Media Player sucks

Morlan · 4 Mar 2006 at 03:52

Media Player is great. Sometimes when you close it the music keeps on playing until you forcefully close it with task manager, :rolleyes:

same goes for porno videos - when you really need to close it there and then, the audio keeps on playing :mad:

. When you choose a new track, it sometimes takes 10 seconds to play the blasted thing. It hangs frequently for a few seconds for no reason. The search facility also hangs the whole program, fn useless. It completly bombs out when you try and play certain 'supported' video files.

When you're in the 'Album Artist' section of the tree, you type in the letters to find your artist and it suddenly hops right down to 'Playlists' for no reason.
This feature also fails to understand artists that begin with "The". When you want to delete a track, it takes forever. When you edit a group of tracks using the 'Advanced Tag Editor' it rarely actually edits them. There are countless other little bugs that make Media Player a horror to use.

Is it just me or does this program really suck ass?

edit: I'm using version 10. Is that the best you can do, Microsoft?

Morlan · 4 Mar 2006 at 04:08

Yeah, another intermittent thing I just noticed (which has been anoying me for the past year) is when you click on Media Player in the task bar to minimize it but it just won't minimize. You have to click on the minimize button on the top of MP. Little things like that really pee me off :mad:

I'm a fan of XP becuase it never crashes on me, haven't formated in 2 years. I also like the Media Player interface but it's just too slow and unreliable. I HAVE HAD ENOUGH.

Morlan · 4 Mar 2006 at 23:29

sjohal2006 said:
This is funny, got this problem yesterday.... but only occured the once.

MP10 is riddled with bugs. M$ aren't going to do anything about it because they're too busy working on MP for Vista. I look forward to it.

Morlan · 11 Mar 2006 at 06:14

A common occurance with MP these days. :mad:

Even deleting tracks takes about 30 seconds, editing metadata can take up to a few fn weeks. Fn useless piece of carp software. :mad:

I've tried reinstalling MP but no change. Is there a way to rebuild the database? Also, is there a way to 'cleanse' MP3 files? I know a lot of MP3s can harbour a lot of nonsense data that MP's pretty little head can't handle.

I've tried a few of these free MP3 players but they don't have the features that MP has.

I need:
Star ratings
Easily copy to MP3 player/CD
Windows taskbar buttons, or something similar
Tracks arranged much like MP10, like Windows Explorer tree

Anything you would recommend?

Morlan · 13 Mar 2006 at 20:30

I've just installed MP Classic 6.4. Plays everything I throw at it, and quickly too.

I've installed Foobar and MusikCube, While both seem pretty good and fast, neither have a mini control funtction. In MP10 I am able to minimise the program down to the Windows toolbar where I can control Play, Next, Prev, etc. Does anyone know of a way to add this type of feature to Foobar/MusikCube?

Thanks guys.