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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: ajmoir36 on 14 October 2012, 21:41
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Has anyone else noticed that if when using a Windows Media Playlist (WPL) on an external SD or USB driver that if the song name has an apostraphe (') or an ampersand (&) in it the RCD510 won't play the song, if its included in the playlist. I found out the reason and on inspection of the WPL (its man readable) Windows media player replaces the ' or & with the text ' or &.
Obviously being a bit of a geek I replaced the ' or & with an ' or & and hey presto it works. Then my geekness got the better of me and I wrote a C# app to do it (lazy me) point it at the file and it creates a new one fixed slighty different name (preserving the old one). p.s. the new file cannot be loaded into Windows Media Player either. :whistle:
So if it used to state
<media src="..\B\Biffy Clyro\Only Revolutions\09 Boooom, Blast & Ruin.mp3"/>
it now states
<media src="..\B\Biffy Clyro\Only Revolutions\09 Boooom, Blast & Ruin.mp3"/>
I hope this is useful to someone, thats why I thought I would share. :smiley:
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That makes no sense at to me :embarrassed: but I have found at times when ripping cds using Windows media player, it doesn't transfer the data for track listings etc. In some cases it would produce track titles for a completely random album??? I thought it may be some sort of security on the cd, but when copying it using itunes, it all worked properly. :undecided:
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Humm maybe theres another way to explain
Music on computer in folders. (A albums in A folder, B albums in B folder e.t.c.)
Add music to windows media player library.
Songs or ablums on computer has an apostraphe(') or ampersand(&) in its actual file name.
Create windows media playlist of favourite songs.
All albums in A and B folder for instance.
Save play list into Playlists folder in the same place as the music
i.e.
C:\A\Adele\track 1mp3
C:\A\Adele\track 2 & crazy.mp3
C:\Playlists\My favourites.wpl
Copy all of those files to a USB drive.
Insert into car, select the playlist called "My favourites.WPL".
All songs play apart from "track 2 & crazy.mp3"
I wonder why that is????
Looking inside the WPL file using notepad in windows it would seem that windows media player called it
<media src="..\A\Adele\track2 & crazy.mp3"/>
If you then modify it to
<media src="..\A\Adele\track2 & crazy.mp3"/>
It works wooo hooo.
I hope that makes more sense.
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Yup, I noticed this a while back when creating playlist's, I had to open the created file from the USB stick, delete/replace the character with the original and it all worked fine.
Common standards.... You gotta love em eh? :rolleyes: