[AccessD] OT: Windows Media Player path to music

William Hindman wdhindman at bellsouth.net
Sat Nov 1 15:00:02 CST 2003


....also KB 272116 has a transfer method if the f&r didn't work.

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 2:31 PM
Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: Windows Media Player path to music


> 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. Colby
> > > > www.colbyconsulting.com
> > > >
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