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RE: Now Playing not displayed
BTW, I'm the only person with that skin listed in 1, and yes i can see your music.

The actual reason for this bug is due to the custom formatting used by Music Now Playing for the raw PSM value
A normal PSM value sent by WMP looks something like this:
code:
WMP\0Music\01\0{0} - {1}\0T.N.T.\0AC\0Bacobens Rock Top 500\0\0
Where "\0" represents a NUL character.
Splitting these values into an array with their meanings results in something like this:
code:
[0]Player
[1]Media type [Music|Games|Office]
[2]Enable bit (Show what I'm listening to is checked)
[3]PSM string formatting
[4]song name {0}
[5]Artist {1}
[6]Album {2}
[7]some ID string {3}

WLM 8.5 and lower will use the value of [3] to determine how the PSM is shown inside the client. In WLM 14, this was changed so now only the default format of "{0} - {1}" Is used, and ignores the formatting string altogether.

Now here's where dt's Music now Playing comes in. MNP because it can show more than song artist and album, can't use these 3 fields alone. Instead, the whole thing is written as the format instead.
Here's an example:
code:
\0Music\01\0AC/DC - T.N.T. (03:34)\0\0\0\0\0
So in fact WLM 14 is showing the "What I'm Listening to" properly, its showing"<song> - <artist>" which if you're using MNP results in " - "
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Now Playing not displayed - by Baggins on 01-29-2009 at 10:48 PM
RE: Now Playing not displayed - by djdannyp on 01-29-2009 at 10:51 PM
RE: Now Playing not displayed - by blessedguy on 01-29-2009 at 11:00 PM
RE: Now Playing not displayed - by Baggins on 01-30-2009 at 03:25 AM
RE: Now Playing not displayed - by MeEtc on 01-30-2009 at 04:25 AM


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