Re: 'Corrupt' WMP Metadata files
- From: "Dale" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:31:19 -0600
It is absolutely in context and it is verbatim what you said. You just never will say you were wrong, that you shouldn't have said what you said, that your customers' efforts in creating their databases, and the data in those databases have great intrinsic value and that you spoke without thinking. You should try it, Zach. Try admitting you were wrong and quit attacking the messenger.
The problem is, Zach, you spew that garbage all the time, making technical statements that you cannot backup and support in the hopes of turning away all complaints about the quality of the product you helped to create. If you cannot stop the complaints with logic or with your illogical arguments, you attack the messenger. Not just me, others as well.
If no one ever called you on the things you say, your customers would just read what you say and shake their head, wondering why they just can't understand what you're saying but assuming it is their own lack of technical understanding. So they just go away.
Count the number of threads where the original poster marked the thread as answered since December 1st. I am not saying mine will be higher than yours (though it could be) but that it will be at least close to yours. Sure, you can be more helpful. You have access to all kinds of inside information that is not published but should have been published. You're able to answer questions that no person in the world other than your team could answer - not even product support. So what? I'm not in competition with you to answer more questions; I am here because I like helping others. Telling them the truth, even truths you don't want them to hear, is often as helpful as anyone can be.
And you are the one who keeps bringing your role in Microsoft into the picture. Like stating that nothing in the readme file would be in it without your personal approval. Or bringing in the first names of all the team leaders for every question which you can't answer but want to say what a wonderful guy the team lead is. You keep speaking about and for Microsoft and then try to keep anyone from challenging what you say by throwing out your statement about speaking for yourself.
Rather than me not reading what you say, why don't you just not read what I say. You have come behind me this week dozens of times, even challenging my posts from several days previous. It seems as if you're searching by my name and looking for anywhere you may have to respond to the things I have said. If the things I say were really wrong, the community would reject what I say and they don't need your help. I get a lot more agreement from your customers than I get disagreement. And you do more damage to Microsoft by trying to defend things that are wrong or by attacking the messenger. The best way to quiet discontent that is not supported by the environment is to ignore it. But you don't ignore it because you know it is true and you really don't want your customers to realize the things I say are true.
The best thing you could do with discontentment would be to sit quietly and lurk and take note of the things customers are talking about and what things make them unhappy with your product. You don't have to respond at all. And you don't even have to fix anything. But the smart thing would be to take note and to consider your customers' reactions to the flaws in this version when you begin to design the next version.
Dale
"zachd [MSFT]" <zachd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23QWg9V5YHHA.4940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
If you could stop quoting me out of context, I'd appreciate it. I'm not Microsoft and I don't speak for them, so the below (making an attribution to the WMP team of some offhand comment of mine) is kinda dishonest.
Here's a though: don't read what I say. It's not written for you. I'm trying to help people here. Regardless of your 'goals', I'm in a position to do a lot more good than you are, so ... yeah, stop being random.
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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.
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"Dale" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OgFhMt0YHHA.3656@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxIt is the feeling of the Windows Media Product team that the metadata in your library has no intrinsic value. Therefore, instead of providing a reliable, supported, recoverable database format, they provide what you have now.
[QUOTE from Zach]The team pays tight attention to this kind of thing. It's a fascinating[ENE QUOTE from Zach]
problem - dead libraries are typically non-recoverable and since they're
reflective in nature (not containing any reallly intrinsic value), there's
not much call to get them rolling again.
I suggest rebuilding your library following Zach's own instructions at http://www.zachd.com/pss/pss.html#medialibrary. Of course, when you do so all of that no value data that you have manually entered or collected from years of using your library will be lost.
Dale
"Dorsai" <MJGrimley@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:O0VzxJzYHHA.5044@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxI have WMP 11 installed on a computer with several thousand music files. It seems that the metadata files are getting corrupt. i.e. The 'Album Artist' and 'Composer' fields are randomly (or so it seems) changed to some other artist/composer that I have in my library. (e.g. Currently, 'Carl Perkins' is listed as the album artist for The Decemberists-The Crane Wife, as well as the composer of several of the songs.)
I know the information was correct when the songs were ripped from my CDs.
Any ideas?
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