Audio / MP3 questions

[vassie]

Any news on this feature?

I have a few compilation albums that have "Various Artist" in the BAND ID3 tag, however, Windows Media Player 12 (via WMS) shows them like this...

http://img158.yfrog.com/img158/8779/49275952.png
(I know that is an image of TwonkyMedia, but WMS does the same)

Thanks

Ben

[Eugene]

Any news on this feature?

I have a few compilation albums that have "Various Artist" in the BAND ID3 tag, however, Windows Media Player 12 (via WMS) shows them like this...

http://img158.yfrog.com/img158/8779/49275952.png
(I know that is an image of TwonkyMedia, but WMS does the same)

Any news

[LouisXIV]

Sorry for taking so long. Have been very busy with a lot of things, which did not include TV & WMS

I have upgraded to thge lastest version and found a number of improvements! Great! I do have some (new) questions however ....

You have included track number in track title which makes sorting a bit strange. Tracks are now sorted by number instead of first letter.

Also I still use the playlist Artist Index (scripted) instead of the default Artist Index because the script first gives me a letter (A, B, C) and then the list of artists with that letter. The default Artist Index is far too large for me

Maybe something that can be a new feature: would it be possible to select the sort order? When I now choose Artist Index -> Artist it shows a list of albums alphabeticly sorted. I would personnaly like to sort based on album year. Maybe it would be possible to add a config setting choosing sort order?

I still love the program and hope to have a bit more time the next weeks

[LouisXIV]

Almost forgot....

I found WMS takes a long time to switch between tracks when the num,ber of tracks in a directory is growing. I have a directory with approx. 3.500 tracks, switching (manually or shuffle play) between tracks can take up to 10 seconds.

[LouisXIV]

You have included track number in track title which makes sorting a bit strange. Tracks are now sorted by number instead of first letter.

Changed Settings -> Device -> Include in title music media resource track number .... did the trick

[LouisXIV]

Also I still use the playlist Artist Index (scripted) instead of the default Artist Index because the script first gives me a letter (A, B, C) and then the list of artists with that letter. The default Artist Index is far too large for me

Another strange thing I just found: the WMS Artist list does not import artists correctly: I have artistnames like "Blues Brothers, The" and "Police, The". When these Artists are imported in the database only the text after the "," is included.... so now I have a lot of Artists "The"

The script I also use imports OK ....

[Eugene]

Also I still use the playlist Artist Index (scripted) instead of the default Artist Index because the script first gives me a letter (A, B, C) and then the list of artists with that letter. The default Artist Index is far too large for me

Another strange thing I just found: the WMS Artist list does not import artists correctly: I have artistnames like "Blues Brothers, The" and "Police, The". When these Artists are imported in the database only the text after the "," is included.... so now I have a lot of Artists "The"

The script I also use imports OK ....

The comma is listing the artists, at the moment I have no idea what this could be done without loss of uniformity.

[LouisXIV]

[quote="EugeneThe comma is listing the artists, at the moment I have no idea what this could be done without loss of uniformity.[/quote]

Don't know if it helps, but the "Artist Index" script I also use works fine with me, even with the comma