Our local CSTA chapter recently signed up for Oreillys User Community. If you are a member of a local CSTA chapter (and you should be - its free people) this is a service that might be helpful for your chapter.

From their website: If you run a user group, Meetup, professional association, or other technology group, OReilly Communities can provide you with:

• Review copies of OReilly, Microsoft Press, Pragmatic, No Starch, and SitePoint products
• Donations of books and other promo items

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Fixing Album Art Image in Windows 8 Media Player

Almost each and everyone out there in the World is familiar with Album Art when it comes listening to music.  For the ones who dont know it, it is a small picture shown when we play a soundtrack on a player that supports Album Arts.

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On Windows 8 systems and Windows 7, we notice sometimes we are seeing same Album Art for each and every track we play in a specific folder or a common folder for all soundtracks.  This is a common problem in Windows 8 default Windows Media Player but very annoying if you love Album Art and want to keep it up to date with the soundtracks you play.

To Fix this issue, follow these steps below:

1. Exit Windows Media Player.

2. Open Run Command Prompt by pressing (Window Key + R).

3. Type exactly in bold or copy-paste into Run prompt and press Enter key,

%LOCALAPPDATA%Microsoft

4. Find and Delete Media Player folder.

5. Restart Windows Media Player.

Note: Windows Media Player automatically rebuilds the database.

Hope this helps.

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