MusicBrainz Picard won't play music

Sorry if the formatting is bad, I’m new here

Whenever I try to play music using Player, nothing happens and Picard returns this:
Internal player: error, code=1, msg=

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The playback depends entirely on whether your operating system is capable of playing this audio format. What audio file format do you try to play on which operating system?

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I’m also seeing this error trying to play an mp3 on Windows 10.

I’m seeing this same error on windows 11 with the picard internal player. I can play fine using windows explorer and the windows 11 media player. These are m4a files. Thank you.

Seems to be covered here:

Apparently, on Windows, the Picard internal player (mostly) does not work. The external player does. (However, the FAQ says it is due to missing codecs; that is not the case on my system, which has the codecs installed to play the file (m4a).)