indecipherable code in musicproperties.Genre ???

Question

Hi I've create a little piece of code where I retrieve music Genre using this class:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.storage.fileproperties.musicproperties

Now the code is naive

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           // Get music properties
              MusicProperties musicProperties = await file.Properties.GetMusicPropertiesAsync();
              outputText.AppendLine("Album: " + musicProperties.Album);
              outputText.AppendLine("Rating: " + musicProperties.Rating);
              outputText.AppendLine("Genre: " + musicProperties.Genre[0]);

the output is something weird like this:

Genre: [18,8,9000000012d]

Any idea???

Thanks

Answer 1

Do all music files give this kind of information, or just one file?

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Answer 2

sorry for delay in answer 

yes I find in every songs so for example an output is 18,8,9000000 other 18,8,900012d and is a string...

seems a vector in a string, an I dunno why

an the property is MusicProperties.Genre[0]

thanks

Answer 3

Any Idea ??

Answer 4

I think it's the file itself. Your code works fine with the .mp3 file I have.  I chose a file with a known genre and it came out exactly as I expected.  You can see the properties of the file itself if you right-click that file and go to "Details".

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Matt Small - Microsoft Escalation Engineer - Forum Moderator
If my reply answers your question, please mark this post as answered.

NOTE: If I ask for code, please provide something that I can drop directly into a project and run (including XAML), or an actual application project. I'm trying to help a lot of people, so I don't have time to figure out weird snippets with undefined objects and unknown namespaces.

Answer 5

really strange, the problem isn't for just one file but for a great number, not I will try to install windows ce  try to other pc...

thanks :)

Answer 6

There is definitely a bug. I have identical code and it shows 18,9,900000012,  18,9,900000013, 18,9,900000014, and so on..

These files show the correct Genre when navigation the storage and right clicking and viewing the properties from Windows. The files were all transferred using the windows phone desktop app.