WMP Tag Support Extender

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Windows Media Player Tag Support Extender
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WMP plug-in extending tag capabilities
Developer(s) MaB_fr
Release information
Initial release {{{released}}}
Stable release 1.1.1
Preview release none
Compatibility
Operating system Windows
Additional information
Use WMP plug-in
License Public domain + source
Website http://wmptagext.sourceforge.net


Windows Media Player Tag Support Extender (WMPTSE) is a plug-in to Windows Media Player to allow more tags support than the default WMA + ID3 within the player.

It supports version 9.x, 10.x and 11.0 of Windows Media Player.

The current version (1.1.1) supports Vorbis comment, APEv2 and FLAC and MPEG4.


Supported Tag Format

Additional tagging formats may be supported through a plug-in API (known as WMPTSE API)


Supported Filetypes

  • FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec(*.flac)
  • APE - Monkey's Audio (*.ape)
  • MPC - MusePack (*.mpc)
  • WavPack (*.wv)
  • OptimFROG (*.ofr)
  • Ogg Vorbis - Ogg files (*.ogg) - READ-ONLY
  • AAC - Advanced Audio Coding (*.aac) - READ-ONLY
  • M4A,MP4 - MPEG4 Audio (*.m4a) - READ-ONLY


Extensibility

WMPTSE provide options to add tagging based on file extension.

It allows tagging in files who usually don't support it, such as exotic (but useful) tagging of AC3, DTS and LPCM files, or less useful like .txt, JPEG file tagging and more.

Tag support is pluggable. Each "tag support dll" responding to the WMPTSE API.


Guide & Howtos

WMPTSE - How to change the plug-in properties

WMPTSE - How to add support for a filetype

The complete Media Center + WMPTSE guide (from LosslessAudioBlog)

WMPTSE - How to add support for a tag format

WMPTSE - How to listen audio from DVD and DVDAudio files in Windows Media Player

Price

The sofware is free.


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