[vorbis] Vorbis in Windows Media Player 9, (partial) success

[xdfisl]

There was a registry patch put together by Jason Patterson which I found in
the archives a while ago, when dealing with this problem myself. It contains
a fair few entries.

Jason's registry patch:
http://www.conduits.com/products/player/wmp9ogg.reg

Jason's original post to vorbis-dev:
http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis-dev/200310/0026.html

<p>With regard to the "Other Media" problem: This is a known characteristic,
and there is a fix for it in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823275

<p>Regards,
asqui

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From: owner-vorbis at xiph.org [mailto:owner-vorbis at xiph.org] On Behalf Of
David Balazic
Sent: 11 February 2004 1357
To: 'vorbis at xiph.org'
Subject: [vorbis] Vorbis in Windows Media Player 9, (partial) success

As I said on http://wiki.xiph.org/ClientSupport

I managed to get WMP9 under Windows 2003 to work with OGG vorbis files.
Requisite : OggDS 0.9.9.5

 - they can be opened with the Open... dialog and WMP does not complain any
more that it is an unsupported file format
 - they can be dragged from explorer into WMP and WMP will play them without
any complaint
 - they can be added to the media library. Small problem, they show up under
"Other Media" instead of "Music files"
 
How to do it ? Tweak the registry :
 --BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY BEFORE TWEAKING !!--

 - HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT - add additional .ogg info ( use others existing types
as a guide, like AIFF )
 - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\MPlayer2 ( this is for
WMP 6.4, but it seems it plays a role for WMP9 too ... )
 - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer
In the these two parts, also add as much OGG info as possible, use existing
types as a guide.

I will try to sort out the mess what my registry became and send what
exactly I changed. Until then, somebody find someone who actually knows what
those registry entries mean at all ;-)

Regards,
David Balazic
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