Registered: Nov 2009
From: Villa Rica, GA

I've searched the forum and couldn't find my same problem. If I missed it please let me know.

The problem is tyhat I can't get any Smart Views to work. For example, If I select the preset for 70's Music I don't get any results. The same is true for any custom View and all the other Pre-Sets that are given to you. Oddly enough, there is one exception and that is for the 'Top Rated' view which does work.
If anyone can suggest how I can trouble shoot this I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

John Taylor

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Registered: Dec 2000
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Are the files tagged? The media library uses tag data (metadata) for the smart views.

Are you using any third party input plug-ins? Older input plug-ins may not parse metadata to the ML.

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Registered: Nov 2009
From: Villa Rica, GA

Thanks for responding. Let me say up front that I'm a little ignorant on configuring Winamp! I can tell you that Include IDv1 and IDV2 boxes are checked. Is that what you were asking? I did see a botton for "Auto-Tag" but when I check it I get the message, "Gracenote tools are not installed". Could that have anything to do with it?

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Registered: Dec 2000
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Almost. I was talking about the artist & title (etc.) information for audio files. For MP3s it is commonly referred as ID3 info. Than is the information you see in the view File Info box.

The 70's smart view, uses the Year field from the ID3 or metadata. If there is no year in the metadata, the media file won't show up in 60's, 70's 80's (and so on) views.

As for the error message you get after clicking the Auto-Tag button. Try reinstalling Winamp. In the Choose Components section (window/page 4) of the Windows installer, make sure 'CDDB for recognizing CDs' (in the Multimedia Engine branch) and 'Auto_Tagger' (in the Winamp Library branch) are check-marked. You may need to click the plug sign + next to Multimedia Engine and Winamp Library to expand the options branch.

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