In the options of the windows media player, in the tab 'Performance' you have a button 'Advanced'. In that dialog, disable 'High quality modus'. See if that helps.

I don't have a screen shot, but there's a dutch version of this solution here.

Also you can try to update your version Windows Media Player, which do you have?

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