Has anyone tried the new MCE Tunes plug-in (www.mcetunes.com) for integrating iTunes 6 or 7 with My Music in MCE 2005 ?

I'm such a coward when it comes to early adoption !

 

Trying it now, I'll let u know how it goes.

I've got a copy, I'm going to blog about it later today.

Stupid itunes crashes when importing my library.... Gonna take a bit of digging, havent got to mcetunes yet....

Does this work with WMP11????

What exactly does this mean (from their site):

"MCE Tunes does not "decrypt" any iTunes music and is 100% legal. Your PC must be authorized to play all protected music before you can use MCE Tunes."

It means you must have purchased the songs legally from iTunes, and that their program is not used to illegal rip Apple's DRM (Fairplay) out of the files.

Their program will run in the background and work with QuickTime to playback the files in such ways I assume are outlined by Apple in their SDK, then present it within the MCE UI.

I did have a play with the trial version, i didnt need the full version as i coverted all my protected files and loaded them into WMP before i found this tool.

It does require to have itunes running in order to work.

It seems to work and copies all the references into WMP, but does not copy across the Album titles or the track sequence, which means you have to fiddle a bit in WMP before you can use album art fixer.

But now i have got all the music into Media Centre and they seem to play properly.

Having iTunes open in the background doesn't bother me, as I have it open already for downloading podcasts and ready to update my iPod.

One big question though, does is group compilation albums when browsing by artists like iTunes does?

Does this work for video as well?  (iTMS purchased TV Shows & Movies, etc...)

I have this program and I have been extremely impressed with both the program and the response from the company. It has wroked perfectly for me so far. I have iTunes 6.x with wmp 10. It doesn't do videos or show art work yet. However, I hear that they are working on the artwork part for an upcoming release.

Another impressed vote from me.  I don't even use iTunes on a regular basis, but this program does work.  I had a problem with the tagging of tracks a few days ago, e-mail them about it, and it's fixed now. Album art is the only thing left (other than Extender support) for this to be a complete solution.

If you use iTMS, I would highly suggest checking it out (again, I don't purchase from iTMS or own an iPod, but I tried it and it works great!).

Big thumbs up from me as well.

I don't use iTMS either. I do have an iPod though, that’s one of the reasons way i use iTunes I suppose.

The best thing about this is that I don't even need to touch WMP. No need for watched music folders either. Simplifies everything. Defo recommend it.


Now here is a question. My Music in MCE is still pretty much unusable for me, due to all my compilation albums. And I don't really want to rename all the tags for my compilation albums so that Artist = Various Artists and Title = Artist-TitleName. This would fix my problem, but it’s not ideal.
So my question is; Is it even remotely possible that MCE Tunes could be programmed to use export Album Artist from iTunes as Artist in WMP, without effecting my mp3 tags? I was going to pop them an email, But I don't really know how these library's work, and if it’s even a solution. I would pay for this feature.


Gary