Maybe your devices require album art of 175x175. Microsoft continues to
provide compatibility with devices who require miniscule album art and I am
sure they'll restrict the album art for all WMP users to 175x175 if this is
the case. Compatibility with older devices is the single most important
issue with the Windows Media Player product team other than simplification
of the user interface.

What's that, you say? Your device doesn't care about album art and
especially its size? I must be mistaken then. Compatibility with older
devices must not really matter one single twit to the Microsoft Windows
Media Player product team. I must have been misled.

Dale


"garcin lazare" <noname@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:O90Y99COHHA.780@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> dantel wrote:
>> I have a bunch of computers; MCE, XP Home, XP Pro, Macintosh, a NAS
>> running a UpnP server, a UPnP audio device, a Viiv server, etc. and
>> have some questions:
>>
>> Seems like I am reading that WMP 11 replaced WMC, is this really UPnP
>> compliant? a guy at the MS boot at CES seemed to indicate yes but was
>> sketchy on details and had many caveots.
>>
>> Should WMP 11 see my Viiv server?
>>
>> Can WMP be both a client AND server on XP? I was told yes on Vista
>> but got puzzled look when asking about on XP.
>> - Can I share media from one XP machine and go to another XP machine
>> both running WMP 11 and see the shared content in the "client" WMP?
>> there does not seem to be any menu for browsing to see other
>> computers or things such as Viiv server or a NAS running UPnP.
>> Do the new hardware devices from companies like D-Link & Netgear see
>> the shared
>> items from WMP 11? nobody at CES was really clear about that.
>> Any software available that uses a "remote control" TV like interface
>> that will see WMP or UPnP "served" content? I picked up a demo copy
>> of the new version of Nero and it has a nice interface but it is a
>> little funky when accessing content over the network - it needs to
>> "collect" media or run something called Nero Scout which I have not
>> figured out yet.
>>
>> So many cool products that don't work cool together quite yet!
>> I wish there was a Media User Group in the Chicago area!!
>
> WMP11 seems to have broken upnp media sharing, which used to work with
> WMP10 and Windows Media Connect 2. Moreover, other Windows based media
> servers have stopped working. I have an Acer 3705 MGW TV with a built in
> media gateway which is now useless. I tried to revert to WMP10 and WMC2,
> but it did not work. I tried to diagnose with Cidero Media Controller,
> looks like WMP does not authorise my devices, despite a correct
> configuration. I tested with no firewalls, and my router supports upnp.
>
> That's one of the most dirty MS update I have experienced, these guys have
> no sense of QA, they dump half baked updates and let us debug. They should
> open a web site where we could bill them for our wasted time !
>
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