WMP and .ALB Format

I have a sony walkman mp3 player that I've used for a couple years. I used to connect it to my windows xp and start WMP to rip, burn and install audio CD's on it.

But, recently I built a new system and installed windows 7 home premium on it. It has wmp version 12 and I decided to connect my walkman up to it and listen to the music. But, wmp seems to be having an issue with the format of the songs on my walkman. I can't get it to message me an error anymore but at first it said the format .ALB was not a compatible format.

I looked at the music on my walkman and sure enough, every song has a .ALB extension. I'm thinking of trying to see if I can't convert them some way on my xp system to something more compatible but I'm not sure yet how I will do that.

Is there a possibility that installing a different set of codecs will solve the issue and if so, does anyone know which codecs handle the .ALB extension? There is also the possibility I could just install a different player that could handle it but I thought I might save that as a last resort. Any ideas?

 

ALB is a Different format for Graphics i would try this codec pack has not failed me yet.
http://majorgeeks.com/CCCP_Combined_Community_Codec_Pack_d6093.html

This must be some new format i never have heard of it.Uninstall any codec be for you install this one.

 

MY apologies....this is the way my message should have read...(I ran out of time trying to edit it)

I have a sony walkman mp3 player that I've used for a couple years. I used to connect it to my windows xp and start WMP to rip, burn and install audio CD's on it. It still works btw!

But, recently I built a new system and installed windows 7 home premium on it. It has wmp version 12 and I decided to connect my walkman up to it and listen to the music. But, wmp seems to be having an issue with the songs on my walkman, the songs are all formatted .wma 128kbps! I can sync and bring up the information but when I click on play, it just sits there! BTW, in the course of working on this on my own, I also upgraded the firmware version on the walkman and it plays great!

So, what do you think geeks?


The ALB is the type for the folders...maybe "Album?"

 

Well, I started to load the CCCP and it told me that I was missing the DirectX End-User Runtime so, I installed that and then went back to CCCP and it installed.

I then shut down my system and rebooted, plugged in my mp3 player, started WMP and got the same issue. I did notice that due to the sync process, WMP loaded 3 sample songs onto my mp3 player...they wouldn't not play from my walkman but they do play from the hard drive. I also noticed something else about these three songs as opposed to the ones on my walkman.

I went back to the CCCP program that installed and went through the settings but, I have no idea what any of these settings mean so, I just left it in the default mode.

 

Can any body eles please give a hand in this issue.

Im not big on WMP 11/12 player i am more into the older version some body eles needs too Help you with that.Windows 7 is to complicated with its issues.

I have all ways hated WMP 11 for these reasons

Can any body eles please give a hand in this issue.

CCCP is mainly a Video Codec its made for Default so i would not touch any of the settings unless you know what to do.I all was leave them alone.Plays videos just fine and if you got a DVD player you can now play them on your computer with CCCP

 

Ok...I wrote an email to Sony and here is their response:

So, I went online and checked out the supported file formats recommended and I found that the walkman supports, "MP3, WMA, AAC-LC and Linear PCM"!

Now I'm wondering how the CD's that I ripped in WMP 11 and sync'd over to my walkman ended up as an .alb! When I look at my Walkman, I see WMA on the songs but WMP 12 somehow sees them as .ALB files!

Anyway, it was probably all my fault for not picking a format during the process and instead, allowing WMP to use it's default format.

So, I went ahead and grabbed one of the CD's that was already on the Walkman, deleted it from the Walkman and then ripped it all over, this time picking MP3 format at 320 Kbps. After sync'ing it to the Walkman, I checked the properties out and it was in MP3 format and playable with WMP! Now I just need to do them all, all over again!

Thanks Goldenskull for beating your brains about trying to assist me, looks like I just didn't know the software as much as I should have.