[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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