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Question

WMP seems to have lost all my Flac tags?

Jan 10, 2012 3:27AM PST

So i have a massive Flac library. and i have WMP tag plus plugin installed.

All my music files are on their own seperate hard drive (FHappy. Originally i had just put the seperate folders for each artist directly on the root of F.

(F:\artist folder)

this worked for a while and then somewhere down the line i had to make another folder on the root of F: and then replace all artist folders inside that. (to clean up some sharing issues i believe)

(F:\Music\artist folder).

This also worked fine for tags. for a while.

I had shared the root drive originally, and also shared the F:\Music folder as well. after i had created the F:\Music folder and shared that, i UN shared the actual drive.

Now, this was STILL fine for a couple of days. I had a fully shared library with songs correctly tagged with album art.

But today i turned on WMP and went to wirelessly play music over my home network to my xbox. (using the xbox menus to acces the music on my comuter.)

While music was playing through my xbox i sat at the computer to look at my library only to see if i could "play to" the xbox from my computers WMP. as it turns out i couldnt but i also couldnt "play to" my laptop... which has always been possible because i do it all the time. (it was on and available.)

Just i noticed this, my artist library on my computer started to collapse into an "unknown artist" folder.

I literally watched this happen. all my album art just fell off the screen and now not one song has any tags. everything is under "unknown artist" - "unknown album". ive been fiddling with my computer for an hour now i cant see the problem. I have noticed that the .flac files on my computer now have a different icon representing them... and i dont know why that is either.

So i guess my question is, why no more tags?

its literally a never ending battle to be able to play my music with WMP, but its almost a must to be able to play everything wirelessly throughout my house. I Dont understand why microsoft cant get this to work.

I hope i explained myself clearly enough. thanks for the help.

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Answer
As this is some addon, my guess is just that.
Jan 10, 2012 3:36AM PST
http://bmproductions.fixnum.org/index.htm?http://bmproductions.fixnum.org/wmptagplus/

I see they have some IRC and more for support.

If this is like many other add ons, as security patches come down such things either break or require we remove and reinstall or contact the author of the add on.

I would be guessing what this add on does or handles when it gets over so many files or encounters some trash in some field. I've seen that and never can fix it because the code of the add on is usually not published.
Bob
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thanks Bob.
Jan 10, 2012 3:40AM PST

i have sent them an email also, however they do not reply as promplty as here. hopefully they will reply soon.

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IRC is faster than here!
Jan 10, 2012 3:44AM PST

"As an alternative for contacting us through
e-mail, you can also join our IRC channel to have a chat with us. This is especially
recommended if you are familiar with IRC and you want to get a
quick response. The channel is available for any discussion
related to BM-productions, such as support for our programs,
feature requests, general comments about this website etc.
BM-productions IRC channel: #bmproductions at
DALnet (direct link)
If there's nobody in the channel to answer
your question, you can just wait until an operator comes online.
The most chance of an operator being online is in the evening
hours (Central European Time), but there can be an operator
online at any other time as well."

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haha yeah...
Jan 10, 2012 3:50AM PST

ive been on the internet for years and not once have i used IRC. not that i know of anyway. i tried to figure it out once but failed. ill look into it later i guess if i really have to.

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just figured it out.
Jan 10, 2012 3:54AM PST

the IRC i mean... no i dea why i couldnt do it before. :L