Re: Song Title improperly displayed for Internet Radio

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From: zachd [ms] (zachd_at_nomailplz.online.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:21:09 -0700

There's a KB article on this - WMP doesn't show song titles during playback
of remote streams. This is intentional. The KB article covers this.

-Zach 

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"salvatore" <salvatore@nospampalmisanonet.com> wrote in message 
news:O4oR6m0aEHA.3352@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Randy Brown wrote:
>> I tried posting this on the Beta newsgroup, but it appears that messages 
>> are not appearing there. However, this issue happens in both WMP9 and 
>> WMP10.
>>
>> It would be nice if you guys could fix the display problems with not 
>> showing Current Song/Title for Internet Radio streams. Here are URLs for 
>> two locations that you navigate to see this problem:
>>
>> http://radio.livephish.com:8000/
>> http://nugs.net/vault/scifi_radio.m3u
>>
>> Other products like Winamp and Real Player properly show the Current Song 
>> title during play. WMP only shows the Stream Name. It would nice to see 
>> this information. BTW, Winamp allows you to configure display.
>>
>> Thanks....Randy
>>
>
> Im having this exact problem with WMP10 on XPPro SP2.  Is this a setting 
> in WMP?  Or something not yet implemented?
>
>
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