Comments on: Windows Media Player 11 Reviewed

By: shawners

shawners — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

One thing I must ask before ever using it. Is it bloated? Does it studder playing music does it make the screen freeze forever to add all the songs on to the media player or to load playlist? Does it have buy stuff on it or links and popup of other crap does it report back to MICROSOFT?

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Amen my brother like I said I have in excess of 140 GB of tunes and so far it handles em’ impeccably far better than iTunes the only other music player ever really capable of loading that much music into its library. Songs and playlists load nice and pretty like egven iTunes would sometimes hesitate for a bit every now and then. Time will really tell I guess how it holds up. As far as reporting back to Microsoft so far I havent noticed anything but with that too time will tell. Just gotta get your firewall up to snuff which in your case Shawners I know wont be a problem. And as far as “buy stuf” crap and “popups” so far ZILCHO other than that URGE stuff but it’s a mere tab that so far is minding its manners.

By: nobodaddy

nobodaddy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I tried this yesterday and i was pretty horrified. The whole corporate feel and multitude of “stores” and invitations to commerce made my head spin. I rolled it back to version 10.Try the latest development build of Quintessential Media Player for true happiness

http://quinnware.com/development.php

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

“corporate feel?”…its a box with your songs loaded in it basically it doesnt leave permanent scars…….”multitude of stores?”…..theres only one URGE or whatever it doesnt appear unless you purposefully click on it maybe your just “clicker happy.” Bottom libne is nothing is going to work as good if they dont have access to all the Windows OS data that microsoft does it just meshes well. It doesnt freeze it doesnt lock up on me and thats with a catalog of more than a 140GB. iTunes was the only one that came close. But I also expect a lot from my music player I want to see the album covers I want track lengths titles the whole deal. If just want a Quintessential Media Player then geeze just use VLC LAN or MS’s BS player.

By: nobodaddy

nobodaddy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Whatever Dude QMP Development Build is not the old QCD player. But let me not hijack your thread. Suffice it to say I didn’t let WMP11 install Urge and it kept nagging me to “Accept” or “Decline” it anyway. I have msn radio and just to get to that I had to wade through lots of promos for almost every kind of digital store you can think of. And the obnoxious Urge logo stays on the skin even if you don’t install it. I’m not against subscription services – like I said I have msn radio AND Rhapsody which I love. I just don’t want my day to day player constantly pushing ads down my throat. WMP10 kept that to a minimum so I like it better so who cares.

By: shawners

shawners — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

May wait for a lite version of this? I use foobar and does what it needs to do. Im not at my PC all the time where I can listen to every artist every song and like looking at every album cover art. So far this is just for the music masses who work at home or in a office with their PC. Play in the background as your doing stuff. I like something that doesnt go by the TAGS but file names and be done right. I may give it a go and see what its like. Every detail of a song is of least importance. Burn the cd or mix cd for car. This may come in handly as creating a playlist and burning it. The only thing i was worried about if it kept advertising stuff with popups load your pc down where songs skip or the visualization would perform badly. I do alot of DVD burning and downloading so my ram hard drive is maxed to the brink alot of times.

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I was just saying that there is no corporate push to buy stuff. Been runinng it al day and the closest I’ve come to getting even a hint of solicitation was when I purposefulyl sought out what URGE was all about. Otherwise that URGE tab just sits there as a simple tab minding it’s own business. Yeah Im a big tag gay use that beauty of a program “TAg & Rename” to set up albums properly as I get them. Tags are vitally important for me so that I can keep a good handle on such a large amount of music. I guess the real thing about it that turned my head was the way that it will line up all the albums of a specific artict and you can scroll through them effortlessly all the while viewing the album cover track lengths and of course song names. So far so good here. Also no nasty Microsoft data submissions as of yet have my firewall set to alert and deny any outbound connections it may attempt to make if any. So far have had none. As far as advertising stuff I HAVE SEEN NONE. I think its because they hope you wil subscribe to URGE and thats where they pounce on you. They dont want to pounce on you too soon and sour your experience.

By: TFoS_Fan

TFoS_Fan — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Interesting and I will probably update however I doubt it will take over from Itunes for me. I think using the browse button Itunes have made searching around your music collection perfect. Burning and ripping CDs also works well though to be honest I rarely do this anymore. Futhermore the program is stable and its look perfectly fine on a Windows PC though some extra skins would be nice. The only thing I don’t like about Itunes is there seems to be no program that can search and add album covers automatically for free. How good is wmp 11 for finding CD covers?

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

If you’ll notice WINPlayer 11’s browse feature is way better than iTunes so much so that it makes the browser in iTunes look like kids play;.

Updated story to answer those unanswered questions such as your TFos fan………..enjoy.

By: Goldmember

Goldmember — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Viva La Winamp!