...anybody help me out with this? Hello,

I was wondering if anyone could help with a computer problem-- whenever I try to play music on an app such as iTunes or Windows media player, it will not load. On iTunes the songs stay stuck at 0:00 and on Windows Media player it shows a red X and brings up a message that says this: "Windows Media Player cannot access the file. The file may be in use, you may not have access to the computer where the file is stores, or your proxy settings may not be correct."

The sound on the computer works fine, for example I can watch Youtube videos, etc. with sound and can hear it normally. Also I am opening the files directly so the issue is not that the files have been moved or anything.

Could it be a firewall issue? I have Vista and know that it can have strange security settings, but music used to work until a couple days ago.

Thanks in advance for any guidance that you can give...