Showing posts with label Things That Just Don't Work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Things That Just Don't Work. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Window Media Player Changed Images To 200 x 200

How upset was I when I found that my music collection for 43 years was now destroyed.

Yes WMP12 had changed it all, everything was working fine till the update.

So all those years of keeping all images at 300 x 300 was worth it .....Not.

Luckily I had a backup.

Media Player should make a copy of the image in a smaller size to use in media player, but leave my images as is.

I use MCE and Music Browser and it uses my large images and does not touch anything at all.

When media player resizes these image it then expands it and distorts images.

Anyway I found this info that may help :

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpromedia/thread/747b74e2-4f29-42f2-8457-f9513bee5c23/

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=75461

Don't get me wrong, the Latest update to Media Player 12 has had a lot of work done, just upset over the images.

Now I will have to spend another two days working out how to stop my media from being touched, then make sure it doesn't. What happens when I add new music, will I remember to modify those folders to read only etc.

This is what I have done after hours reading everyone else's disappointment

I tried this on a new windows 7 machine with Media Player V12.0.7601.17514

I created one artist folder, with one album in it and a folder.jpg picture of 300 x 300.

I then went to Start, from search programs and files, keyed in regedit.

If you are not familiar with regedit don't attempt this.

If you are feeling confident go to File then Export create a name then back up to folder first.

Scrolled to HKEY CURRENT USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences

One thing most people have failed to explain is that you will need to create these entries.

LargeAlbumArtSize = dword -:ffffffff


SmallAlbumArtSize = dword: - ffffffff

Right click on preferences and choose new dword, enter LargeAlbumArtSize

Double click on this entry and change the value to ffffffffff

Right click on preferences again, choose new dword, enter SmallAlbumArtSize

Double click on this entry and change the value to ffffffffff



All options in media player were turned off - found in tools then options, check every tab and turn off all updates of any type.

I the ran Media player and added the music folder and this time the folder.jpg was not changed, only hidden.

I always keep my operating system files shown.

This unfortunately keeps a desktop.ini file on the desktop but it doesn't bother me.

It allows me to see the folder.jpg files once hidden and that is important to me.

If you cant see your hidden folder.jpg then go to Start Then Control Panel, Folder Options, view, show hidden files, folders, and drives and also untick hide protected operating system files(recommended).

After a few years, everything seemed to be OK till I noticed that some folders had their folder.jpg files changed to 200 x 200.

Not sure why yet but it may be due file sharing on other computers (keep you informed)

Found this : http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-pictures/album-art-size-windows-media-player-12/6a2c3727-43ae-43a3-ace1-c48008811e92?page=2

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Getting Mtv And More From Australia

You want to watch MTV but restrictions in Australia prevent you from doing so.
Well Its annoying
I was trying to get Mtv Plugin for Media centre windows 7 to work but its still not working.
Well The browser option without Media centre will have to do for now.
Go to : http://www.hotspotshield.com/downloads/thank-you-AU/
Run
When installed you should see a green shield in the System tray.
The browser should say, STATE:  CONNECTED. If you click on the details button you will see the VPN Ip address that has given to you from the USA. To disconnect right click on the shield and disconnect.

Now from the browser type http://www.mefeedia.com/

If you haven't already done so please register first or login if you have.

Click sites

This will give you a list of Over 33,533 video sources

Mtv.com, Abc News, Hulu just to name a few.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Windows Mail Stopped After Update

Windows mail stopped after msoe.dll had been updated
Go to task manager ctrl, alt & delete
Check to see if winmail.exe is running if so end process
Go to c:program files/windows mail/ rename msoe.dll to msoe.old.dll
Download an old version of the msoe.dll and place it in the program files/windows mail/ folder
Download GrantAdminFullControl.reg
This places a right mouse option to grant full access to the file.
Right click on the new msoe.dll (the one you just downloaded that is) & grant full access.
Run winmail.exe
All works if it doesn't, it is either running and you haven't stopped it or you haven't downloaded a working version.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Coverflow Issues Iphone

Same Album Name By Different Artists Itunes
Iphone cover flow mode on the iPhone 3gs has a problem when you have two albums with the same name for E.G gold & gold.
One is Abba gold & the other is Bon Jovi gold.
The cover art in Abba gold shows all the songs for Abba gold as well as the songs for Bon Jovi gold.
Only happens in cover flow mode but annoying.
Until someone fixes this, just change the name of one of the albums to say gold1 or Gold with a space or gold:Abba etc just change the name slightly.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Pairing Plantronic Headset510 To Base Unit 500a

Turn on the headset by pressing the little black button on top next to the volume up control. you may need to hold it down for 1 second a blue light should appear near the microphone if done correctly.
Place the unit into pairing mode by holding down the volume up & the talk button ( near the microphone) until you see it flash red & blue then let go.
while flashing red & blue place back into the charge bay. when it is seated properly you should see the charge yellow led com on. Then hold down the volume up & down buttons on the back of the base unit until the blue light on top of the base unit goes solid blue this may take some time bu don't let go. once it goes solid blue take the unit out of the base station cradle and press the talk button. Away you go all connected.
Some manuals have failed to place all the information when pairing especially if you are repairing the unit from a previous pair.