Comments on: WMP11/Vista Problem

By: Wok

Wok — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:38:32 +0000

Charlie Owen is THE MAN!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:05:00 +0000

nice one charlie owen this problem has bugged me for months!!! like everything in vista delete one little thing and problem solved. cheers mate!!!!!

By: ccoltmanm

ccoltmanm — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:40:00 +0000

You can select “Apply changes” which will force the updated info to show. Otherwise, it takes its sweet arse time

By: Charlie Owen

Charlie Owen — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:10:00 +0000

1) Close Windows Media Player.
2) Delete or rename the %userdir%\appdata\local\microsoft\media player folder. For example: C:\Users\charlieo\appdata\Local\Microsoft\media player.
3) Launch Windows Media Player.

Your content should start to automatically be added (and be correct). If it doesn't start adding items to your library, check the settings in Library > Add To Library.

By: BigScreen.com

BigScreen.com — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:28:00 +0000

I've found WMP to be a little temperamental in this regard, but I no longer use it to rip CD's as it's too slow and low-featured for my taste.

I have been using dBpoweramp:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

and I've been very, very happy with it. Hyperthreading/dual-core/dual-processor support, more codecs than you could possibly use, and multiple sources of metatag information.

You can set WMP to auto-search your directories if you don't want to manually add the files you've ripped, but I'd rather do it manually than have yet another process running all the time.

Spending a little time with a package like dBpoweramp will demonstrate just how arcane WMP and even iTunes is at converting music.

Oh, and dBpoweramp is Vista compatible!

By: JeffH

JeffH — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:04:00 +0000

Tom, I’ve been using Cdex Ripper for almost 10 years. I’m quite happy with it. It rips CD’s using one of many free open source encoders, it correctly fills in the ID3V1 and ID3V2 tags from one of several free CDDB’s, you can customize the format of the file name, it’s Free. Here’s a link: http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/?q=features

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:03:00 +0000

Try two things:

1. In Tools|Library, under Player, try "Connect to the Internet (overrides other commands).

Also, is it possible that WMP is "seeing" other album art in the ID3 tags or similar of the file? By default it won't overwrite. Under Tools|Library, I'm assuming you have "Only add missing information" selected?

By: barrettmanor

barrettmanor — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:52:00 +0000

Are these commercial CDs or burned media? WMP doesn’t always pull the data out of burned media.