Bookshelf: Cannot Play Sound Clips or National Anthems (176362)

SYMPTOMS

While you attempt to play a sound clip or national anthem in Microsoft Bookshelf, you may receive one of the following error messages:

Filename extension of the specified multimedia file is not associated with any installed MCI device.

Mmsystem346: No MIDI device available.

You can play pronunciations from the Dictionary, and you can play both wave audio and MIDI files directly from the Bookshelf CD-ROM using Windows Media Player.

CAUSE

This behavior can occur if the following entries in the [mci extensions] section of the Win.ini file are missing or spelled incorrectly:

mid=sequencer
rmi=sequencer
wav=waveaudio

RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue:

Click Start, and then click Run.
In the Open box, type win.ini, and then click OK.
On the Search menu, click Find.
Type [mci extensions], and then click Find Next.
When you locate the [mci extensions] section, scroll down to view the contents of the section and verify that the following lines exist and are correctly spelled:
```
   mid=sequencer
   rmi=sequencer
   wav=waveaudio
 
						
```
If these entries are missing from the [mci extensions] section, add them exactly as they appear above.

NOTE: If a line is present but has a semicolon (;) at the beginning, remove the semicolon.
On the File menu, click Exit. If you are prompted to save the changes, click Yes.
Restart the computer.

MORE INFORMATION

If these steps do not resolve the issue, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

136983 No Sound, MMSystem or MCI Errors In Windows 95

NOTE: You may also receive the "No MIDI device available" error message when you attempt to play a MIDI file in Microsoft Bookshelf 2000 if you copied the contents of the Bookshelf 2000 CD-ROM to a folder on your hard disk and installed Bookshelf 2000 from that location.