Music Player & Playlists

[bobbfrommn]

I have something odd going on in the Music Player plug in. I make a playlist from media player but when I open it up in Music Player some of the songs don't show up. I just did a 30+ song list and only 22 entries show. I can find and play the tracks individually if I look in the directory they just aren't showing up in the MP plug in. If I open the playlist in win media the tracks are right there.

The only thing I can think of is recently I consolidated al of my music files on to my E: drive. Some got moved from other drives they were on but as I said it seems to see them correctly.

[Jeff]

Are all all mp3 files or are some wma files? If they are of differnt types, make sure you have all the extensions listed in the plug-in as music files. You can also look in the music player.log file int he jeff subdirectory and see what it says.

Jeff

[bobbfrommn]

All are mp3's. I looked at the log directory. Not sure what exactly I'm looking for but one of the missing ones was AC/DC, Gone Shootin, Powerage CD. There was an entry for it that looked like this

4/8/2006 12:39:04 PM[66] ++ Filling sub directories under E:\My Music\Metal\AC-DC\Powerage ++
4/8/2006 12:39:04 PM[66] In FillRootDir for root E:\My Music\Metal\AC-DC\Powerage
4/8/2006 12:39:04 PM[66] Adding directory item Powerage
4/8/2006 12:39:04 PM[66] Existing index is -1
4/8/2006 12:39:04 PM[66] Leaving FillRootDir for root E:\My Music\Metal\AC-DC\Powerage
4/8/2006 12:39:04 PM[66] ++ Done filling sub directories under E:\My Music\Metal\AC-DC\Powerage ++

Thats the correct directory and path info.

[Jeff]

How about if you post the playlist file. I don't use playlists myself so my testing with them has been very limitied. I fi have yours I could try it here and see what happens.

Jeff

[bobbfrommn]

Ok here's one...

[bobbfrommn]

any luck Jeff?

[Jeff]

Yes. I think the problem is that the playlist use HTML encoding for things like ampersands (&amp and apostrophes (&apos in the album and track names. I will post an update for you to test when I have one.

Jeff

[Jeff]

Can you try this? Let me know if it works.

Jeff

[bobbfrommn]

There's a problem with the zip file, it say's there are no files to extract when I use the wizard, when I try to open it directly it says the file is "Invalid or Corrupt".

[Jeff]

Are you using IE to download the ZIP? if so, try firefx. There seem to be problems downloading attached zip files with IE. I just tried with firefox and it looks fine to me.

Jeff