yes i can play windows media player and hear the songs fine i can hear sounds in other applications fine. so how do i change the codec then?
EDIT:
i have found a solution to my problem on the help page at
http://www.msgplus.net/help_registry.php look at the registry entry below.
HKCU\Software\Patchou\MsgPlus2\your@email.com\Preferences
SoundPeakLevel
dword
70
This value is used to normalize the volume of sounds played by Messenger Plus! (including custom sounds). It represents a percentage relative to the maximum volume of a sound and ranges from 1 to 100. If 0, volume normalization is disabled.
by going to that part of the registry in regedit and adding a new dword entry of SoundPeakLevel and setting the value to 70 in decimal it seems to have solved my problems i can now hear my sounds perfectly. i hope this helps puncket who was also having the same problem. thanks for your help everyone.