John Colby
jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Nov 1 13:31:18 CST 2003
Right you are. Trying that now. John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of William Hindman Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 2:23 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Windows Media Player path to music JC ...open it in notepad and scan down past all the goobledy gook ...you'll find a csv string listing of all your media information which can readily be f&r'd in notepad. William Hindman <http://www.freestateproject.org> - Next Year In The Free State! ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 1:39 PM Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: Windows Media Player path to music > I tried opening it with notepad and it opened (it's 15 MBYTES however, but > it appears to be a database of some sort (not clear text). The extension is > WMDB which sounds suspiciously like an access database so I tried to open it > with A2K. "Unknown file format". I'll try again with AXP. > > John W. Colby > www.colbyconsulting.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of William > Hindman > Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 1:14 PM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Windows Media Player path to music > > > ...so why not open the file in notepad and do a replace all ...or just do > another scan :( > > William Hindman > <http://www.freestateproject.org> - Next Year In The Free State! > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com> > To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 12:51 PM > Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: Windows Media Player path to music > > > > No, the music directory was a shared directory on my computer. I shared > the > > Music Directory, then mapped it to M: on all of my computers. Thus the > > "path", instead of M:\someArtist ended up being jcolby-ws\SomeArtist. > IOW, > > Windows media player didn't use the mapped drive as the path but the > > workstation. No se por que. > > > > Mary's computer has always been the player, it just used to get the music > > off of my computer across the net. Now it is getting it off her own > > computer (I moved that drive to her computer). I thought if I shared the > > Music directory and mapped it to M: Media player would just work. But > > NOOOOOOoooooooo. The music itself is no longer on jcolby-ws it's on > > mcolby-ws. > > > > Why in the world it would use the workstation name instead of the mapped > > drive is beyond me but it is damned annoying! It is remotely possible > that > > I told it to search using the network neighborhood path but that doesn't > > seem like something I would do. ;-) > > > > John W. Colby > > www.colbyconsulting.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of William > > Hindman > > Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 12:39 PM > > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > > Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Windows Media Player path to music > > > > > > JC > > > > ...simply copy your *wmbd files located in your C:\Documents and > > Settings\YourUserName\Local > Settings\ApplicationData\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\ > > folder over to the same folder under Mary's user directory. > > > > ...I'm using WXP and Media Player 9 but the same idea should work for W2K > > ...HTH :) > > > > William Hindman > > <http://www.freestateproject.org> - Next Year In The Free State! > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "John Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com> > > To: "AccessD" <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com> > > Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 12:02 PM > > Subject: [AccessD] OT: Windows Media Player path to music > > > > > > > In the process of making my computers quieter I moved a hard disk to my > > > wife's computer (let her listen to it!) ;-). > > > > > > Anyway, all it had on it was my ripped music collection which is played > on > > > her computer anyway since it has the speakers now. Unfortunately the > path > > > to the music doesn't use MappedDrive:\Music, it uses jcolby-WS\Music. > Is > > > there anyway to tell Media Player to change where it is looking for > these > > > things short of a new scan? > > > > > > John W. 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