ERROR when playing protected WMA files in Hoster

[S. Parks]

That all sounds fine, but why is it then that some files out of the same directory will play, and others will not?

[Wayne White]

The period was assigned to the name by windows & it is not a problem. Songs with short song names, a short artist name & a short album name do play in the original directory. I agree there may be some characters that do cause a problem with specific songs, but, as S Parks indicates, if the period in the filename was a problem, none of my songs would play.

Windows Media Player & Mix Meister both find every song on my hard drive so any limitation that is not built into Hoster has to be from within the Windows dialog box being used for the lookup. I moved my entire directory (very simply in less than 5 minutes) to My Music (Under the Root Drive). This eliminated 4 sub-directory's. Once you get through the Folders for Artist Name & Album Name, the Track #, Artist Name & Album Name are also appended to the Song Title. This is also how they show up in Explorer. You've Made Me So Very Happy is still 157 characters long and still won't play.. When I shorten the Name to just the Song Title, it plays.

Wayne

[Wayne White]

OK, so I have too much time on my hands....

I moved a song into 1 Folder on the root directory of C: (It happended to be You've Made Me So Very Happy). First I took out the ' , & (any abnormal characters) the song still wouldn't play (with the LONG Name). I kept taking out characters until it played. What I found is, IN A FOLDER a total of 119 characters will play. 120 won't. With a file name of 64 & a song name of 55, OK. Increase either by 1 & it will still play IF you reduce the other by 1. If you put a song flat on the C drive (No Folder - which I would never recommend), 121 characters will play 122 won't.

Wayne

[tgrace007]

Hi All,

I was having the same problem with WMA's that were in the "My Music " Folder, and the problem was like was stated earlier, too many subs. The key is to shorten the names remove any "outlaw" characters, and I just created a WMA songs folder in Hoster's main folderto keep them separate, but you can put them in the songs folder also. Here's what I did:

used Search to find hoster, then opened to see the songs folder
opened my music folder, and shortened or renamed songs
clicked on the songs I wanted to move, and dragged them to the hoster SONGS folder ( You could also right-click the song, click copy, then right click on th SONGS folder and paste the ones you want, and you would have them still available in My Music as well as hoster SONGS folder.

Thanks for finding the problem guys!! It was driving me batty for a while!!!

Happy Hostering,
Tom