Why can't I play W4a codec in Windows Media Player?
Windows Media Player won’t open M4A codec? Check out our guide on how to convert an M4a file to an MP3 for playing on WMP in 5 methods. M4as are audio files that can be created when you rip files located on an audio CD onto your computer using the iTunes software. Encoded with AAC or advanced coding compression, the M4A file extension was released with the aim to succeed the highly popular MP3 file extensions. It is a tragedy for some Windows Media Player users that they are not able to play the M4A format in a way they want it to be. The most common reason behind the inability of Windows media player to play such files is that M4A files are usually encoded with AAC which results in "lossy" compression. So some tweaking has to be done to play W4A in Windows Media Player. Trying to play the M4A files with Windows Media Player? There are five major solutions that can come to your rescue in such a scenario: Solution 1: Upgrading your windows media pl...