Ok, file under nitpicking and perhaps it is embedded in the file header or mistyped in some database somewhere, but it doesn't seem to make much sense. For those not aware Media Player has the ability to go out on the web and attempt to find a album cover for whatever music files you have on your system. It won't work will all and some of the matches seem strange, still a nice feature if it worked better.
Case in point, I just started looking at my extensive music collection I recently converted to MP3 format and was looking at the genre* (type of music) Vista assigned it.
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* If you would like to try this, go to Window Explorer, find a folder where you have some music files, .wav, MP3 etc.. If you don't already see the genre column, right click on blank space in the right most column, select more, then run down the list until you see genre, then check it, the don't forget to move it up the list to near the top and finally click apply and ok. You also need to assign a column width. Now you hit refresh and you should see (assuming Media Player has already done some research on the web many of your audio files have now been assigned a genre, like country, blues, rock.. ...........................................................................
My question, just scanning my files I see some odd genre assigments that Vista put there for example:
1. A collection of classics from various masters assigned as blues. 2. 12th Street Rag, a blues song is labeled as country. 3. Blue Danube Waltz, got assigned as blues, oh please! 4. Dance of the Blessed Spirits, classical, shown as blues. 5. Danny Boy, a standard oldie, shown as country. Too funny!
Anybody know what's going on?

Adam What did you use to convert youre music collection to mp3? There seem to be a lot of shareware on the net. Which one to choose? Does Windows have a feature capable to convert different music formats? Thank you. Galkas
On 17 Mar, 16:59, Adam Albright wrote:

On 17 Mar 2007 15:39:02 -0700, "galkas" wrote:

I used Roxio Easy Creator 9. Because mp3 uses a licensed codec I doubt you'll find any "legal" free applications. I normally use Vegas to do this kind of thing but I wanted to see what Roxio could do. Easy Creator 9 takes a whole CD at a gulp (usually-18-24) songs and converts the whole bunch in one operation...in a couple minutes. One down side it adds the track number, so I renamed to get rid of that since everything is going to end up in a one big folder sorted by genre which I'm reediting right now to suit my own tastes. ;-)

If they are in wma format, burn to CD with Media Player then rip from CD in MP3 format also with media player. "galkas"

"Adam Albright"

Not an SME on this stuff... but I'd guess that Roxio, when you ripped your CD's, went out to CDDB (or some other database) and categorized your music based on what was found in the DB. Or the first entry found... And if Roxio didn't categorize it, Media Player's just going out to a DB somewhere to get the info...
Shoot, you can go into the iTunes store and search on something you're know is going to return a lot of hits... oh, I don't know... say Stevie Wonder... sort by song name and, lo and behold, you'll find the same song categorized as "rock," "soul," and maybe even "polka." LOL. Don't think it's a Media Player issue.
Lang

On 18 Mar, 05:28, <.> wrote:

Hello Thank you very much. A suggestion of the last author to use Windows Media player works like a charm! gs