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Libraries and Other Libraries greyed out in Media Player 12
A friend needs some help learning to rip CD's, so I'm to figure out
Media Player 12. I haven't ripped a CD since @2009, and I didn't use Media Player back then. For some reason, Library and Other Libraries are greyed out. Everything I've found on the web has failed to work. Seems to be a boatload of WMP 12 issues. What I've looked and and tried includes, but is not limited to: Removing and reinstalling Group policy settings Deleting and reinstalling the library I read a lot of articles that looked promising based on title, but part way through, you know it doesn't apply. Suggestions? Ideas? -- Ken Mac OS X 10.11.6 Firefox 53.0.2 (64 bit) Thunderbird 52.0 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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Libraries and Other Libraries greyed out in Media Player 12
Ken Springer wrote:
A friend needs some help learning to rip CD's, so I'm to figure out Media Player 12. I haven't ripped a CD since @2009, and I didn't use Media Player back then. For some reason, Library and Other Libraries are greyed out. Everything I've found on the web has failed to work. Seems to be a boatload of WMP 12 issues. What I've looked and and tried includes, but is not limited to: Removing and reinstalling Group policy settings Deleting and reinstalling the library I read a lot of articles that looked promising based on title, but part way through, you know it doesn't apply. Suggestions? Ideas? A company that loves DRM, and it has a rip CD button ? Who knew ? https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...e3f7d98?auth=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20091223...usic-from-a-CD I actually own two CDs and I haven't done that. Am I missing a lot of fun ? ******* For some reason, this comes to mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exact_Audio_Copy Paul |
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Libraries and Other Libraries greyed out in Media Player 12
On 2/19/18 3:51 PM, Paul wrote:
Ken Springer wrote: A friend needs some help learning to rip CD's, so I'm to figure out Media Player 12. I haven't ripped a CD since @2009, and I didn't use Media Player back then. For some reason, Library and Other Libraries are greyed out. Everything I've found on the web has failed to work. Seems to be a boatload of WMP 12 issues. What I've looked and and tried includes, but is not limited to: Removing and reinstalling Group policy settings Deleting and reinstalling the library I read a lot of articles that looked promising based on title, but part way through, you know it doesn't apply. Suggestions? Ideas? A company that loves DRM, and it has a rip CD button ? Who knew ? Yea, who knew?? LOL https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...e3f7d98?auth=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20091223...usic-from-a-CD Ripping is not the problem. Here's a screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jc44g4whqt...layer.JPG?dl=0 I've circled the items that should not be greyed out. At least, not as I understand Media Player. RipCD is greyed out in this screenshot, because I've already ripped the CD shown in the screenshot. Google Images has a lot of screenshots with the same thing, but you don't know how Media Player is set up. If you manage your library, you're using the normal Windows Music Library. I've ripped 3 CDs, and the music files are in the Music Library when I check via Windows Explorer. I actually own two CDs and I haven't done that. Am I missing a lot of fun ? Not in my eyes, you're not! LOL snip -- Ken Mac OS X 10.11.6 Firefox 53.0.2 (64 bit) Thunderbird 52.0 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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Libraries and Other Libraries greyed out in Media Player 12
Ken Springer wrote:
Ripping is not the problem. Here's a screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jc44g4whqt...layer.JPG?dl=0 I've circled the items that should not be greyed out. At least, not as I understand Media Player. RipCD is greyed out in this screenshot, because I've already ripped the CD shown in the screenshot. Google Images has a lot of screenshots with the same thing, but you don't know how Media Player is set up. If you manage your library, you're using the normal Windows Music Library. I've ripped 3 CDs, and the music files are in the Music Library when I check via Windows Explorer. If I right-click on the greyed out ones, I get a Customize Navigation box, with a selector at the top. The two greyed out ones are in the selector. The comment text in the dialog refers to Network Libraries which suggests HomeGroups to me. Since I don't have HomeGroups enabled here, my "Other Libraries" must stay greyed out, at a guess. https://s14.postimg.org/vs4mo3lvl/Cu...Navigation.gif To test that safely, I'd have to create an isolated virtual network inside VirtualBox. When I tested that, it had no DHCP or DNS or anything else, so I had to stop. I'm not "reinventing networks", just to run simple test cases :-) I'm too lazy for that. It would have been really neat if that isolated network was complete. Paul |
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Libraries and Other Libraries greyed out in Media Player 12
On 2/19/18 6:48 PM, Paul wrote:
