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1.Auto playlist criteria - exact match only, no wildcards?

Here's another little annoying "feature" with the auto playlists: using 
keywords in the title to create an auto playlist doesn't work unless you have 
an exact match. No wildcards allowed, apparently, and the search word can't 
be just part of another word. 

Example: I'd like a list created of my crankygeeks MP3 podcasts. There's no 
artist or contributing artist info in the tag, nothing except a title of 
crankygeeks.XXX, with the XXX being an episode number. However, I can't use a 
wildcard for the episode information, so there's no way I can think of to 
make an auto playslist. 

Did microsoft not try to use this feature? How about adding folder location 
or file name to the selection criteria? 

"Airmon" wrote:

> Hi all,
>    I have two issues:
>   1.   My WMP creates its own playlists ( not the "auto playlist" 
> function...) that are not ( or at least not frequently ) updated. I've got 
> dozens of them, it looks like one for many of the artists, though not all. 
>     It's very annoying, but if I delete the play lists they just reappear 
> shortly, so I've given up doing that. I've looked through the options, but 
> I'm unable to find any method of turning this "feature" off. 
>     I've created a few of my own "auto playlist" lists, and they update in a 
> much more timely fashion than the other ones, but they kinda get lost in the 
> dozens of WMP-created play lists that I don't want. 
> 
>   2.  I also have a problem with WMP not deleting old items that have been 
> removed from the auto playlist from my mobile device. 
>     Example: I have three items in an auto playlist that I created. I sync 
> that playlist to my device. 
>     Later, my podcast catcher downloads an additional item and I delete one 
> from my PC after listening to it. The auto playlist I created is 
> automatically updated to reflect the new items on the PC, two old items and a 
> new item. 
>     I then sync the play list to my device and the new item is downloaded to 
> the device. However, the device now has ALL FOUR items on it, even the item I 
> deleted from the PC ( and automatically from the play list ). It's an orpan 
> item, not in a play list, just on the device. 
>     Eventually, these orphans begin to clog up the device and I have to 
> either: a) figure out which of the hundreds of items on the device are 
> orphans and delete them manually. b) format the device and copy the playlists 
> back to the device. 
>     Both of these are fairly time-consuming. 
>      
>     This is important to me because the audio items on my player are mostly 
> podcasts and new ones are added and removed daily. Since MS didn't think it 
> was important to add RSS/podcast functionality to WMP, I've had to kludge it 
> together using the Juice podcast catcher and the "auto playlist" function and 
> this "orphan" problem is really making me tear my hair out. 
> 
>     This problem also seems to affect regular ( not auto ) play lists too. 
> 
> Thanks!

2.Parental Controls / Wildcards / MySpace

I'm using Windows Vista Home Premium on the PC that my children use.  I want 
to be able to use Parental Controls, but I want to allow MySpace.  The 
problem is that no matter what categories I choose to block or allow, MySpace 
is blocked.  I can add the domain of myspace.com but with the way MySpace 
works, there are so many subdomians for images and friends that 1/2 of the 
site is still blocked.  Besides trying to allow each domain one at a time, is 
there a way to use wildcards to get Parental Controls to allow the entire 
MySpace site?

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5.Windows Search 4 - Wildcard in file content

Hi,

firstly, apologies if this post lands in the wrong groups.

Have Windows Search 4 in use under XP pro. Works rather nicely - but - 
although I can use wildcards such as "*" for file names - use of wildcards 
for words contained in file content does not work for the word begining.

So, in a content search, bana* will find banana
but
*nana will NOT find banana.

Am unsure if this is by design or if I am goofing somewhere.
Could anyone please advise?

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