I am a purist when it comes to my music library. I stuck with MCE 2005 in hopes that Windows 7 would bring some improvements to library management. Recently I upgraded to Windows 7. I just tried adding my archived Christmas Music to Windows Media Player(which looked great in MCE 2005 with all tags, artwork, albums and artists organized an displaying properly) and things got really interesting. Even though I told WMP 12 not to update tags or artwork, it did so anyway.
I also find it very interesting that there are multiple ways to add music to Windows Media Center:
1. Drag albums into Windows Media Player Library(My preferred method, seems to be most reliable).
2. Manage libraries in Windows Media Player(not sure how this works, but seems similar to Folder Watching).
3. Manage libraries in Windows Media Center.
4. HomeGroup(Haven't experimented with this).
I've never been a big fan of folder watching, it always seems to create chaos.
For example, I had Time-Life's Treasury of Christmas Album that was setup correctly, then I add it to WMP 12 and some of the tags are modified and the Artwork changes.
I realize that Compilation Albums have always been a struggle, but is this really the best that MS can give us?
-a12vman
I would be frustrated, if I thought WMC ever worked in the first place. I have never been able to even add my itunes lib to it. So for me it has always been a broken useless piece of *** much like the majority of the windows os. If I used my computer for anything other than itunes mozilla and audacity I would be frustrated. But I just have to ignore most of the supposed 'features' that my 2008 hp came with.
ghostofamerica I would be frustrated, if I thought WMC ever worked in the first place. I have never been able to even add my itunes lib to it. So for me it has always been a broken useless piece of *** much like the majority of the windows os. If I used my computer for anything other than itunes mozilla and audacity I would be frustrated. But I just have to ignore most of the supposed 'features' that my 2008 hp came with.
iTunes is Mac software, why are you getting so upset with MS? Don't use MC if it's that much of a problem much less sign up for a forum just to repeat your compalints.