Ken Springer wrote: Ripping is not the problem. Here's a screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jc44g4whqt...layer.JPG?dl=0 I've circled the items that should not be greyed out. At least, not as I understand Media Player. RipCD is greyed out in this screenshot, because I've already ripped the CD shown in the screenshot. Google Images has a lot of screenshots with the same thing, but you don't know how Media Player is set up. If you manage your library, you're using the normal Windows Music Library. I've ripped 3 CDs, and the music files are in the Music Library when I check via Windows Explorer. If I right-click on the greyed out ones, I get a Customize Navigation box, with a selector at the top. The two greyed out ones are in the selector. The comment text in the dialog refers to Network Libraries which suggests HomeGroups to me. Since I don't have HomeGroups enabled here, my "Other Libraries" must stay greyed out, at a guess. https://s14.postimg.org/vs4mo3lvl/Cu...Navigation.gif No Homegroups at this end. Got a Mac, XP, and Vista on the network. Never have gotten XP, Vista, and 7 to successfully connect to the Mac. OTOH, the Mac connects to everything. I still want to connect Linux Mint, just haven't had the time. It doesn't matter which entry in the navigation pane you right click on, the same customize window opens. And selecting an entry just causes it to appear in the navigation pane. I do believe you are correct, Other Libraries refers to network locations. So, doing a quick test... Fired up W10, and it's connected to W7. The W10 Music folder is shared. Other Libraries is still greyed out. Using Manage Libraries from the menu, I added the W10 Music folder to the Library folder, no difference. To test that safely, I'd have to create an isolated virtual network inside VirtualBox. When I tested that, it had no DHCP or DNS or anything else, so I had to stop. I'm not "reinventing networks", just to run simple test cases :-) I'm too lazy for that. It would have been really neat if that isolated network was complete. If you come up with something you'd like me to try, I'm willing. I'd like an answer to this, even if I'll never use Media Player. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.11.6 Firefox 53.0.2 (64 bit) Thunderbird 52.0 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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Libraries and Other Libraries greyed out in Media Player 12
Ken Springer wrote:
On 2/19/18 6:48 PM, Paul wrote: Ken Springer wrote: Ripping is not the problem. Here's a screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jc44g4whqt...layer.JPG?dl=0 I've circled the items that should not be greyed out. At least, not as I understand Media Player. RipCD is greyed out in this screenshot, because I've already ripped the CD shown in the screenshot. Google Images has a lot of screenshots with the same thing, but you don't know how Media Player is set up. If you manage your library, you're using the normal Windows Music Library. I've ripped 3 CDs, and the music files are in the Music Library when I check via Windows Explorer. If I right-click on the greyed out ones, I get a Customize Navigation box, with a selector at the top. The two greyed out ones are in the selector. The comment text in the dialog refers to Network Libraries which suggests HomeGroups to me. Since I don't have HomeGroups enabled here, my "Other Libraries" must stay greyed out, at a guess. https://s14.postimg.org/vs4mo3lvl/Cu...Navigation.gif No Homegroups at this end. Got a Mac, XP, and Vista on the network. Never have gotten XP, Vista, and 7 to successfully connect to the Mac. OTOH, the Mac connects to everything. I still want to connect Linux Mint, just haven't had the time. It doesn't matter which entry in the navigation pane you right click on, the same customize window opens. And selecting an entry just causes it to appear in the navigation pane. I do believe you are correct, Other Libraries refers to network locations. So, doing a quick test... Fired up W10, and it's connected to W7. The W10 Music folder is shared. Other Libraries is still greyed out. Using Manage Libraries from the menu, I added the W10 Music folder to the Library folder, no difference. To test that safely, I'd have to create an isolated virtual network inside VirtualBox. When I tested that, it had no DHCP or DNS or anything else, so I had to stop. I'm not "reinventing networks", just to run simple test cases :-) I'm too lazy for that. It would have been really neat if that isolated network was complete. If you come up with something you'd like me to try, I'm willing. I'd like an answer to this, even if I'll never use Media Player. You could create a Home Group and test that out. https://www.windowscentral.com/how-s...-local-network (I guess I'm just not a Home Group Evangelist - I'm not really convinced there's an upside to playing with it... I'm a file sharing guy. But at least that stuff has libraries as part of it.) Paul |
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Libraries and Other Libraries greyed out in Media Player 12
On 2/20/18 12:44 AM, Paul wrote:
Ken Springer wrote: On 2/19/18 6:48 PM, Paul wrote: Ken Springer wrote: Ripping is not the problem. Here's a screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jc44g4whqt...layer.JPG?dl=0 I've circled the items that should not be greyed out. At least, not as I understand Media Player. RipCD is greyed out in this screenshot, because I've already ripped the CD shown in the screenshot. Google Images has a lot of screenshots with the same thing, but you don't know how Media Player is set up. If you manage your library, you're using the normal Windows Music Library. I've ripped 3 CDs, and the music files are in the Music Library when I check via Windows Explorer. If I right-click on the greyed out ones, I get a Customize Navigation box, with a selector at the top. The two greyed out ones are in the selector. The comment text in the dialog refers to Network Libraries which suggests HomeGroups to me. Since I don't have HomeGroups enabled here, my "Other Libraries" must stay greyed out, at a guess. https://s14.postimg.org/vs4mo3lvl/Cu...Navigation.gif No Homegroups at