I have fairly large requirements for it, I used to use WMP 11 which was nearly perfect for my needs, but it would have been nice if it was faster...
Now that I installed win7, it automatically came with WMP12, and I hate it, it's SLOOOOOW with a large media library, when I open my music library and it displays all my tracks and I click one, it only adds that 1 song into the playlist rather than my whole library like WMP11 did, it often freezes for 5 seconds (to load) when searching for something or freezes completely, it takes ages to scan my media folders (it took far longer than WMP11 did), etc.
Now I want a media player that:
Can handle large amounts of music, think 1200+ artists, about 40GB of loseless, and about 80gb of 192kbit-320kbit mp3's. No freezing, no lagging, makes good use of resources ( I have 6GB of ram and a 3.2 ghz quad)
Downloads album art for them if they lack it. Downloads missing data like componist, etc...
Has a ''viewmode'' to look at all your individual tracks + album art.
Has a ''search'' box that searches and immediately displays results, eg. when I look at all my tracks, and when I type ''dee'' I want it to show everything with ''dee'' in it to or at least show ''did you mean deep purple'' .
Supported by Last.fm.
Can look at my library sorted per artist, per album and per track ( as in all my tracks on my pc).
Ideally, I want WMP11 with a bit of a speed update, but this is impossible to install in win 7 right
?
Tried I tunes a (looong) while ago but the search function was a bit rubbish back then, and iirc I couldn't look at my whole library of tracks in 1 scrollable window sorted by artist and subsorted by albums of that artist kinda like in WMP11/12. Like this:
And when I type ''pink'' it immediately filters out everything but pink floyd or any track with ''pink'' in it...
Yeah I'm really that used to WMP11 and I actually like the interface very very much, but I'm on Win7 now and 12 came with it, which constantly locks up/freezes/lags/etc and doesnt want to put ''all music'' into a playlist when I select a track from ''all music''. Hell, WMP11 even looked far nicer than wmp12 with aero...
Now that I installed win7, it automatically came with WMP12, and I hate it, it's SLOOOOOW with a large media library, when I open my music library and it displays all my tracks and I click one, it only adds that 1 song into the playlist rather than my whole library like WMP11 did, it often freezes for 5 seconds (to load) when searching for something or freezes completely, it takes ages to scan my media folders (it took far longer than WMP11 did), etc.
Now I want a media player that:
Can handle large amounts of music, think 1200+ artists, about 40GB of loseless, and about 80gb of 192kbit-320kbit mp3's. No freezing, no lagging, makes good use of resources ( I have 6GB of ram and a 3.2 ghz quad)
Downloads album art for them if they lack it. Downloads missing data like componist, etc...
Has a ''viewmode'' to look at all your individual tracks + album art.
Has a ''search'' box that searches and immediately displays results, eg. when I look at all my tracks, and when I type ''dee'' I want it to show everything with ''dee'' in it to or at least show ''did you mean deep purple'' .
Supported by Last.fm.
Can look at my library sorted per artist, per album and per track ( as in all my tracks on my pc).
Ideally, I want WMP11 with a bit of a speed update, but this is impossible to install in win 7 right
?Tried I tunes a (looong) while ago but the search function was a bit rubbish back then, and iirc I couldn't look at my whole library of tracks in 1 scrollable window sorted by artist and subsorted by albums of that artist kinda like in WMP11/12. Like this:
And when I type ''pink'' it immediately filters out everything but pink floyd or any track with ''pink'' in it...
Yeah I'm really that used to WMP11 and I actually like the interface very very much, but I'm on Win7 now and 12 came with it, which constantly locks up/freezes/lags/etc and doesnt want to put ''all music'' into a playlist when I select a track from ''all music''
. Hell, WMP11 even looked far nicer than wmp12 with aero...
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