Re: WMP 11 'Recently Added' function...

Yes, it was a ridiculous suggestion in the first place to imply that you have to have Date Added showing on your library view columns for the feature to work. You do not. Nor do you have to have any other standard column showing for them to work. Obviously, non-standard columns such as Custom1 or Custom2 would have to be shown to work because it is only editable if it is showing. That behavior does not apply to Date Added.

There are a lot of things in WMP that are shown that are not generally useful. There are a lot of things that are either generally useful, very useful, or just plain necessary for a media player that are not available in Windows Media Player.

Date Added is populated for every track in my library even though I did not have Date Added displayed in my columns.

But just for the record, Recently Added appears to be working for me.

Dale

"OrsonJ" <OrsonJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:94BA5948-FD13-48EE-ABA4-59787BB40FAC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date added values for albums/tracks which should in theory be showing under
'Recently Added' are all accurate, so I guess that's one simple explanation
we can discount.
--
OrsonJ


"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


I can't reproduce this issue. "Recently added" is "Current Day - 30"
against the "Date Added" column in the library. (You have to turn that
explicitly on using Choose Columns, since it's not generally useful.)

What are the values of Recently Added for tracks that you want to show up,
versus the current date set on your PC?

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See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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"OrsonJ" <OrsonJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2E1BD5DF-34DD-4DDA-87DA-106A9653C66F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Returning to this thread after a few weeks, it would seem that many of > the
> experiences echo my own - the 'Recently Added' function suddenly > started
> to
> work (for no discernable reason) and today stopped working again (for > no
> discernable reason). It seems to have a mind of its own!
>
> Does the reporting of bugs like this via this forum get fed into the > WMP
> development programme? Or should one email them somewhere else? Given > the
> millions of pretty random 'error reports' that must be fired off to
> Microsoft
> daily, these very specific complaints must surely be useful?
>
> -- > OrsonJ
>
>
> "zachd [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>>
>> Something has *not* been done - this is all stuff that's on your local
>> system that the team would have no ability to update or fix randomly.
>> There
>> are four small updates available for WMP11 - search for "windows media
>> player 11" fix at http://support.microsoft.com , or it's linked at the
>> top
>> of my FAQ - but none of them should affect this.
>>
>> -- >> Speaking for myself only.
>> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights.
>> --
>>
>> "trehug" <trehug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:49D629E1-12E9-4B68-BF74-2FECFEF1F7DC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > in the interest of science and truth everywhere, i must report that >> > my
>> > "recently added" now appears to work again. i am going to monitor >> > it
>> > now,
>> > because i have a certain lack of confidence - but possibly this has
>> > been
>> > resolved?
>> >
>> > it would be nice to hear anykind of confirmation from the mp11 team
>> > that
>> > something has been done.
>> >
>> > thanks
>> >
>> > "trehug" wrote:
>> >
>> >> me too....sadly - it started working again after all those updates,
>> >> and
>> >> then
>> >> STOPPED again. very weird!
>> >>
>> >> any advice yet guys? thanks a lot/trev
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "Steve Swift" wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > > Me too.I just assumed that "recently" implied "within the last >> >> > > 10
>> >> > > seconds".
>> >> >
>> >> > My "Recently Added" just started working. I don't know if it was
>> >> > caused by:
>> >> >
>> >> > Something I did (accidentally). (I'm voting for this one)
>> >> >
>> >> > The 18 critical updates applied by Microsoft Update a couple of >> >> > days
>> >> > ago.
>> >> >
>> >> > Having a spread of dates upon which albums were added, so some >> >> > are
>> >> > noticeably newer than others (you need such a spread for the term
>> >> > "recent" to have much meaning)
>> >> >
>> >> > The direction of the wind.
>> >> >
>> >> > -- >> >> > Steve Swift
>> >> > http://www.ringers.org.uk
>> >> >
>>
>>
>>




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