MediaMonkey for Windows 8 Metro App

[rovingcowboy]

That's me thinking of the not normal things again sometimes i get them right sometimes wrong, lets hope its a right one this time.

[napoca]

Hello,

I'd like to thank you for this wonderful app, it is one of the reason to purchase a tablet.

The app looks beautiful, however for me it doesn't work 100%. I know somebody mentioned already this, but I have the same issue with embedded artwork in flac files - the apps won't display them. The second thing not working is the ratings. Everything works fine in desktop version of MM but when I play the same files in Metro the artwork and ratings are not there.

Is something I might be doing wrong or is just the limitation of the app?

Thank you.

[Ricker101]

Was a nice try - but did not work. Only a hiss coming out of tablet speakers despite having desktop speakers plugged in.

Edit** I continued playing with the soundcard settings. When I bought the tablet, the first time I used a pair headsets was on my flight overseas. I used Bose Noise cancelling, and for whatever reason the default soundcard was "Speakers" by Qualcomm, upon using the Bose headsets, the default sound driver was changed to "Qualcomm 8x60"SoC Audio Adapter."

Anyway I went to the advanced properties of the default sound driver "Qualcomm 8x60"SoC Audio Adapter"and de-selected "Allow Hardware acceleration" (while allowing MM to continue to play the hiss in the back ground). Once I selected "Ok" - the Hiss went away and I am nowing listening to MM minus the dreaded HISS!

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction!

That's me thinking of the not normal things again sometimes i get them right sometimes wrong, lets hope its a right one this time.

[MiPi]

I've found some other bugs...
The Live-Tile and notifications don't seem to work when the played track has an embedded cover.
And genres from my .m4a tracks are not recognised and the app shows random genres for them.

Reading genres from m4a will be fixed in the second update (first update is already waiting for Microsoft approval). Thanks.
The first bug will hopefully be fixed by fixed album art reading.

[MiPi]

Anyway I went to the advanced properties of the default sound driver "Qualcomm 8x60"SoC Audio Adapter"and de-selected "Allow Hardware acceleration" (while allowing MM to continue to play the hiss in the back ground). Once I selected "Ok" - the Hiss went away and I am nowing listening to MM minus the dreaded HISS!

Great, thanks for the info. It seems, there is some bug in the sound driver, it works with MS Surface even with HW acceleration on (and should work).

[rovingcowboy]

Hello,

I'd like to thank you for this wonderful app, it is one of the reason to purchase a tablet.

The app looks beautiful, however for me it doesn't work 100%. I know somebody mentioned already this, but I have the same issue with embedded artwork in flac files - the apps won't display them. The second thing not working is the ratings. Everything works fine in desktop version of MM but when I play the same files in Metro the artwork and ratings are not there.

Is something I might be doing wrong or is just the limitation of the app?

Thank you.

buggy version of mm for metro yet still working on getting rid of those bugs.

[Ricker101]

Maybe there is some difference between the Surface and the XPS 10 tablet? I pulled the audio jack out, changed the default back to "speakers" and the hiss returned. I went into the advanced section of the "speaker" driver, unchecked HW acceleration, clicked OK and the hiss dis-appeared! There is something with the HW acceleration in my opinion

Either way I am LOVING the MM app!

Anyway I went to the advanced properties of the default sound driver "Qualcomm 8x60"SoC Audio Adapter"and de-selected "Allow Hardware acceleration" (while allowing MM to continue to play the hiss in the back ground). Once I selected "Ok" - the Hiss went away and I am nowing listening to MM minus the dreaded HISS!

Great, thanks for the info. It seems, there is some bug in the sound driver, it works with MS Surface even with HW acceleration on (and should work).

[rovingcowboy]

Maybe there is some difference between the Surface and the XPS 10 tablet? I pulled the audio jack out, changed the default back to "speakers" and the hiss returned. I went into the advanced section of the "speaker" driver, unchecked HW acceleration, clicked OK and the hiss dis-appeared! There is something with the HW acceleration in my opinion

Either way I am LOVING the MM app!

wouldn't surprise me any as Hw Ac use to cause some issues back in mm 3 on some op systems.

