Windows 10: Bugs, working with flacs

I have written a media player in C++, I focussed it to only play mp3(s). But I got a new NAS, I thought I could spare the space for flacs. I don't like music libraries that contain a mix. So I wanted a version that played only flacs. I found the libzplay libraries, which make music streaming very simple.
I got a flac, wrote a little program and played it, fine.

I went to file properties on the flac, and noticed no contributing artist. I typed in xxxx and exited. I then went back in, the xxxx was gone. So I double clicked the file, which brought up the new player, it played for 5 secs, then just disappeared. I dropped it into WPM, which played perfectly, but it didn't display the contributing artist.

I tried musicbee, the contributing artist appeared as xxxx, fine.

I wanted to dissect the flac to see what I could change to make the flac file display correctly. So I created a folder called aa and dropped all the relevent programs into it. I typed libzplay into the file manager search field, it listed every folder and file in aa. 'aa' was a brand new folder in that location, but I often use the name for a temporary bunch of folders. I went to indexing and deleted all indices, then the search worked.

I tried to map my NAS shared folder to a drive, didn't show up under network. So I manually entered the location and mapped the drive, after this the drive does show up under Network.

This combined with icons being messed up on the desktop, and deleted files magically returning (after the trash can is emptied) makes me wish I had a noose and a Microsoft programmer.

By the way the flac problems could be related to the artist/albumartist tiff between unix and windows, they each want to pretend that they know what's best for the customer.

Microsoft 'Du Bist Ein Berliner' (for those of you who don't know it, this was a famous JFK faux pas.

:)

 

Groove displays "Unknown Artist"

I have the same issue too on Windows 10 Pro v1511 (Build 10586.446) but only with FLAC tracks.

I sometimes keep both a 320 Kbps MP3 and FLAC copy of albums, the MP3 versions converted from the FLAC ones using dBpoweramp R16. The strange thing is that the MP3 versions show the artist correctly yet the FLAC ones, which the MP3 ones are converted from,
show as Unknown Artist.

I suspect that there is a bug in Groove that is not reading the Artist tag properly because that same tag reads fine when converted to MP3 without any further editing.

 

some FLAC Tags in Explorer not visible

Please wait, yesterday all my FLAC tags display 100%, with some plug-in installed.



This morning my PC took 5 minutes to ready. and show some Windows new features are ready for use. But 30% for FLAC file tags like figure above disappear in Explorer. WMP seems been re-set, so some setting lose. Previous disabled
FLAC tags support automatic back with bug.



Be aware, Your Windows update is coming soon, Let's find a new solution for it.