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Anusha's Techno Portal: Why did Vista designers take us to last decade?

Anusha's Techno Portal: Why did Vista designers take us to last decade?

iTSfv has multiple faces

During the last few days some significant core changes as to how iTSfv loads were done. This was transparent for the general user. According to the current implementation, iTSfv goes to a WMPfv mode if it detects Windows Vista Media Center and no iTunes is detected. If neither Vista Media Center nor iTunes is detected then iTSfv will go to a File Validator mode. I was originally thinking of having one big cool GUI for both iTunes and WMP but later decided for the sake of making things modular, splitting the work into two GUI forms. So now when I work on WMPfv and see any buggy code in iTSfv I can go back and actually fix it because I am kind of rewriting things from scratch. If I was using the same iTSfv GUI then I wouldn't have spotted it. So far WMPfv implements Synchroclean and Updating UrlToCover from existing Album Art. Functionality should be added to load Windows Media Player library to XmlTracks, extracting Cover to the folders required. So when the user validates she ca