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<blockquote data-quote="prostuff1" data-source="post: 132143" data-attributes="member: 42736"><p>The original up and running step was pretty good. I did have to dive into the MP setup because my stuff was not in the "normal" place. I moved all my media to another HD.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It would be nice if something about codecs was explained. That is the biggest problem I had. I am use to using a mac (and VLC, which i know understand uses its own codecs) and that caused me to not fully understand what codecs were and what they did. It would probably be easier if MP included or at least linked to a codec pack. I know this is not the ideal way to do it but it is the easiest for the beginner.</p><p></p><p>The other thing I had trouble with was getting some of my music to play. Some of it would and some would not, which confused me cause they seemed to be exactly the same from the file info I looked at. The "internal dshow player" for some reason did not like to play all of it. As soon as I switched it to the BASS engine everything worked fine. Not sure why that made a difference but it did.</p><p></p><p>Another thing that would be cool would be to have media portal "overlook" certain folders. My iTunes library is what media portal looks at and I have iTunes keep everything organized. There are some audiobook and Griffin iTrip stuff that is in there that I wish I could just remove from the list. If MP could present me a list of folders in the MP setup page under music and then I could uncheck a certain folder that would be useful for me.</p><p></p><p>The only other thing that was difficult to get working was subtitle and other audio tracks in my anime. It would be GREAT for those kinda things to be installed automatically. They are not very big file and it would save the pain of going around and searching the internet/this forum if they were installed by default.</p><p></p><p>All of that stuff aside, MP really is a great piece of software!! Thanks for the hard work!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="prostuff1, post: 132143, member: 42736"] The original up and running step was pretty good. I did have to dive into the MP setup because my stuff was not in the "normal" place. I moved all my media to another HD. It would be nice if something about codecs was explained. That is the biggest problem I had. I am use to using a mac (and VLC, which i know understand uses its own codecs) and that caused me to not fully understand what codecs were and what they did. It would probably be easier if MP included or at least linked to a codec pack. I know this is not the ideal way to do it but it is the easiest for the beginner. The other thing I had trouble with was getting some of my music to play. Some of it would and some would not, which confused me cause they seemed to be exactly the same from the file info I looked at. The "internal dshow player" for some reason did not like to play all of it. As soon as I switched it to the BASS engine everything worked fine. Not sure why that made a difference but it did. Another thing that would be cool would be to have media portal "overlook" certain folders. My iTunes library is what media portal looks at and I have iTunes keep everything organized. There are some audiobook and Griffin iTrip stuff that is in there that I wish I could just remove from the list. If MP could present me a list of folders in the MP setup page under music and then I could uncheck a certain folder that would be useful for me. The only other thing that was difficult to get working was subtitle and other audio tracks in my anime. It would be GREAT for those kinda things to be installed automatically. They are not very big file and it would save the pain of going around and searching the internet/this forum if they were installed by default. All of that stuff aside, MP really is a great piece of software!! Thanks for the hard work!! [/QUOTE]
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