music error: cannot play music file. data files/music/special/Morrowind title mp3

[Jaevwyn]

Let me start off by saying this, no the file is not missing or corrupt and no i do not need to validate the game.

That being said, it seems the issue lies in Codecs, and I have found an out dated fix for the problem here
- http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/205846/morrowind-music-error-at-title-screen-tryed-all-fixes-need-help/ - (about half way down, user name quazl) the issue is with this fix is that the Merit Manager is no longer a button in Zoom Player.

Can anyone help me translate this fix into the current zoom player version, thanks!

[Jaevwyn]

got the fix happy to share with those who needed it, will stay subbed to this discussion

[G]

Today I faced this problem too. Googled 5+ solutions and they didn't worked. Finally i tried to install K-Lite codec pack. After running K-Lite codec pack installation message appeared: "... Detected problem with your DirectShow subsystem. Problem fixed.". Interesting. I cancelled installation and... now Morrowind working. Hope it will help somebody.

[Björn]

Originally posted by Jaevwyn:

got the fix happy to share with those who needed it, will stay subbed to this discussion

How dit you fix it? I've got this problem and tried serveral things like: updating drivers, mp3 to windows media player and tried to empty my codex but couldnt delete the ones from microsoft.

[Jaevwyn]

Firstly id like to just put this here :)

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/279/921/796.jpg


This was a while back now, but i believe this following link was the solution to the issue for me. (pretty much the above post)
https://www.gog.com/forum/elder_scrolls_series/morrowind_music_error_on_windows_10

Hope it works and best of luck

[HCLivess]

Originally posted by Jaevwyn:

Firstly id like to just put this here :)

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/279/921/796.jpg


This was a while back now, but i believe this following link was the solution to the issue for me. (pretty much the above post)
https://www.gog.com/forum/elder_scrolls_series/morrowind_music_error_on_windows_10

Hope it works and best of luck

The guy waited for the answer for 4 years because you tesed him and you dare call him a necromancer? zhefuk

[mattapaypal]

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/279/921/796.jpg

I know necromancy is frowned upon in Morrowind but I'll just post what I've discovered about this issue.

In my situation, Morrowind couldn't find the path to the music file because I've been moving around my installation folder of Morrowind (because I have Tamriel Rebuilt installed and needed to re-copy a backup over to C:/).

So as it turned out, for me the music file became corrupt. Going to delete it and replace it with a copy that works, I'm pretty sure that it should resolve the issue.

UPDATE:
fyi make sure show hidden files are enabled by your Windows 10 installation.