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Posts Tagged ‘Windows 7’

SOLVED: Missing MP3 album meta information (ID3 tags) Windows 7 & Vista

Having finally migrated my main computer over to Windows 7, due to issues with my graphics card I encountered with Ubuntu Lucid, I noticed an issue with Windows Media Player not being able to correctly identify some of my music in my collection.

This issue is also there when using Windows Explorer to view the music files.  Its seems that some MP3′s and M4a’s (AAC) do not show any ID3 information.  I know this information is there as its works perfectly with Rhythmbox on Ubuntu, or even Songbird on Windows but its seems that Windows has an issue with some files. Read the rest of this entry »

SOLVED: Installing MySQL Windows 7 (not responding)

Recently I had to install a WAMP server on my laptop running Windows 7.  The downside to Windows, in my opinion, is there is no package management tools such as apt-get or yum, therefore all software has to be installed and maintained manually.

Installing MySQL seemed to be a headache.  The installer would stop responding at Instance Configuration Wizard, however the solution to this problem is easy. Read the rest of this entry »