Wmp 11 in Windows XP

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Tamooka

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Woah, no need for such drastic measures! You can just download a free third party application to handle your iPod such as Ephpod, YamiPod, vPod, or pay program like Anapod or Xplay.

I've tried most of them, didn't really like them ... i've been thinking about getting a Creative ZEN for a while now. I just wanted to wait and see if WMP11 would support the iPod.

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Ambroos

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http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/trial.php

Use Anapod Explorer Trial Edition (no time limit) to integrate your iPod in the Windows Shell, so you can sync to your iPod with WMP. If you try to sync WMA's it will automatically convert it to a supported format!

i'm not really sure because i don't have an iPod but i think it should work...

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.mcman

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Is online resoureces (just like URGE and the others like VH1) accessible from other countries than USA? I live in Hungary, and id like to try out these services. how to do it? please help

thanks

This is from the term of use

The Website, the Software and the Service is offered and made available only to users 13 years of age or older who are residents of the United States of America ("U.S."), its territories and possessions including the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Baker Island, Guam, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands, Navassa Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palmyra Atoll, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Wake Island (collectively, the "Territory").

:(

But you can still watch music videos and listen to previews if you'll set your location to US. (i'm not sure if it's legal)

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Julius Caro

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These files are perfectly id3tag edited in iTunes.

Don't trust iTunes that much!

If the songs have both id3v1 and id3v2.x , itunes edits JUST one of them (not sure which), leaving the other unchanged, so they may contain contradictory information on the same song. Then when you try adding that song to another player, you may encounter problems because that players picks the tag with the wrong information or something.

I'm not blaming iTunes, but maybe you should look onto that.

I got one of this mp3 tagging apps (tag&rename). I deleted ALL tags from problematic albums, edited the ID3v2.3 ones, and automatically the ID3v1 are updated with the same information (except for album art, which id3v1 doesnt support). The program in most of cases updates the "album artist" tag (a tag different than the "artist"). "Album artist" is what WMP uses to correctly link albums, artists and songs. AFAIK, iTunes doesnt even edit that tag.

I had to edit ALL my music library tags so that itunes(for my ipod), wmp (for mediacenter) and foobar (the one I use) would show the same information, so I know what we're talking about here, hehe

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Forte Escape

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A great improvement over previous versions, it's very fast and the album art library is a very nice feature, but it has a terrible sorting flaw (at least to me), any album seems to be sorted this way: Album/Artist/Track Num. The problem is that I have a lot of albums with multiple artist, that end up sorted the wrong way.

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Bobster

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I've only got one real problem with WMP 11. It's that it doesn't seem to save the album art that I have pasted into it. Look at the screenshot below for an example of what I mean. When I right click on the small album art picture and click "Paste Album Art" in Artist view, nothing happens and the album art isn't there.

Anyone know how to fix this?

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canadian397

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Too bad. WMP11 doesn't support AAC. The screenshot must be fake.

WMP11 still misreads id3tags. I wonder why the same album is listed FOUR times in the Library. These files are perfectly id3tag edited in iTunes.

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My WMP11 was doing that early. I just had to change some of the tags (Nice new tag editor :D) and now everything is fine :yes:

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jdbrookes

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That is actually a Music icon infront with a video Icon behind

Actually that's right... is it a bug?

Click Once = EQ

Click Twice = Album Art/Video Thumbnail

Click 3 Times = Play Icon/Media Icon

Didn't realise this, thanks! Looks better now...

Ok, slightly stupid question.... I know that the stacked CDs feature thing is in the Vista version of WMP11, but where is it in the XP version? Can't find it....

Thanks!

Dave

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jdbrookes

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yeah, silly question, beside the search box, see that icon (in library) on the left side? That's your views, you get to choose from 3 of them. Pick the one you like

Yeah I was using that button.... Ok so those are all the views available? I thought there was some sort of funky 3d view available... my mistake :whistle:

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Pettor

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Well really nice.

But now two questions.

1. Play a song while watching the library (for exemple the "songs" section). When the songs ends and a new songs starts playing, the new player doesn't jump to the new song. Is there any way to make the player do this?

2. Is URGE coming to Europe?

3. When looking in the "album" section some albums doesn't have any art. It sais "paste here", so i put an image there, but nothing happens. When clicking on the album so the player only shows that album, the art shows. This is a beta so there is not a big problem, but if can be fixed it would be nice.

4. When looking around in the library and then switching to "now playing" and then back to the library the player won't "remember" where i was looking in the active section. It would be nice if it could.

Very nice player by the way, URGE really looks great. I would like it to come to sweden.

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none_needed

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Didn't realise this, thanks! Looks better now...

Ok, slightly stupid question.... I know that the stacked CDs feature thing is in the Vista version of WMP11, but where is it in the XP version? Can't find it....

Thanks!

Dave

no prob buddy. if u have more than one album for one particular artist, and if u click the view button the one besides the search box and set it to expanded tile or icon, u'll get a nice spiral looking album art with all the album cover for the particular artist sitting on top of each other.

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jdbrookes

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no prob buddy. if u have more than one album for one particular artist, and if u click the view button the one besides the search box and set it to expanded tile or icon, u'll get a nice spiral looking album art with all the album cover for the particular artist sitting on top of each other.

Aha... I have only now got the WMP library organised, I see what you mean by the spiral stack, nice touch. It makes popular artists more visible in the library. I have a lot of compilation albums, so there are a lot of single-song artist entries in the Artists view... its kind of annoying. iTunes has that option that hides compilation artists, making it a lot easier to find artists with full albums. Not every artist is listed.

My impression of WMP11 is that it is great for organising your music, and it looks nice too, but it might not be particularly easy to manage an iTunes library and a WMP11 library simultaneously... don't want to screw up my iTunes library with some creative tag editing in WMP11 :p

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