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Fri, Nov 25 2005 17:21

Why I still don’t like iTunes

Yesterday I had to download the new version of iTunes? Why? Well I had a .MOV(Apple Video format) file that I wanted to watch, and when I tried to play it, I was told that my version of Quicktime had expired and I’d have to download a new version (v7...
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Tue, Sep 6 2005 9:07

Beware Philips DMM

While staying with some friends in the UK recently, I was asked to help straighten out their digitized music collection, and help with using a newly purchased Philips HDD120 MP3 player. I found that their PC reproduced many problems I had experienced...
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Sun, May 1 2005 0:50

English = English(US)?

All over the microsoft.com site I see confused, misrepresented directives for English language versions of Microsoft products : "must be running English(US)". For example, Windows XP Powertoys : " PowerToys will only work with US-English regional settings...
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Tue, Apr 19 2005 11:07

Allchin: minor WMP update this year

Thomas Hawk passed on news of a minor update to Windows Media Player. While we're both hopeful of performance improvements for larger media libraries, my main hopes are that they will first address overwriting of metadata, track file-names and even deletion...
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Sat, Apr 16 2005 11:42

Allchin says no WMP fixes until Longhorn

Thomas Hawk dined with Jim Allchin , and extracted the following titbits: Microsoft is building the next version of Longhorn Media Center to accommodate much larger digital libraries. As some of you may have read in the past I have had some performance...
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Wed, Apr 13 2005 20:47

Online store opens in New Zealand

Six months ago , I changed my Windows User Input Locale setting from English (Australia) to English(New Zealand) to evade the ghastly online stores that had invaded my desktop. When these stores turned up, the album reviews and track listings available...
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Fri, Apr 1 2005 12:53

How much worse will Windowsmedia online database get?

I've remarked before on a case of Windowsmedia reporting different album information according to whether or not you click the "Find Album Info" or "View Album Info" buttons in Windows Media Player v10. Today I picked up a copy of the latest Verve remixes...
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Fri, Apr 1 2005 1:32

WMP Year/Date Released

There are always new unexplored corners of Windows Media Player ready for experimentation. Usually when I'm in the Library pane, I live in one of the Artist or Composer views. This evening, I expanded the Year Released tree to see what was listed. First...
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Mon, Mar 21 2005 18:47

Bad WMP day

Two CDs arrived in the mail today. First task was to rip them to WMA Lossless. CD#1, Alex Kharlamov's Posa Somata, Posa Pneumata was recognized correctly, but the Album Artist details were right-padded with a few dozen blank spaces. Almost two years after...
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Sun, Mar 13 2005 22:07

Fixing MP3 files with unrecognized Duration tags

I have many MP3 files ripped with WMP 9 or later that have the duration recorded as 0:00 seconds, or as some low, but still incorrect figure. I reported this problem some time during v9 (and submitted samples to one of the WMP testers), but have not seen...
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Sun, Mar 13 2005 21:07

WMP article: Housekeeping tips: moving your media files and removing duplicates

Direct link. All WMP articles here or see Article Categories over to the left.
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Sun, Mar 13 2005 20:36

Updates to WMP 10 library bug list [total = 43]

Full list maintained here 41. Now Playing list in Library is empty despite one or more tracks being displayed in the Now Playing Pane [added 2005-3-13] 42. If you rip a new copy of an album, then WMP will move the tracks previously ripped from into the...
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Thu, Mar 3 2005 10:49

WMP v10 security update - A Fumble in the Box

Ed Bott writes in his post How to fumble a security update about the Media Division's expectation that users will reference the WMP FAQ to learn how to use the security update effectively. It seems that the designers of this update expect a degree of...
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Tue, Feb 22 2005 9:52

Updates to WMP 10 library bug list

Full list maintained here 37. *"Sorting "Artist" field in library by clicking column header only applies to first artist (i.e. up to first semi-colon), so you can't use it to distinguish different sets of artists. Problem doesn't apply to other fields...
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Wed, Feb 16 2005 16:03

Windows Media Player update to 10.00.00.3802

An updated build of WMP10 is available from Windows downloads. The readme does not include any details of changes since the prior released build. Certainly the honking great bug of being able to click the “blue gem" button to give the "This...
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Fri, Jan 7 2005 23:40

Hannukah Favorites

I was clearing out some of the unnecessary seasonal auto-playlists accumulated in Windows Media Player v10, and I thought I'd check out what had been caught by such lists as "Hannukah Favourites". From my collection, that tends to hit a lot of versions...
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Wed, Dec 22 2004 19:19

Lighter moments in metadata

I was reading David Edelstein's hilarious article on recent movies, and followed a link to NPR's yearly run-down of movies and music ., only to find several samples like this: Unlisted Artist: Unlisted CD Title: Sorry This Music Is Not In Our Database...
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Tue, Dec 21 2004 21:52

Energy Bliss visualization - album display bug

I just noticed when jumping from playback of k.d.lang's album Ingenue to Pierre-Laurent Aimard's account of the Debussy Image that this visualization did not update the album information, so I saw the new track name, but the Artist and Album information...
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Tue, Dec 14 2004 14:33

Album Art display in Energy Bliss visualization

Zach writes in his mini-FAQ : The WMP10 Energy Bliss visualization shows Album Art only if the art is in a separate file and only if it is assigned the name "Folder.jpg" or "AlbumArtSmall.jpg". It will also display album art assigned filename "AlbumArt_WMID_Large...
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Thu, Dec 9 2004 18:17

WMP Artist fields - update 2

A further update to that article: If the Album Artist field is empty, WMP will create a node in that (Album Artist) tree, based on the first listed Contributing Artist (if that field is not empty). One of the consequences of this, is that if you have...
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