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[scott_r]

Hello.

Today I was introduced to Magnatune. I sugest you check it out - it's very cool. "shareware" music. Try before you buy, with 128k mp3, and then you can choose what you pay for it if you like it. You can then download in a format of your choice, from mp3 to FLAC to WAV. The artists get 50% on each sale, and they retain the rights to their music.

But that's not the point.
I found a playlist I liked, clicked on it and lo and behold, Windows Media Player decided that it was best at handling m3u files and so promptly did so. In disgust, I closed it, after noticing that the currently playing track had all of it's tag info there, whereas files it hadn't played yet were just listed as urls. Fair enough.
I opened up the m3u with Media Center, and MC listed all the unplayed songs as "song", which is I guess nicer than the url for each song.
However, when it played each song, it didn't get any of the tags.
The files are all encoded in mp3, and WMP was able to get artist, name, album, length etc as soon as it started playing.

Is this how MC is supposed to work? I was really gutted, because there was no way for me to know who the artist was that was playing. I actually had to go back and used WMP. I'm really really really sorry - please don't kill me.

Anyway, is this just how it is, or is it a bug?

Here's a playlist for your reference:
http://www.magnatune.com/artists/music/Electronica/Magnatune%20Compilation/Electronica/Electronica-http.m3u

Thanks,

Scott.

[cascius]

Very true Scott, kinda frustrating to have 100 songs listed as "song"... Cause if you want to buy one of them, well, you're kinda missing some crucial information.  ?

-Cascius

[scott_r]

Indeed.

Also,

If a song in the playlist hasn't been played before, when it does start playing for the first time the total song length is received and displayed in the player bar area as normal, but the System Tray tooltip displays "Live", and the Status Bar doesn't show anything.
However, if you play the song again, the System Tray tooltip and the status bar both display the correct length.

Also, the file lengths persists between sessions, even though I have automatic importing turned off. Somewhere MC is remembering how long each file is.   ?

[Matt]

MC doesn't read ID3v2 tags from streams.  We may add this in a future version.

And if you leave a file in Playing Now, MC will remeber everything about it (even between sessions) until it's removed from Playing Now.

[GHammer]

MC doesn't read ID3v2 tags from streams.  We may add this in a future version.

Here here! It's one thing I miss from other players.
How do I know who I like otherwise

[scott_r]

MC doesn't read ID3v2 tags from streams.  We may add this in a future version.

Lets hope so. Windows Media Player is really killing my inner child.

Scott.