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<h1>About WMPPlayListFix</h1>
<p>This tool is able to fix a few problems that Windows Media Player (WMP) doesn't do, mainly
removing double entries from a playlist.</p>
<p>What is the problem:</p>
<ul>
<li>WMP doesn't check if a song is already in a playlist and will add doubles. Those doubles
can only be manually removed, which is very labourious. This application can check and remove
doubles using one of three methods:<br /></li>
<ul>
<li>Check on filename: here the fileame part of the path to the music file is used to compare for doubles</li>
<li>Check on location: here the whole path of the music file is used to look for doubles.
this is a good method to remove doubles that are caused by accidentally adding the same ablum multiple times.</li>
<li>Check n tracktitle: this is a slow process (because each media file has to be opened) but works very good
to remove doubles that occur because the same song is preformed by multiple artists and/or is present on multiple albums.
Only one (this first one in te list) remains after usig this method.<br /><br /></li>
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<li>WMP doesn't check if media files still exists when a playlist is opened, only when it tries to play the song
the player stops and presents an error. This application removes any playlist entries that points to a file
that doesn't exists anymore.<br /></li>
<li>When synchronizing a playlist to a mobile device that is smaller than the contents of the playlist you want to
shuffle the music to that device. Despite WMP having a shuffle function it still writes the playlist to
the device in the sequence it is in the playlist (alphebetical). This application can shuffle a playlist
so WMP synchronizes a shuffled playlist to the device. There are other ways to do it's, but this is easier.</li>
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<h2>Using the software</h2>
<p>First of all, you need to have Microsoft Windows Media Player installed, a version newer then version 9.</p>
<p>When the program starts for the first time the application tries to find the WMP playlist folder.
If it has located this folder then the File Selection box is filled with the playlists it find in that folder,
if there are more then 15 files a selection is placed in the list.
The folder selection is set to the WMP playlist folder</p>
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<h2>Limitation</h2>
<ul>
<li>The program works best with MP3 music files.</li>
<li>The program all works properly if the playlist that it works on is in the WMP playlist folder.
Do not copy playlists to other folders and work on them there, that doesn't work because of the way
Micorosoft stores the link to the media file in the playlist.</li>
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