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<blockquote data-quote="HawkMan" data-source="post: 633841" data-attributes="member: 68849">Only my own experience. (I could probably find some if I bothered to look. the windows 7 libraries are essentially most of what the wold WinFS was going to be, a database on top of the filesystem)Go to explorer and your music library for example. and in the upper right corner, you have sort by. by default it uses folder structure. if you use artist for example you get a very nice media library, and one that I feel is superior to the interface that WMP provides you. You can also tag or change tags directly in explorer in the bottom pane. On windows 7, WMP should use this library. though it may have it's own library as well in parallell. But it shouldn't duplicate across them unless you make it.Another good thing with the win7 libraries is if both computers run windows 7, or you have an updated windows search installed on XP/Vista and the media folder is indexed. Then the searching and such will be handled on the computer where the files are stored(on the same token, the libraries don't like you adding networked folders that don't have remote indexes to them.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HawkMan, post: 633841, member: 68849"] Only my own experience. (I could probably find some if I bothered to look. the windows 7 libraries are essentially most of what the wold WinFS was going to be, a database on top of the filesystem) Go to explorer and your music library for example. and in the upper right corner, you have sort by. by default it uses folder structure. if you use artist for example you get a very nice media library, and one that I feel is superior to the interface that WMP provides you. You can also tag or change tags directly in explorer in the bottom pane. On windows 7, WMP should use this library. though it may have it's own library as well in parallell. But it shouldn't duplicate across them unless you make it. Another good thing with the win7 libraries is if both computers run windows 7, or you have an updated windows search installed on XP/Vista and the media folder is indexed. Then the searching and such will be handled on the computer where the files are stored(on the same token, the libraries don't like you adding networked folders that don't have remote indexes to them.) [/QUOTE]

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