Hey Dognach

Actually mIRC would be the Player at hand, no indication what-so-ever mIRC sends out to other Mp3 Players. You don’t see any Mp3 Player Executables load into the process list each time you /splay an mp3 using mIRC do you?

With WinAmp you don’t see anyone saying It doesn’t play .mp3’s because it uses other Codec Environments do yea?

Even though I know, to show yea I’d completely uninstalled Windows Media Player that of which had been configured to play Mp3’s by Default. And then Re-executed mIRC and the /splay string on a “compatible” Mp3 file with success.

No doubt it it’s mIRC at hand being an issue not capable of accessing the Updated Codec Environments. For the time being only thing to-do is Decode/Encode using modified Bit rate, tested/confirmed and there yea go. Couldn’t have been any more specific with my 1st post... :tongue: