Solution:
According to Microsoft, you have two options for dealing with this problem: change the audio quality settings or edit your system’s registry. To adjust the audio quality, select Options from the Tools menu and click the Rip Music tab. Move the Audio Quality slider to any value other than 128Kbps and click OK.
If you plan to edit the Registry, be sure to create a backup copy first. Click Run in the start menu and type regedit. Make sure you select My Computer at the top of the left hand portion of the Registry Editor window. Click Export in the File menu and provide a filename for the backup. Next, find the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Settings\MP3Encoding\LowRateSample. Double-click the LowRateSample key and delete the number in the Value Data field.
We once encountered a similar problem but the above solution wasn’t helpful because we could find no LowRateSample key, only a LowRate key. To resolve the error message, we right-clicked the MP3Encoding folder on the left side of the Registry Editor window (again, make sure you have a backup before modifying anything) and selected Rename. We named the file MP3Encoding-old. Next, we selected Add/Remove Programs from the Control Panel and clicked the Add/Remove Windows Components button along the left hand side of the window. We remove the check next to Windows Media Player and clicked OK to remove WMP 10. Reinstalling WMP10 resolved the problem and allowed us to rip files to MP3 format. |