After that, no problems with Sonic. But just remember: DO NOT click on 'update WMP' when this screens appears as you open WMP.  Just leave the béta version as it is.

 

Now you have WMP 11 (if you want it) and Sonic works also perfectly.

 

greetz Redrizla2

Microsoft seems to have just fixed the issue. I received an automatic update from MS for WMP 11 which gave me the courage to try WMP on a machine that had previously had problems. With a fresh download of WMP 11, I had no problems with Roxio.

 

 

I just recieved a new Inspiron 1501 for a customer - upon completeing our system build and updating to WMP 11 I see the same errors reported in this thread.  No amount of reinstalls or updates have fixed the issue.  I have updated from both Microsoft Update and gone directly to the WIndows Media Player website.  If I'm missing something please let me know otherwise this issue is not yet corrected.

And while I had thought that MS or Roxio had fixed this...I was wrong. Still the same problems for me. Amazing!!!

I don't know what version of Roxio (Sonic) creator software this thread refers to, but I have Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 suite (EMC 9) and there are no conflicts with WMP 11, except for one minor thing not related to what is under discussion in this thread.

 

 Maybe the problems are with Dell OEM Roxio (Sonic) software? I note from other posts that the Sonic Cineplayer Dell OEM version has/had a problem, also not encountered in the version of Cineplayer that is part of EMC 9.

 

[FYI the problem I have encountered is that although Roxio's drag to disc is not set to load on startup, it hijacks the burner drive and WMP11cannot recognise that there is a blank CD in my burner if I want to use WMP to burn an audio CD. The fix for that is to right click on the drive icon in Windows Explorer and click 'disable drag to disc for this drive'. Then burning CD in WMP works OK. That context menu item is reversible (i.e. if you disable drag to disc for the drive the entry becomes 'enable drag to disc'). I suspect that Nero InCD or Sonic DLA would cause the same problem].

 

XP home SP2 all updates, IE 7, WMP 11.

I am sad to say you are quite right. The bug is NOT fixed. I experienced it again yesterday after setting up a brand new Precisions 320.

 

I called Dell's Enterprise Support....and the tech didn't have a clue about what to do.

Thanks for the link.....I guess I will be using this for awhile!

 

Pity Dell doesn't offer any help!