New Creative Mediasource "Plays all your multimedia files"

Hi,
During the installation of the new creative drivers and software, I was surprised to see that Creative MediaSource would play all my multimedia files (in French, there was a caption during installation that mentioned: "Joue tous vos fichiers multim?dias". And I thought, wow, great move from Creative, now they're finally adding ogg and other formats to the CMS software!
But I was forced to discover that it was not really true. When browsing my (50 CD's) ogg file collection, I was dissapointed to find that the player considered these directories as empty.
Even dragging an ogg file onto the player resulted in a long silence... and my speakers are turned on!
Luckily, I can still play them using other software, and my iRi'ver H-340 can also handle these, but it saddens me to see that the CMS application is not as easily extendable as other audio players.
Let's hope Ogg support will come with the X-Fi series of cards... along with the Linux Alsa modules :P

There is a way to play ogg on CMS2.
But then you've to add too much software encoded crap like ac3 and OGG acm codec.
Best way is not to use any creative player.
CreativeMediaSourceplayer=don't use it, it only plays wav/wma/mp3, no ogg aac monkeyaudio etc. Also no webstreams ..So forget CMS get FOOBAR2000.
Also don't use the creative dvd-a player, this player only supports audio, but most dvd-a do have image/video content. You'll see it on a dvd player, but not on creative DVD-A player.. And don't use codecpacks!!!!
so most creative players are crap, not professional. Bad extension mediatype support.
Foobar2000-> http://www.foobar2000.org/foobar2000_special.exe
VLC-> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
FFDshow-> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5376

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