[Ricker101]

Maybe there is some difference between the Surface and the XPS 10 tablet? I pulled the audio jack out, changed the default back to "speakers" and the hiss returned. I went into the advanced section of the "speaker" driver, unchecked HW acceleration, clicked OK and the hiss dis-appeared! There is something with the HW acceleration in my opinion

Either way I am LOVING the MM app!

wouldn't surprise me any as Hw Ac use to cause some issues back in mm 3 on some op systems.

Thank you for pointing this out to me. I had not previously even considered an actual hardware issue!

[MiPi]

Maybe there is some difference between the Surface and the XPS 10 tablet? I pulled the audio jack out, changed the default back to "speakers" and the hiss returned. I went into the advanced section of the "speaker" driver, unchecked HW acceleration, clicked OK and the hiss dis-appeared! There is something with the HW acceleration in my opinion

Yes, a lot of differences, it has completely different hardware.

[rovingcowboy]

Maybe there is some difference between the Surface and the XPS 10 tablet? I pulled the audio jack out, changed the default back to "speakers" and the hiss returned. I went into the advanced section of the "speaker" driver, unchecked HW acceleration, clicked OK and the hiss dis-appeared! There is something with the HW acceleration in my opinion

Either way I am LOVING the MM app!

wouldn't surprise me any as Hw Ac use to cause some issues back in mm 3 on some op systems.

Thank you for pointing this out to me. I had not previously even considered an actual hardware issue!

you are welcome. i always blame windows for the errors more then mediamonkey. i use to blame mm all the time but about 7 yrs back you can find a issue of mine that took 15 pages to convice me it was windows fault. since then i lean more towards windows as the cause.

[Ricker101]

Maybe there is some difference between the Surface and the XPS 10 tablet? I pulled the audio jack out, changed the default back to "speakers" and the hiss returned. I went into the advanced section of the "speaker" driver, unchecked HW acceleration, clicked OK and the hiss dis-appeared! There is something with the HW acceleration in my opinion

Yes, a lot of differences, it has completely different hardware.

Sure does - from a performance standpoint the XPS blows the surface out of the water! With the keyboard/battery you can't beat 20 hours of battery life either.

Until I got this hiss fixed I was actually considering selling the damn thing and waiting for the Surface Pro to come out (But 3 hours battery life? Ouch!)

[rovingcowboy]

Maybe there is some difference between the Surface and the XPS 10 tablet? I pulled the audio jack out, changed the default back to "speakers" and the hiss returned. I went into the advanced section of the "speaker" driver, unchecked HW acceleration, clicked OK and the hiss dis-appeared! There is something with the HW acceleration in my opinion

Yes, a lot of differences, it has completely different hardware.

Sure does - from a performance standpoint the XPS blows the surface out of the water! With the keyboard/battery you can't beat 20 hours of battery life either.

Until I got this hiss fixed I was actually considering selling the damn thing and waiting for the Surface Pro to come out (But 3 hours battery life? Ouch!)

surface pro is out.

chris prillio is going to do an unboxing event he calls it when he opens the box for the first time and inspects it for viewers said he was going to do it at 12:00 noon Central Standard Time today..Time Changed to 6 and 7 PM . at his lockergnome youtube site. he does this stuff live and streams it here is the link to his youtube site.
it is all video's so you know what you need to view them. but check out the site i get a good picture here on 3g connection.
http://www.youtube.com/user/lockergnome/videos?view=0 Here are Direct Links http://youtu.be/ehipsgWm0eg at 6pm for the unboxing of Surface Pro. and at 7pm for the hands on review of surface pro http://youtu.be/39Tk1wVmx8c these links have a count down timer to the live event. if you miss it then use the first link to the video's because he will leave them up on that page for viewing after the event is over.

[napoca]

Hello,

I'd like to thank you for this wonderful app, it is one of the reason to purchase a tablet.

The app looks beautiful, however for me it doesn't work 100%. I know somebody mentioned already this, but I have the same issue with embedded artwork in flac files - the apps won't display them. The second thing not working is the ratings. Everything works fine in desktop version of MM but when I play the same files in Metro the artwork and ratings are not there.

Is something I might be doing wrong or is just the limitation of the app?

Thank you.

buggy version of mm for metro yet still working on getting rid of those bugs.

OK, I can't wait until next version and thanks for quick answer.

[MiPi]

OK, I can't wait until next version and thanks for quick answer.

Just please be patient, not all bugs will be fixed in the next release Next release should include fix of album art reading from MP3, reading artwork from FLAC will be probably in the subsequent release after, together with huge memory optimizations.