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Adam Albright
Ok, file under nitpicking and perhaps it is embedded in the file
header or mistyped in some database somewhere, but it doesn't seem to
make much sense. For those not aware Media Player has the ability to
go out on the web and attempt to find a album cover for whatever music
files you have on your system. It won't work will all and some of the
matches seem strange, still a nice feature if it worked better.
Case in point, I just started looking at my extensive music collection
I recently converted to MP3 format and was looking at the genre*
(type of music) Vista assigned it.
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* If you would like to try this, go to Window Explorer, find a folder
where you have some music files, .wav, MP3 etc.. If you don't already
see the genre column, right click on blank space in the right most
column, select more, then run down the list until you see genre, then
check it, the don't forget to move it up the list to near the top and
finally click apply and ok. You also need to assign a column width.
Now you hit refresh and you should see (assuming Media Player has
already done some research on the web many of your audio files have
now been assigned a genre, like country, blues, rock..
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My question, just scanning my files I see some odd genre assigments
that Vista put there for example:
1. A collection of classics from various masters assigned as blues.
2. 12th Street Rag, a blues song is labeled as country.
3. Blue Danube Waltz, got assigned as blues, oh please!
4. Dance of the Blessed Spirits, classical, shown as blues.
5. Danny Boy, a standard oldie, shown as country. Too funny!
Anybody know what's going on?
header or mistyped in some database somewhere, but it doesn't seem to
make much sense. For those not aware Media Player has the ability to
go out on the web and attempt to find a album cover for whatever music
files you have on your system. It won't work will all and some of the
matches seem strange, still a nice feature if it worked better.
Case in point, I just started looking at my extensive music collection
I recently converted to MP3 format and was looking at the genre*
(type of music) Vista assigned it.
...........................................................................
* If you would like to try this, go to Window Explorer, find a folder
where you have some music files, .wav, MP3 etc.. If you don't already
see the genre column, right click on blank space in the right most
column, select more, then run down the list until you see genre, then
check it, the don't forget to move it up the list to near the top and
finally click apply and ok. You also need to assign a column width.
Now you hit refresh and you should see (assuming Media Player has
already done some research on the web many of your audio files have
now been assigned a genre, like country, blues, rock..
...........................................................................
My question, just scanning my files I see some odd genre assigments
that Vista put there for example:
1. A collection of classics from various masters assigned as blues.
2. 12th Street Rag, a blues song is labeled as country.
3. Blue Danube Waltz, got assigned as blues, oh please!
4. Dance of the Blessed Spirits, classical, shown as blues.
5. Danny Boy, a standard oldie, shown as country. Too funny!
Anybody know what's going on?