lyrics

I would like to get my two cents out here and say that I think that Microsoft should invest some time into forcing the portable device industry into supporting the meta tags that Windows Media Player supports. I don't know how or even if this is possible, but as it stands now, the average portable device has little or no support for lyrics (especially files that had their lyrics inserted from the tool included in the Windows Media Encoder package). Lyrics are a huge thing to me because with the way the music industry has moved today, they aren't always obvious to everyone.

I have motioned this before, but not here. I would also REALLY like to see support for lyrics that are embedded into file through a stream, work in the embedded versions of Media Player. Currently, if I was to open a stream from my Windows Sever 2003 Streaming Media Services in Windows Media Player 10, I could see the lyrics, but if I was to play the same stream from an embedded player, I can't. I know you can by making another file that handles all that jazz, but I think that makes it too much work for the public to take advantage of it. Ease of use is key to pushing something into the main stream.

Whatever, my two cents. I wasn't getting much of a response to this in some of the other newsgroups, so figured I might as well drop it here.

"Lyrics are a huge thing to me because with the way the music industry has moved today, they aren't always obvious to everyone."
Agreed, but I don't know if you will actually see this implemented, but there should be some cool content stuff coming with Windows Media Player 11 that will be worth checking out. You can read up about it now: The Windows Media Player 11 experience by Joli Ballew: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/community/mediaplayer.mspx -- Andre Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta FAQ for MS AntiSpy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
"Jonathan D. Falconnier" wrote in message

I would like to get my two cents out here and say that I think that Microsoft should invest some time into forcing the portable device industry into supporting the meta tags that Windows Media Player supports. I don't know how or even if this is possible, but as it stands now, the average portable device has little or no support for lyrics (especially files that had their lyrics inserted from the tool included in the Windows Media Encoder package). Lyrics are a huge thing to me because with the way the music industry has moved today, they aren't always obvious to everyone.

I have motioned this before, but not here. I would also REALLY like to see support for lyrics that are embedded into file through a stream, work in the embedded versions of Media Player. Currently, if I was to open a stream from my Windows Sever 2003 Streaming Media Services in Windows Media Player 10, I could see the lyrics, but if I was to play the same stream from an embedded player, I can't. I know you can by making another file that handles all that jazz, but I think that makes it too much work for the public to take advantage of it. Ease of use is key to pushing something into the main stream.

Whatever, my two cents. I wasn't getting much of a response to this in some of the other newsgroups, so figured I might as well drop it here.