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[xJakex]

I just had to test this out myself, so i transferred my songs from my Vista partition to the Win7 partition, added the folder where my songs are in, and i tried everything to make it happen, but nothing worked! I have no idea what everyone else did. I have the default settings for WMP, and still nothing.

[xiphi]

QuietStorm21A, on Dec 31 2008, 09:14, said:

Can we pin point it to which release is doing it? Because 6801 & 6956 where both fine for me. Will be installing 7000 soon.

bAsKeT cAsE which version where you using when you first noticed it?

It started happening in 6956.

xJakex, on Dec 31 2008, 09:54, said:

I just had to test this out myself, so i transferred my songs from my Vista partition to the Win7 partition, added the folder where my songs are in, and i tried everything to make it happen, but nothing worked! I have no idea what everyone else did. I have the default settings for WMP, and still nothing.

It doesn't seem to effect all songs. Which makes the problem even weirder. Try to update album info and see if that causes the issue.

[James7]

It must be a terrible flaw. As others pointed out, a media player should just play the media and not alter it. Why would this sort of error even occur? Are Microsoft planning to alter or stamp people's media files in Windows 7 in some way or another?

[xJakex]

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It doesn't seem to effect all songs. Which makes the problem even weirder. Try to update album info and see if that causes the issue.

You mean Apply Media Information Changes? I tried that yesterday and the server was busy, that could explain it, if that's what i'm supposed to click on.

EDIT: NVM i found out how to do it, now I'm just going to wait and see if anything happens.

Edited by xJakex, 31 December 2008 - 15:17.

[callummr]

I've been trying to use WMP majoritively, and iTunes only for syncing. Now a substantial chunk of my library, even in iTunes, is screwed.
Whilst I understand that this is a beta OS and beta version of WMP, it seems like a pretty huge bug considering it's actually just stripping out parts of songs without giving even a notification, and I wouldn't expect it to be left in beta 1.
Guess I better get on and fix up the songs. Only a few hundred *sigh*.

[Digitalx]

I've had it in a couple of songs my music isn't on same partition or hard drive as my 7 install in 6956. Has anyone checked if it's linked to the encoding(what software/codec was used sort of thing like LAME etc) or bitrate/VBR ?

[Steven77]

As bad as it sucks, except for a select few, NONE of us should even have this installed So really it's our fault not MS.

[Pikey]

No problems here .. but I always un-tick the initial settings for 'Apply Media Information Changes ..' in the Media Player settings!

[XerXis]

Mercellus, on Dec 31 2008, 02:46, said:

Heads are going to be rolling within the Windows Media team for this one.

why? because people that were using a leaked beta version of windows (and hence media player) found a bug? This is exactly the reason why you have to be careful with betas

[MeDieViL02]

James7, on Dec 31 2008, 16:08, said:

It must be a terrible flaw. As others pointed out, a media player should just play the media and not alter it. Why would this sort of error even occur? Are Microsoft planning to alter or stamp people's media files in Windows 7 in some way or another?

yeah its a very weird bug

[Adequate]

Okay...

Stuff happens to leaked beta users' mp3 files due to MS bug.

This begs the question: what in the blue hell were those users doing using a beta OS on their MAIN computer?


But hey, people learn from their mistakes, I guess... well, let's hope they do.

[pete138]

I had this problem in 6956, installed build 7000 and my mp3's is fine.

[theyarecomingforyou]

Adequate, on Dec 31 2008, 16:30, said:

This begs the question: what in the blue hell were those users doing using a beta OS on their MAIN computer?

Whoever said it was their main computer? And at least some of those affected have said they can simply restore the data from backups, so clearly people are taking sensible precautions.

[James123]

Has this actually happened to anyone here running build 7000 or is everyone complaining about a bug that was in some already obsolete builds? If it has... report it. That's what betas are for, bugs are expected, if you're using a beta (or even worse, pre-beta) OS with files you don't have backed up it's your own fault if something like this happens.

[DARKFiB3R]

Thank God I haven't had this issue, I'd be furious.

As far as I'm concerned, the WMP guys are ****ing ******s. First they make the default action for removing songs from the library, actually delete the files from your HDD, and now this major **** up!

You are playing with peoples property here, please be a bit more considerate.