Wireless Music: Product Stat

Hi there,
does anyone know if Creative still consider the Wireless Music system as a "li've" product?
I've just been trawling the forum looking for info about drop outs and freezes, and found a thread where the moderator was kind enough to email a test version of a new firmware to those that requested it. This thread started months ago and as far as I can see this firmware has still not been posted to the official download site. This seems to imply that Wireless Music isn't receiving much love & attention from Creative. Are we likely to see any further development of the system in the future?
I love the LCD remote supplied with the system but with a large song library finding a particular track can take far too long. Are there any plans to update the software in the remote to either improve the scrolling speed or improve the search facilities?
Cheers,
Q.

Cat,
Please pass along the bug with accented characters in the Artist name like M?tley Crue. Using the remote if you go in by artist to the albums under the artist and then select the album, nothing displays. If you go in directley from albums it works fine. This is a software bug that's been identified for about a year now and nothing has been done to correct it. As can be seen by this example and others there appears to be a black hole somewhere between the moderators and the developers (if there are any).
W3

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Hi,
I know the current gen of SB wireless music is a couple of years old, and I was wondering if Creative were looking into doing the 'next gen'. Whilst I don't own one, I am very interested in getting one (they are hard to find here in Australia).
If once is in development I have a few suggestions;
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* More RAM to decrease buffer/playlist delay
* True 802.g support
* Colour LCD on remote
* Shoutcast/(ASX/ASF) support
* Power/Signal level on remote
If anyone else has suggestions, please post away!
Look forward to seeing the next wireless music!
Later
Draxxx

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New to the forum....
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I know you can purchase Musicmatch music then burn a CD, then rip it back into MediaSource, but that is such a pain and you have to manually type in all the ID info. Am I missing something? Winamp had a issue with playing DRM encoded WMA files, but a patch fixed that, does anybody know if that is planed for Wireless Music?

Serge,
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RayBowers,
Currently the most recent update that I have is firmware update that addresses difficulties with high bitrate files. That file is available through email currently and does update the remote software (but no changes to functionality that I know of). I have not received any information on updates for the wireless music but will pass your suggestion to our product developers (along with your request). I'll see if I can find anything out for you on this.
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I checked the lierature for system requirements and it only lists Win98 or newer, no mention of Mac. Maybe a CL person would comment on possible future plans. Typically they won't comment on unannounced products though.
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