I served in the submarine community. Your comment may be true across all of the Navy (not sure, was only exposed to a certain community), but doesn't reflect attitudes in the submarine community. As ironic as it seems, my shipmates were probably among the most progressive and accepting people that I have ever worked with. You may think that close proximity would make it even more homophobic. I found the opposite. Living in close proximity forced us to be even more tolerant of each other, even if we didn't agree with each others' beliefs.
I use an iriver mp3 player for a combination of home-ripped oggs and napster to go DRM wma. Not much choice but to use WMP 10 (will try WMP 11 after it is shaken out a little).
Fairly easy to find ogg codecs for WMP (e.g. http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/ ). But these only allow you to play oggs, and they get treated as Other Media instead of Music.
There is a project named WMP Tag Support Extender found at http://wmptagext.sourceforge.net/index.html which will recognize the tags and allow you to have much better functionality.
A little more info can be found related to my iriver solution at http://www.misticriver.net/showthread.php?t=34423
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I served in the submarine community. Your comment may be true across all of the Navy (not sure, was only exposed to a certain community), but doesn't reflect attitudes in the submarine community. As ironic as it seems, my shipmates were probably among the most progressive and accepting people that I have ever worked with. You may think that close proximity would make it even more homophobic. I found the opposite. Living in close proximity forced us to be even more tolerant of each other, even if we didn't agree with each others' beliefs.
From another former submariner who was stationed at Bangor, I agree completely with your response.
I use an iriver mp3 player for a combination of home-ripped oggs and napster to go DRM wma. Not much choice but to use WMP 10 (will try WMP 11 after it is shaken out a little). Fairly easy to find ogg codecs for WMP (e.g. http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/ ). But these only allow you to play oggs, and they get treated as Other Media instead of Music. There is a project named WMP Tag Support Extender found at http://wmptagext.sourceforge.net/index.html which will recognize the tags and allow you to have much better functionality. A little more info can be found related to my iriver solution at http://www.misticriver.net/showthread.php?t=34423