this end. Got a Mac, XP, and Vista on the network. Never have gotten XP, Vista, and 7 to successfully connect to the Mac. OTOH, the Mac connects to everything. I still want to connect Linux Mint, just haven't had the time. It doesn't matter which entry in the navigation pane you right click on, the same customize window opens. And selecting an entry just causes it to appear in the navigation pane. I do believe you are correct, Other Libraries refers to network locations. So, doing a quick test... Fired up W10, and it's connected to W7. The W10 Music folder is shared. Other Libraries is still greyed out. Using Manage Libraries from the menu, I added the W10 Music folder to the Library folder, no difference. To test that safely, I'd have to create an isolated virtual network inside VirtualBox. When I tested that, it had no DHCP or DNS or anything else, so I had to stop. I'm not "reinventing networks", just to run simple test cases :-) I'm too lazy for that. It would have been really neat if that isolated network was complete. If you come up with something you'd like me to try, I'm willing. I'd like an answer to this, even if I'll never use Media Player. You could create a Home Group and test that out. https://www.windowscentral.com/how-s...-local-network (I guess I'm just not a Home Group Evangelist - I'm not really convinced there's an upside to playing with it... I'm a file sharing guy. But at least that stuff has libraries as part of it.) If you are the average, unknowing user, and have a need/desire to having your W7, 8.1 & 10 computers networked, Homegroup seems to work very well. My first experience with it was when W7 first came out, and I networked my inlaws computers. Worked like a charm. What I don't like about it is, the idea creates a public folder on each system, visible to all systems in the Homegroup. To share a file, you put it in the public folder. I immediately spotted the poor planning here, where the originating user could end up with 2 or more copies of the same file on their computer, as well as destroying any decent attempt at hard drive organization. That's not what I want, so like you, I do file sharing, workgroup, ET. AL. Even that doesn't seem to work all that well with differing Windows OSes. As for greyed out Library and Other Libraries, I would like to thank Microsoft for allowing me to lead us down an Effing rabbit hole. They are nothing but "group names", rather like the group names you can have in the W10 Start Menu. And they will always be greyed out. MS's incessant removal of visual cues as to organization, poor documentation, and probably some assumption that "people already know", probably prompted this thread. There may also be issues with networking W7 with other OSes, even Windows. I realized what was going on last night when I thought I'd see how things work in W10, after your comment about Other Libraries might represent libraries on networked computers. When I added my W7 music library to the W10 install, it displayed in Other Libraries! Other Libraries remained greyed out. But, the W10 music library never displayed in W7. Media player 12 in both places. This morning, I got a W7 laptop from the back room, connected to the network, and exactly the same display issue. The visual cue I was referring to is the connecting lines you could/would see in Window Explorer in XP and earlier. If those were connecting lines were still being used, this is what your would see in the navigation pane, assuming everything worked correctly: Library | |--Playlists |--Music | | | |-- Artist | |--Album | |--Genre |--Videos |--Pictures |--Recorded TV |--Other Media | Other Libraries | |--Networked Computer 1 | | | |--Music | |--Videos | |--Pictures | |--Recorded TV | |--Networked Computer 2 The exact display will depend on the settings you make in configuring the navigation pane. In this instance, I'm not sure what has to be shared. One thing I found interesting, I've moved my user file storage from the boot drive to a different drive. Everything is shared on the "different" drive. Except... The users folder there was shared, but not all subfolders were shared. For why, I don't know. And, by golly, it works. At least in W10. In W10, I was playing one of my experimental rips that reside on W7. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.11.6 Firefox 53.0.2 (64 bit) Thunderbird 52.0 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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Libraries and Other Libraries greyed out in Media Player 12
Paul news
Feb 2018 22:51:52 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:
Ken Springer wrote: A friend needs some help learning to rip CD's, so I'm to figure out Media Player 12. I haven't ripped a CD since @2009, and I didn't use Media Player back then. For some reason, Library and Other Libraries are greyed out. Everything I've found on the web has failed to work. Seems to be a boatload of WMP 12 issues. What I've looked and and tried includes, but is not limited to: Removing and reinstalling Group policy settings Deleting and reinstalling the library I read a lot of articles that looked promising based on title, but part way through, you know it doesn't apply. Suggestions? Ideas? A company that loves DRM, and it has a rip CD button ? Who knew ? It's a rather ****ty program for ripping cds, though. https://web.archive.org/web/20091223...dows.microsoft .com/en-US/windows7/Rip-music-from-a-CD I actually own two CDs and I haven't done that. Am I missing a lot of fun ? In your case, probably not. In my case, I've had a blast ripping my music and converting it to portable friendly formats. I can take it with me, don't have to worry about scratching a disc and/or someone getting a case of sticky fingers. Since my collection is well preserved on the