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[NoCodeUK]

Hi Matt,

As requested here is a thread concerning the explorer integration issue.  basically this hadn't worked properly for a long time but I put this down to the fact that my PC had a very old XP Install that had had numerous MC betas on there, with lots of changes regarding the shell menu.  Because of this I never reported this as a problem presuming it was my system.  Then at the weekend I reinstalled Windows on my PC.  Brand new install, bare windows, a virus checker and an uninstaller.  The next thing to be installed was MC.  So nothing else on there and no plugins.  When right clicking a file in explorer and selecting play I expected MC to open and then start playing the track...it did the first part.  It opened...but the track was not in playing now and it didn't play.  Replace and play does exacvtly the same thing...MC opens but playing now remains how it was at last shut down.  I do have this option ticked to keep Playing Now when the PC is shut down but would have thought shell integration would override this...

Thanks for listening,

Adam

[NoCodeUK]

Forgot to add sys info...I am not on my Home PC so cannot do a sys info copy but the basic details are:

Athlon XP 1800+ Proc, 384 MB Ram, Windows XP Pro SP1 using latest MC

[Matt]

I'm trying this:

1) MC isn't running
2) Right-click a file and pick "Media Center > Play"

And for me it's working.

Can anyone else reproduce the problem?  Could there be some non-default option that's causing problems?

Thanks Adam.

[DJMUK]

Don't know if this helps.

I followed Matt's instructions and MC opened and the track was in PN but did not start.

I cleared PN and exited from MC then used Matt's instructions again on the same track.  This time it did play.

To see if I could reproduce this I again cleared PN and exited from MC then rebooted and repeated the steps.  Same thing happened i.e first time it did not play on second or subsequent attempts it did.

I rebooted yet again to check and the same thing happened.

In case it may matter Tools->Options->Startup->Start playing current playlist is unchecked.

David

Media Center Registered 10.0.59 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 1540 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 309 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1400 / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1233 (xpsp2.030604-1804) / wnaspi32.dll: 4.60 (1021) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-1999 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.60 (1021)

Ripping /   Drive Y:   Copy mode:ModeSecure   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
  Drive Z:   Copy mode:ModeSecure   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive Y: SAMSUNG  CD-R/RW SW-216B    Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:16  MaxSpeed:16  BurnProof:Yes
  Drive Z: LITE-ON  DVDRW LDW-811S     Addr: 1:1:0  Speed:40  MaxSpeed:40  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

[NoCodeUK]

Matt,

You are probably gonna go mad now...This has not worked for ages...it was not working last night..I cam home from work and just tried it and it is now okay...I must be going mad  It defo wasn't working before the reinstall but now it appears fine...I will go back in my cave now...Thanks for trying to help and next time I'll RTFM!!

Cheers

Adam

[NoCodeUK]

Just found something that is wrong so I am not going completely mad
The first option on my list is Play In Media Center.  I think this is a Windows addition due to MC being my default player for media files.  If I select an album of twelve songs and click this with MC closed I get 12 instances of the same song.  If I do this when MC is open I get the 12 different tracks...
This may be a windows bug however...

Adam

[GrumpyNick]

For me it didn't work the first time, probably because MC was using the media server and downloaded the library first. I switched it to the default library, closed the app and tried again and it worked fine.

[Matt]

Shell extensions weren't reliable with multiple files selected.  

Hopefully it'll be fixed next build.  Let us know if it isn't.

[NoCodeUK]

Cheers Matt... SOrted in latest build...