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re: Fixing MP3 files with unrecognized Duration tags

Mike — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:56:44 GMT

I can't see how this relates at all.

re: Windows Media Player Library Bugs and Irritations

Eric — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:54:33 GMT

I can comment on the second one in the list:
"*Doesn’t reliably split semicolon-delimited artist or composer string fields into separate tokens"

I actually stumbled across the real cause of this pretty much accidentally. It will split the fields correctly if you list the tokens alphabetically. So for example: "Dr.Dre;Snoop Dogg" will get split correctly, but "Snoop Dogg;Dr. Dre" will not.

re: WMP Album Art - Viewing and Correcting local files

Mike — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:34:00 GMT

Guys, I used to be a WMP devotee because everyone says wma is a superior format than mp3. Well, that gave me a headache when I was looking for a player that plays wma also. Then there is the chaging wma codec standard, makes wonder if my early adotiopn (hence the earlier format) was going to become obsolete. Then this was the biggest enlightment... I can't even tell any difference!!! I mean, for the average listener, what difference is there if mp3 is a "looser formate" as many articles writes? Still, I held on to wma for sometime because of its more robust tag feature... that is until the incarnation of ID3 v2.4. I've recently migrated all my backup files from wma to mp3 with ID3 2.1, 2.3, and 2.4. This time, I took the time to do it right, even with scanning my own art covers. ID3 2.4 even surpasses wma tag. Now I can enter all the musicians on my classical collection and the instruments each musician plays! It won't be before long that softwares and machines recognizing v2.4 becomes popular. What does this have to do with WMP and album art? Well, simply put, you no longer have to deal with another thing that Microsoft is trying to do to befuddle users into conforming to its methodology and, as demonstrated above, often annoyance. Of course, you should have a good MP3 ripper; but after that, you will be on your way to build a good, clean, library!

re: Allchin: minor WMP update this year

Mike — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 10:30:00 GMT

<i>linking of error IDs to online resources</>
How so? I work pretty closely with that team. Is there anything specific here? Generally this is definitely improving over time, but it's improving from such a bad "old-fashioned" state that there's still a long way to go to make everyone happy and cover the bases in full.

re: Windows Media Player Library

Mike — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 10:24:00 GMT

I'm confused by Ink's comment. The major nodes in WMP10 are Album Artist, Artist, Album, and so forth. So that should already exist unless I'm missing something.

re: Windows Media Player update to 10.00.00.3802

Mike — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 10:55:00 GMT

sux

Using full locales rather than the neutral ones?

TrackBack — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:49:00 GMT

Late last year, I asked and answered two 'neutral' questions: What is a neutral culture? What is a neutral...

re:Allchin says no WMP fixes until Longhorn

TrackBack — Tue, 24 May 2005 04:40:00 GMT

Allchin says no WMP fixes until Longhornooeess

re:Online store opens in New Zealand

TrackBack — Wed, 18 May 2005 12:04:00 GMT

^_~,pretty good!csharpsseeoo

re: Online store opens in New Zealand

Mike — Mon, 16 May 2005 10:01:00 GMT

There is another way of getting the original info back (posted by someone here i think, sorry i don't know who). Close WMP. Block WMP access to go.microsoft.com in your firewall. Delete the registry subkeys at HKCU>Software>Microsoft>MediaPlayer>Services (IF YOU DON'T KNOW WOT I'M TALKING ABOUT DON'T DO THIS!). Hey presto!

re: Allchin: minor WMP update this year

Mike — Fri, 13 May 2005 04:32:00 GMT

I hope they test it in conjunction with Windows Media Connect too. I have noticed inconsistencies between my WMP10 library and the search performed by my Roku Soundbridge M2000.

re:Allchin: minor WMP update this year

TrackBack — Fri, 06 May 2005 07:03:00 GMT

^_~,pretty good!csharpsseeoo

re:Allchin says no WMP fixes until Longhorn

TrackBack — Tue, 03 May 2005 03:38:00 GMT

^_~,pretty good!csharpsseeoo

re: Fixing MP3 files with unrecognized Duration tags

Mike — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 08:08:00 GMT

You probably have a bad song entry in your WMP database. Check this link out:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/newsgroups/WindowsMedia/default.mspx?query=C00D32CA&lang=en&cr=US&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player&p=1&mid=f6736a2a-a1ae-46fc-9fb3-b5d4dcb21dee&tid=f8c1766b-6af6-4560-ac2d-c327cdbb3f5a

re:Online store opens in New Zealand

TrackBack — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:13:00 GMT

^_~,pretty good!csharpsseeoo

re:Bundling of Proofing Tools

TrackBack — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:13:00 GMT

^_~,pretty good!csharpsseeoo

re: Windows Media Player Library Bugs and Irritations

Mike — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:48:00 GMT

Dear Ink - as i have written many times above: POST QUESTIONS TO THE WINDOWSMEDIA NEWSGROUPS!! If you can't follow that then any commentary I make will be pointless.

Most of your questions are already answered in articles and posts on this site anyway.

OT posts will be deleted.

re: Windows Media Player Library Bugs and Irritations

Mike — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:50:00 GMT

And also ... Why Microsoft WMP team doesn't plan to introduce a node grouping entries by <artist> (or <author> that is the same tag)? All others player and library software store artist information in this tag! You have to copy <artist> tag to <album artist> or <composer> to browse your files with WMP. Incredible!

re: Windows Media Player Library

Mike — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:49:00 GMT

Why Microsoft WMP team doesn't plan to introduce a node grouping entries by <artist> (or <author> that is the same tag)? All others player and library software store artist information in this tag! You have to copy <artist> tag to <album artist> or <composer> to browse your files with WMP. Incredible!

re: Windows Media Player Library Bugs and Irritations

Mike — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:28:00 GMT

Maybe this is an OT, but it seems to me incredible that in WMP users can't choose the PATH where files are moved-to when automatic rearranging of library is "turned on".
WMP stores by default in "..\<album artist>\<album>\" directory, but many mp3 files managed by other player only have <artist> tag instead of <album artist>
I can't find a solution to this issue, even looking inside text-based configuration files of WMP.
Any suggestion?