Dale

If you copy the files to your local drive can you play them?

An interesting test would be to copy the files to your local drive, delete
them on the network drive, and then copy the local version back to the
network drive - it is a simple way of tweaking the permissions so that you
own and have access to them on the network.

I like to keep a FAT partition on a hard drive so that I can strip all
permissions and other hidden things like alternate data streams from a file.
If you have a portable drive with FAT partitioning, that would work. Copy
them to the portable, delete them from the NDAS drive, copy back from the
portable to the NDAS drive.

There are other ways to work on the permissions but I find these are
easiest, especially when things start getting complex.

Dale

"Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8E21B3D2-4A2D-4ED3-A1C2-E06B181C39AB@microsoft.com...
> We have a brand new ACER with Vista premium.
> I added my NDAS network drive to the list of files to search.
> The machine recognizes files on the NDAS drive after hours of trying to
> get
> that set up. When I used the add to library function it searched all of
> the
> folders and I could see them display in the status window. I also added
> the
> few WAV files on that drive to the library but it ignored all of the MP3s.
> When I ripped a couple of CDs to the local drive it allowed me to rip them
> as
> MP3s and added them to the library. I have no plans to rerip hundreds of
> CDs.
> In music match there is an option inthe search menu to id the types of
> files
> included in the search but I could not find an equivalent in windows media
> player.
>
>
> "Dale" wrote:
>
>> It should find your MP3s just fine. It does mine.
>>
>> Can you provide more information? How are you trying to add them?
>> Monitored folders? Drag and drop?
>>
>> Do the files play if you double click them in Explorer?
>>
>> Was this an upgrade from XP or a new clean install of Vista? Perhaps on
>> a
>> new machine? How did you get the files to where Vista can see them?
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> "Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:BA8F2C47-EEA0-459C-B87A-3A9504FC6C24@microsoft.com...
>> >I have been using windows since the 1.X versions. and Vista s the first
>> >to
>> >be
>> > worse than the previous versions. Like wise I can not make it find my
>> > multi
>> > thousands of MP3s I have been Ripping over the last 6 years. It did
>> > find a
>> > few .wav files I have on my server. Is this another case of Vista
>> > trying
>> > to
>> > force you to use the Microsoft prefered formats? I had been using
>> > musicmatch
>> > on my XP machines and it ran fine like most other programs. Is there a
>> > straight forward setting to make Windows find MP3s? will music match
>> > work
>> > with VISTA? can we go mack to XP?
>> >
>>
>>