network, I can rock out anywhere in the house, or, as I said, take music with me. No need to stream, run my cell battery down, etc, while doing so, either. For some reason, this comes to mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exact_Audio_Copy It's the bomb. Atleast the older versions were. They'd rip some so called 'copy protected' cds that were actually multi session and/or multi session with some erroneous information designed to mess with the optical drive in a computer, but thanks to the really dumb nature of a standard optical drive in your cd player; appear to be totally fine. I also found it amusing that some of these copy protected audio cds made life hell for mac users upon insertion. Not by succesfully installing any code, but by essentially locking up the optical drive and the OS along with it; requiring the cd to be removed via a teardown. I'm sure apple has by now corrected that hilarious method of mac misfortune. rofl. Just think of the money some mac lovers could have saved had apple thought there was a need for a physical eject override. Like you'd find on nearly any pc with an optical drive. An override that responded to say something as simple as a paperclip....LOL -- To prevent yourself from being a victim of cyber stalking, it's highly recommended you visit he https://tekrider.net/pages/david-brooks-stalker.php ================================================== = Bored? Browse the 386spart.par |
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On 2/20/18 9:17 PM, Diesel wrote:
I also found it amusing that some of these copy protected audio cds made life hell for mac users upon insertion. Not by succesfully installing any code, but by essentially locking up the optical drive and the OS along with it; requiring the cd to be removed via a teardown. I'm sure apple has by now corrected that hilarious method of mac misfortune. rofl. Just think of the money some mac lovers could have saved had apple thought there was a need for a physical eject override. Like you'd find on nearly any pc with an optical drive. HI, Diesel, I've had this happen with some DVD's. But, the disk can be ejected during bootup. FWIW, some Dell laptops used the same optical drives. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.11.6 Firefox 53.0.2 (64 bit) Thunderbird 52.0 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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Libraries and Other Libraries greyed out in Media Player 12
Ken Springer news6ka7v$n82$1
@news.albasani.net Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:28:30 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote: On 2/20/18 9:17 PM, Diesel wrote: I also found it amusing that some of these copy protected audio cds made life hell for mac users upon insertion. Not by succesfully installing any code, but by essentially locking up the optical drive and the OS along with it; requiring the cd to be removed via a teardown. I'm sure apple has by now corrected that hilarious method of mac misfortune. rofl. Just think of the money some mac lovers could have saved had apple thought there was a need for a physical eject override. Like you'd find on nearly any pc with an optical drive. HI, Diesel, I've had this happen with some DVD's. But, the disk can be ejected during bootup. I didn't know some DVDs could essentially duplicate the effect. Good to know you can eject it during bootup though. It's been a very long time, but, I don't think you could eject one of these special audio cds during bootup...I've no idea if it was mac version specific though? FWIW, some Dell laptops used the same optical drives. Yep. But, you aren't going to lock the entire machine up just by inserting one of those discs. Well, in most cases. Depends on what the multi session has in mind for the Dell and if autorun is enabled. -- To prevent yourself from being a victim of cyber stalking, it's highly recommended you visit he https://tekrider.net/pages/david-brooks-stalker.php ================================================== = Bored? Browse the 386spart.par |
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Libraries and Other Libraries greyed out in Media Player 12
On 2/24/18 2:06 PM, Diesel wrote:
Ken Springer news6ka7v$n82$1 @news.albasani.net Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:28:30 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote: On 2/20/18 9:17 PM, Diesel wrote: I also found it amusing that some of these copy protected audio cds made life hell for mac users upon insertion. Not by succesfully installing any code, but by essentially locking up the optical drive and the OS along with it; requiring the cd to be removed via a teardown. I'm sure apple has by now corrected that hilarious method of mac misfortune. rofl. Just think of the money some mac lovers could have saved had apple thought there was a need for a physical eject override. Like you'd find on nearly any pc with an optical drive. HI, Diesel, I've had this happen with some DVD's. But, the disk can be ejected during bootup. I didn't know some DVDs could essentially duplicate the effect. Good to know you can eject it during bootup though. It's been a very long time, but, I don't think you could eject one of these special audio cds during bootup...I've no idea if it was mac version specific though? I have no idea either. FWIW, some Dell laptops used the same optical drives. Yep. But, you aren't going to lock the entire machine up just by inserting one of those discs. Well, in most cases. Depends on what the multi session has in mind for the Dell and if autorun is enabled. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.11.6 Firefox 53.0.2 (64 bit) Thunderbird 52.0 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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