WMP 11 - online stores

since that I installed WP11, do not appear listed any Online Stores

Any ideia !!!

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

PLEASE NOTE: If you use Windows Media Player to access a favorite online
store, some are not available for this beta release. The following stores
are available in the Windows Media Player 11 beta release: Audible, f.y.e.,
Live365, Movielink, MSN Music, Napster, Passalong, Puretracks, URGE,
Wal-Mart and XM Radio.

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"Paulo" <> wrote in message
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> since that I installed WP11, do not appear listed any Online Stores
>
> Any ideia !!!

Paulo wrote:
> since that I installed WP11, do not appear listed any Online Stores
>
> Any ideia !!!

If your user locale is not English(US) you won't see anything.

"Mike Williams" wrote:

> Paulo wrote:
> > since that I installed WP11, do not appear listed any Online Stores
> >
> > Any ideia !!!
>
> If your user locale is not English(US) you won't see anything.
>
Same problem. How do I change user locale to english? No Online stores -> no
radio

Maxa wrote:
>
> "Mike Williams" wrote:
>
>> Paulo wrote:
>>> since that I installed WP11, do not appear listed any Online Stores
>>>
>>> Any ideia !!!
>> If your user locale is not English(US) you won't see anything.
>>
> Same problem. How do I change user locale to english? No Online stores -> no
> radio

Control Panel > Regional Settings


NB doing this will not only change how dates & other units are presented
on your system, but may have other unforseen side effects.

"Mike Williams" wrote:

> Maxa wrote:
> >
> > "Mike Williams" wrote:
> >
> >> Paulo wrote:
> >>> since that I installed WP11, do not appear listed any Online Stores
> >>>
> >>> Any ideia !!!
> >> If your user locale is not English(US) you won't see anything.
> >>
> > Same problem. How do I change user locale to english? No Online stores -> no
> > radio
>
> Control Panel > Regional Settings
>
>
> NB doing this will not only change how dates & other units are presented
> on your system, but may have other unforseen side effects.
No help in my case: Win XP finnish, after changing regional settings to
en_us still no online stores. Back to WMP 10..
>

On Wed, 17 May 2006 09:51:02 -0700, Paulo
<> wrote:

>since that I installed WP11, do not appear listed any Online Stores

What [geographical] region are you in ?

Cheers - Neil
------------------------------------------------
Digital Media MVP : 2004-2006
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

Maxa wrote:
>
>> NB doing this will not only change how dates & other units are presented
>> on your system, but may have other unforseen side effects.
> No help in my case: Win XP finnish, after changing regional settings to
> en_us still no online stores. Back to WMP 10..

Your use of "en_us" suggests you changed your browser accept language
rather than your user locale.

On Wed, 17 May 2006 18:52:31 +0100, Mike Williams
<> wrote:

>Maxa wrote:
>>
>> "Mike Williams" wrote:
>>
>>> Paulo wrote:
>>>> since that I installed WP11, do not appear listed any Online Stores
>>>>
>>>> Any ideia !!!
>>> If your user locale is not English(US) you won't see anything.
>>>
>> Same problem. How do I change user locale to english? No Online stores -> no
>> radio
>
>Control Panel > Regional Settings
>
>
>NB doing this will not only change how dates & other units are presented
>on your system, but may have other unforseen side effects.


Mike - just to clarify : Is that the 'Standards and formats' dropdown
you mean, or the Location dropdown ? The two seem independent in XP,
that is you can set UK currency/date formats and USA location.

Any clue which or if both are used by WMP ?

I'm not too lazy to check, but WMP is re-acquiring my library off the
network drive, it's usually an overnight task

I moved it from \\Yvain\Disk1 to \\Yvain\Disk 2 after an upgrade,
happy to say WMP was able to completely remove the library entries
pointing to Disk 1 and is now scanning on Disk 2 instead.

Cheers - Neil
------------------------------------------------
Digital Media MVP : 2004-2006
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] wrote:
> On Wed, 17 May 2006 18:52:31 +0100, Mike Williams
> <> wrote:
>
>> Maxa wrote:
>>> "Mike Williams" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Paulo wrote:
>>>>> since that I installed WP11, do not appear listed any Online Stores
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideia !!!
>>>> If your user locale is not English(US) you won't see anything.
>>>>
>>> Same problem. How do I change user locale to english? No Online stores -> no
>>> radio
>> Control Panel > Regional Settings
>>
>>
>> NB doing this will not only change how dates & other units are presented
>> on your system, but may have other unforseen side effects.
>
>
> Mike - just to clarify : Is that the 'Standards and formats' dropdown
> you mean, or the Location dropdown ? The two seem independent in XP,
> that is you can set UK currency/date formats and USA location.

Yes there are many independent locale / language options:
* user locale: governs date/currency/number formatting; programs like
Office will use it to help with defaults for language-sensitive
features, but you can override within the program; ( more advanced
software like Vista ignores all your settings and assumes US and PST
timezone )
* user location: designed to help you get location based services (like
weather, news, <cough> stores)
* keyboard language
* UI language ( requires additional software to implement)

> Any clue which or if both are used by WMP ?

The user locale (currency/date format) is used to specify the store
location just as in v10. It only appears to pay attention at app-load
time, so you could probably run a little script to switch locales, load
the app, and then switch it back each time you wanted to run WMP. I
leave that as an exercise for the reader :-).