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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0002109 | MMW v4 | Synchronization | public | 2005-10-28 05:48 | 2007-08-26 01:21 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | suspended | ||
| Fixed in Version | 3.0 | ||||
| Summary | 0002109: Synchronization: Tracks on MTP devices cannot be played or browsed easily | ||||
| Description | Playback of tracks works on MM 2.5 for iPods and UMS devices, but does not for MTP devices. This is a pretty major weakness, but is partially the result of the wmdm framework. As part of this issue, it would also make sense for the MTP device to be browseable in the same manner as an iPod device (or like MTP devices in WMP 11). i.e. user should be able to browse by Artist, Album, Genre, etc. | ||||
| Additional Information | Originally raised in 0002094 | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in build | 1063 | ||||
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Jiri: (given wmdm limitations) the only option is to copy track from device to a temp PC folder prior playback and play it then. This isn't too hard to do somehow, but is a little more tricky in order to not have skips between tracks. Also, question is how well will downloading tracks from device to PC work (e.g. in case of DRM or possible some buggy/incomplete firmware). |
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Fixed in build 1063. - I added support for playback, but unfortunatelly couldn't test it, because both Cretive Zen V and Sansa e250 players failed on copying tracks from device to PC. Note that they failed on this operation in WMP too. This will probably make this feature useles... :-( - Support for new type of device browsing is more complex and should be tracked in another issue for future versions. |
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Tested using the Zen Sleek in build 1063 as follows: -Opened the device in Windows Explorer and browsed to a track. Double clicked the track --> Track was copied to a temp directory and then played in MM. -Tried doing the same thing in MM -->Tracks got greyed out Note: I didn't try in WMP, but if it works in Explorer, I figured it should be possible to get it working in MM. |
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You are right, it really works. Based on these tests, I'm quite sure that WMDM isn't capable of this (although it has interface for reading tracks from device) and that Explorer works because it uses WPD. I.e., this bug will actually be resolved when 0002693 will be implemented. |
