Is there any real fix for issue with media player 11 that it resize folder.jpg in import to it's library? I know i can batch script backup and then import it again, but i want auto import working and make it easier and smoother etc.

I know how annoying that little bastard code in WMP11 replaces even Read-Only Folder.jpg!!

Here is a workaround:

Create a Read-Only Network folder e.g. \\LOLITA-PC\Music

In WMP11, go to Monitor Folders...

Add...

Now DON'T choose \\LOLITA-PC\Music directly from My Network Places.

Go to Entire Network

Choose Microsoft Windows Network

Choose your domain

Choose your Computer. Select \\LOLITA-PC\Music

Press OK.

Thank you! That is cute, simple and seams working.

Pleasure..

...also when you access your Music share from other LAN computers, do not log on with Administrator credentials and do something like \\LOLITA-PC\F$\Music (assuming you have Music folder in F:\ drive ) because that gives full Write access.


With WMP11 I also found it out it ZEROes TrackCount tag.. I am suprised I am the only one seem to having that problem. This has been a permanent problem.

The read-only share however should take care of that error too.

I found someone who had trackcount problem too. I think that most people (even peoples ) don't use it.

Maybe someday there will be enough advanced alternative for WMP on windows ... and that will force microsoft to make new version even better

Lolita!

What do you find in WMP as advanced, that's not in iTunes?

An advanced player would also be foobar2000.

A few things:

- Integrated metadata/album art lookup and tagging from AMG, Muze and others
- Automatic adding of new files to library
- In Windows Vista, WMP11 is nicely integrated with the OS

Why would they? Adding "advanced" features would take resources. Resources are always finite even for such a wealthy organization, and those resources might be more profitably applied elsewhere. And since "advanced" features (stuff like ABX-ing capability, I suppose you mean) would only please a few users ...

It's not as if they're bleeding "customers" who're looking for such features. Insofar as they didn't get market share it wasn't for lack of such features in the software but simply because people saw what the product was and didn't like it.

One imagines they will finally add RSS support to WMP, but that's a much bigger deal than any "advanced" features.

You've got to look for the economic motive. It's not like the IE saga. There the excellence of Firefox has compelled Microsoft to get up off its arse again, and implement just a little CSS. Apart from anything else, it had got too embarrassing to have Mozilla constantly showing how much better a browser can be built.

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/19/2231235

But there was an economic reason why Microsoft at first spent like crazy on IE (in order to kill Netscape) and then an economic reason why it killed development on IE (to protect the Windows API). It's all outlined here:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html

And there's an economic reason why the Borg's now got people working on IE again. As Joel Spolsky explains there, the "API War" has been lost. It seems to follow that they have to go in and compete on the web now. Microsoft can't afford to have people use Firefox, which runs equally well on a Mac or on Linux. They'll implement a few standards, but they'll also try to get webmasters to use new proprietary web technologies (c.f. Silverlight), to get themselves back in the driving seat.

This kind of thing determines what time and effort is spent on: Where will a company make or lose money is the question?

Integration to windows, speed.

On mac i would you itunes from same reasons

Foobar is too "hardcore" and don't have library as good as WMP and when i tried some skins, plugins etc. to have better library it becomes realy slow ):

Oh, and my word advanced was not mean as advanced in function and how many things i can do in it, but advanced in user experience and easy to use (library and system intergration again)

Thanks Lolita/Others. Yeah I understand WMP11 has a nice Folder Monitoring system and all the OS integration esp with Windows Vista Media Center. The ONLY grudge I have is that it is clearing up my TrackCount tag if I give WMP11 write access.


I also found out a case where the Read-Only network share wouldn't work with WMP11!

Suppose you have dead-tracks in WMP11 library and you double click on them
WMP11 finds them in your Local HDD and stores a Local file path to the file

See first track:



So we might need a tool to find and remove dead tracks without letting WMP11 do it.

I have other problem with it and hopefully last - one of my album arts is black [yes, black not a cd in empty case like in case of not found folder.jpg] in library. I googled for fix, but i don't find anything useful. Do you know how to fix it?

I tried converting it to PNG and back to JPG withouth success ):

BTW it is realy nice to see all my album arts in library, but still 470 is ok and this one not. ):

Lolita, what happens when you drag and drop a proper Album Art to that black box?

Btw here is my research when it first came out
http://wmwiki.com/mcored/research/wmp/

Wonder how much has changed since then.

Hope you find that interesting.

It started working on its own ... MS standard - i just deleted and rebuilded library few times.

BTW Sometimes it split one album into two because it have different id3v1 and id3v2, but i fixed these albums.

Now what is funy i got few files in unknown and i fixed everything (errors in mp3s etc.), but i have all midnight oil albums in unknown and i realy don't know how to fix this - foobar validator tells me that files are valid and plays it, but WMP don't play it (media monkey don't play it also). I don't know what other software to try.

This is from mp3val frontend:
when i try to fixit in mp3val and then scan it in it again i get same error ...

EDIT: grrr it is 2.40 AM so im bit more stupid then usually now ... it writes that it is mp2 and not mp3 so i just need to reencode it .... i wonder where and how i get mp2 ) And also in foobar file properties i is mp2 ...