Windows Media Player 11.

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Hi,

Just wondering, does anyone else find WMP 11 a pleasure to use? Compard to all the other WMP's, I say 11 is the best yet. So easy to use and does exacly what I want. Nice user star rating system for all my music as well, and just very good. :cool:

I have tried other players, just can never get used to them at all. :(
 
Ice On Fire said:
Hi,

Just wondering, does anyone else find WMP 11 a pleasure to use? Compard to all the other WMP's, I say 11 is the best yet. So easy to use and does exacly what I want. Nice user star rating system for all my music as well, and just very good. :cool:

I have tried other players, just can never get used to them at all. :(
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Yeah, I have to install WMP11 everytime I reinstall windows as I can't stand 10 anymore. Best feature for me is the media library and all different views available so I can clearly see which artists/albums I have :)
 
Ya, that's pretty cool as well. However some of my music isn't named properly, so that is a little messed. :(
 
I've actually moved from Winamp to WMP11. I find it excellent at what it does and it looks brilliant. I've had a few issues with it which are slightly annoying, but I guess it's to be expected considering its a Beta.

Plus, being able to control my music while I'm lying in bed on the other side of the room from the MCE remote control is a plus :D
 
Ice On Fire said:
Ya, that's pretty cool as well. However some of my music isn't named properly, so that is a little messed. :(
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I have this handy tool that came with my sound card (X-fi) that cleans up the audio tags by searching for the songs using an online database of nearly all the songs out there so the media library is all as it should be now. Do a search as there may be other tools out there that will do the same job.
 
If the ID3 tags are messed up, try downloading a program called ID3-TagIt. It'll search an online database of albums and sort out the tags for albums automatically.
 
WMP11 confuses me, how do i make it just play all my music on shuffle? i seem to only be able to play one album at a time without making a playlist.

i'll stick to itunes
 
Rebelius said:
WMP11 confuses me, how do i make it just play all my music on shuffle? i seem to only be able to play one album at a time without making a playlist.

i'll stick to itunes
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Just go into your music folder, and press play all. Then just press the shuffle button at the bottom of the player. :D
 
killer_uk said:
Well, I haven't got a clue on how to use this program. Its far too confusing for me :p

Sorry I can't be of more help :(
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No problem dude, will have another crack at it again tonight.
 
Musicbrainz is a great utility for naming & tagging your MP3's, it also searches against a huge online database and I have about 10 out of over 2000 songs that it hasn't tagged (they're pretty obscure songs anyway). You can specify different ways to have your files renamed as well, which is very handy. Check it out :)
 
So how does it find out the names for your songs, if you don't know them?
As I have lots of songs I don't know the name or artist to?
 
Ice On Fire said:
So how does it find out the names for your songs, if you don't know them?
As I have lots of songs I don't know the name or artist to?
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If you're using ID3Tag-IT, Navigate to a folder containing an album in the Navigation Pane down the left hand side. Then in the main window, highlight all the tracks from said album, press F4, then click on 'Search by Files'. This will query the database for albums which have the same number of files, same length tracks and so on.

It'll return the results, most of the time it'll match the album, but sometimes it'll return more than one album from different artists. Select which album you want from the list, and then press the 'Write Information' button. This will write all the information to the tags.

From there, all you've gotta do is highlight all the tracks again, right click on any of them, go to 'Tag v2 Functions', and click on 'Tag v2 -> Filename'. This will then take the information out of the tag, and rename the filename with it. You can select how you want the filename to be titled too, i.e. Artist,Track Number, Title, etc.


Hope that's not too confusing. I'll take some screenshots if needed, but it's a great little app which will help sort out your MP3's in no time.
 
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