Artist Information in WMP11 under Vista

honey2008 · Post by **honey2008** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 4:15 pm

Hi!
WMP11 seems to work automatically great with Twonky UPNP AV, but WMP11 uses a "featuring artist"(ger:"mitwirkender interpret") information instead of the normal "artist" information, so the track-information is always unknown for artist, which sucks..
locally I found out that WMP11 seems to us the %band-mp3tag-variable, which Twonky doesn't serv, is there a posibility to let twonky do that?
Or how to fix WMP?

Thanks

DerPaul · Post by **DerPaul** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:15 pm

Same problem here. I am also desperately looking for a solution

TonyM · Post by **TonyM** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:43 am

I think you need to set the "Album Artist" tag in your media files.

DerPaul · Post by **DerPaul** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 5:30 pm

TonyM wrote:I think you need to set the "Album Artist" tag in your media files.

This tag is already set. When I add the files from the server's share to the WM11 library everything looks fine in WM11. But streaming from Twonky always says "unknown" to the contributing artist.

GregiBoy · Post by **GregiBoy** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 5:23 am

Use a decent Media Manager like MediaMonky to set your tags correctly instead of that Micro$oft POS....

DerPaul · Post by **DerPaul** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:52 am

GregiBoy wrote:Use a decent Media Manager like MediaMonky to set your tags correctly instead of that Micro$oft POS....

Well, I am using Mp3tag for all MP3 purposes. And all tags are set correctly (no probs using the files from my server's share)

Only when I try to stream the share using Twonky it becomes crappy. Maybe I should switch back to firefly where everything was fine. Unfortunately firefly has no upnp support...

honey2008 · Post by **honey2008** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:58 pm

Exactly the same

At least Firefly is free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

chucksel · Post by **chucksel** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:39 am

How do you get the music to STREAM (instead of copy) in WMP11? When I open http://serverip:9000/webbrowse and click a music file, it copies, opens and plays in WMP11 but where in WMP11 can I point to my TwonkeyMedia server and STREAM the music.

Sorry for being an ignorant Twonkey & WMP11 "newb"

Chucksel

honey2008 · Post by **honey2008** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:29 am

It only works under Vista and there you should find your Twonky under Network as WindowsMediaConnect

chucksel · Post by **chucksel** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:19 pm

I'm sorry I am such a "ditz" but under Options/Network in WMP11, what do I do?

honey2008 · Post by **honey2008** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:37 am

No, The Windows Vista Network Environment. Windows-Symbol in Taskbar -> Network