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[iGuest]

well. I think it is a plugin that you have installed. I was having that problem and I googled it and stumbled here. I also have tons of memory in my laptop. 4gb. I closed wmp and music continued to play. I checked my task manager and found that windows media player was still running. So I stopped the process and the music stopped. I tried playing another mp3 file and I received a message bar which basically stated that a plug-in caused it to shut down improperly and wmp was going to start without any active plug-ins. When I closed wmp, the music stopped. So I guess we may have the same plug-ins installed, I have "lyrics plug-in" and a "blue tooth headset plug-in". I'm not sure which plug-in could be causing it.  

[iGuest]

I have the same problem.  Mine also has nothing to do with memory.  Here is what I noticed:

From any folder that contains mp3s, I double click the mp3 and it opens in WMP, starts playing

I click the X to close, or right click on the taskbar and select close.  The program closes, but the music continues to play, and will continue until the file is played all the way through (I.E. It doesn't turn off after a few secs)

With WMP closed, file still plays, and I can still control file with the volume and play/stop quick keys on my keyboard.

The most curious part: when I go back into the start menu, and I reopen WMP, it opens with the file active, the song playing, and the progress of the song showing right where it would be (if I'm 1 minute into the song, it opens showing 1 minute progressed, just where it should be, instead of opening new)  It is as if instead of closing and reopening WMP, I had just minimized it and the maximized again. 

Unlike others who have posted here, I am not low on memory, do not have an mp3 player connected, am not playing from the library (I'm selecting the file through windows explorer), and I do not have multiple songs in queue (I'm selecting one at a time).  It just seems to be a WMP11 quirk!

-reply by dagh

[iGuest]

it usually happen because program work behind the screen

try this :

  press (ctrl + alt +del)>> tab (Processes) >> select (wmplayer.Exe) >> click (EndProcess) 

hope it will help

-reply by solvation

[iGuest]

wmp 11 not recognizing sd memory cardQuestion: Windows Media Player

I had wmp 10 and loaded song files to my mp3 player--- bumped it at work and all the files on card were deleted ...Now my wmp updated to 11 version and will not even recognize my card anymore--Have also tried a new card--but nothing

Please help?

-question by marcia

[iGuest]

You described it exactly like I see it. I am unable to get the music to stop even by going to Task Manager because WMP is not there but the music is playing away. Very frustrating. I have tons of RAM, tons of free hard drive space. And unless WMP updated automatically this problem just started happening recently with no new version of the software. IOW I have been using v.11 for a while but the problem just started happening recently. 

-reply by Guest2

[iGuest]

With the problem of the music keeps playingQuestion: Windows Media Player

I have had a similar problem with this but in my case what I had was a firefox addon (foxytune) which I believe just hid wmp in the background when closed so I could still pause it on firefox browser but I couldn't stop music when closing wmp unless I pressed the stop button.

 I duno how useful this will be but its just concern to if you have another program that overrides when you go to close wmp.

-reply by John

[iGuest]

Same problem; Kill it in "Processes" on the task manager.

WMP will occasionally forget to close when you tell it to.  It's just what's being described; The player continues to play as if it's just minimized, but it's nowhere to be found on taskbar, in icon tray, or even in "Programs" on task manager.  Mine has been "Running" for days.  It will continue running as if it was open.  If you're on random, it'll run indefinately.  In my case I was watching a movie.  It will not shut off after 10 or 20 seconds or hours.  However, I stumbled upon this board and killed it in the "Processes" tab, and for now it' back to normal, shutting off immediately when closed.  We shall see how long it continues, I've never had the problem before so I have to assume it's a once in a blue moon thing.

Good luck!

-reply by Steve