RE: Inappropriate Tags

From: Igor (noneofyourbusiness_at_wherever.com)
Date: 01/29/05


Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 07:37:02 -0800

Addition:
the Genre cannot be personalized.
for me that means the tag is useless, at best.

"Igor" wrote:

> The tag options are too rigid!
> - I set 1000 languages, but an option "instrumental" or even simply "none"
> is not available!
> - If I type some self chosen caption, Media Player will erase it randomly.
> (example: "instrumental" as language tag)
> - Why must "English" appear as "en"? I want the freedom to display the way
> that suits me, not microsoft. I don't speak 'en', but English.
> These are only some of the issues.
>
> By the way, why are there a thousand languages given, of whom many are not
> even really existing! This may not be obvious for American users, but really:
> Belgian Dutch, Canadian English and Moldavian Romanian are NOT languages. To
> include a language as "Moldavian Russian" is even a gross insult to all
> Moldavians.
> Perhaps Microdsoft thinks it has become too popular?
>
> Finally: nevertheless Windows Media Player gave me enough reasons to swith
> from Winamp.



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