Hi
I downloaded a series of audio/video files ending in part5.rar|104857, but with different “|104857” numbers at the end, according to each part.
Normally Windows Media Player or Winamp will play .rar files – but they don’t recognise these.
Perhaps if I lopped off the “|104857”s at the end, they would.
Any ideas?
I can’t see how WMP cam play .rar files as they are archive files and not media files. Even if there were media files inside the .rar archive the files would have to be extracted and then run and I don’t believe WMP does that.
Mind you it is some considerable time since I used WMP (version 9 I think).
Thanks David,
The files came from Rapidshare http://rapidshare.com in Switzerland. It could be that they are archives. You download the files, but they perhaps can only be played back online at their URL.
It doesn’t matter where they are/ come from (on-line or on your system) .rar files aren’t media files and as such can’t be played.
You need to download the .rar file and extract the contents and if something inside is a media file, such as .wma them WMP would play it when you double click on it.
This tells me that the file isn’t complete part5.rar|104857 (part5) and I don’t know how you would get all the parts or how to stitch them all together.
You could try renaming the file removing the |104857 leaving only the part5.rar and see if you can open this file with either RAR or another archive management tool like 7xip or winzip.
WMP can’t play rar file unless you open the rar file and execute the media file inside the rar (assuming the media file extension is being handled by WMP).
There are feature in WinRAR, 7-Zip, PeaZip, etc. which allow you to split and join the files or archives.
Or, you could simply test the archive to know whether you have a damage archive or not.