My situation is fixed as I eventually found out how to re-enable WMP. So I'd guess whether you fix it would depend on how often this comes up.
The only reason I was missing WMP was because I watched a Win11 tuning video that suggested disabling the WMP if you don't use it, which apparently just deletes the program.
(This program, by the way, is apparently called WMP Legacy, and is different from the one currently in the MS Store. Legacy WMP hides under the "additional features" menus of Win11).
So really, what's the cross section of FoxVox users that want to use sounds that have also managed to find the fairly hidden away setting to remove WMP?
Probably just me, lol.