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Offline ajmoir36

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Windows Play Lists and RCD510
« on: 14 October 2012, 21:41 »
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 &amp; 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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Re: Windows Play Lists and RCD510
« Reply #1 on: 15 October 2012, 08:24 »
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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Re: Windows Play Lists and RCD510
« Reply #2 on: 15 October 2012, 18:31 »
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 &amp; 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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Re: Windows Play Lists and RCD510
« Reply #3 on: 16 October 2012, 09:34 »
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:
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