Windows XP - NTFS Support?

millec · 03-02-2003, 05:43 PM

Does Media Engine work OK with Windows XP and NTFS?

My music is stored under c:\mp3\<artist>\<album>\*.mp3

I can browse all directories, but the song names are garbled. I am getting nonsense file descriptions. The songs play OK though.

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks,
--Craig

themurph1018 · 03-02-2003, 06:53 PM

Do you get song names like aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaaaaaaa or uuuuuuuuuuu-uuuuuuuuuu? Cause I get those too. I think it happens because there is no ID3V2 tag. Some other songs I get show up in symbols such as the wingdings font. Maybe someone has a fix for this?

Thanks

millec · 03-02-2003, 10:44 PM

Yep. That is what I get too.

So, I guess if I had up to date tags, then the program would be able to resolve the artist/name. But since I do not, it fails at reading long file names from NTFS?

--Craig

GuRuGoD · 03-03-2003, 12:17 AM

I'm not so sure. I have all ID3v2 tags in order and am still getting all a's or U's..

MP3DUB · 03-03-2003, 11:05 AM

Altho does it read ID3v1 or ID3v2 tags? If you have ID3v2 and it only reads v1, that would be the problem.

millec · 03-03-2003, 12:35 PM

From the comments in the source code it supports version 1.

--Craig

GuRuGoD · 03-03-2003, 02:04 PM

I will check again, but it they should have v1 and v2 straight

hijinks21 · 03-03-2003, 02:20 PM

i have xp with ntfs and everything works great. I have seen some messd up files but those weren't mp3's.

MP3DUB · 03-03-2003, 02:33 PM

Also, my carpc is XP Pro with NTFS, and the wee bit that I've played with Media Engine, its worked properly (and all the mp3s have v1 and v2 tags).

themurph1018 · 03-03-2003, 03:23 PM

That could be my problem. I dont think I have ID3v1 tags. Ill just use one of those fancy id3 tag editors.

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