Windows Mediaplayer 11 is out!

mc_bob · 17 May 2006 at 07:24

willd58 said:
How to uninstall, the libary in WMP 11 is terrible!

Lmao exactly. Just go to system restore, thats what I done. It should have created a restore point.

MC_Bob

puppy · 18 May 2006 at 12:57

If you have a large music collection, the library in WMP11 is *terrible* - it forces you to click through 2 or three times before you can see the tracks on a particular album - just nasty. It looks pretty alright, but the useability is absolute crap.

Also, still *no sign* of podcast support - get with the 21st century MS!!

csmager · 18 May 2006 at 13:01

puppy said:
If you have a large music collection, the library in WMP11 is *terrible* - it forces you to click through 2 or three times before you can see the tracks on a particular album - just nasty. It looks pretty alright, but the useability is absolute crap.

On the contrary, i thought it was absolutely brilliant. I don't often look for specific songs though, i put albums on. Makes it far easier to browse through than looking at acres of text.

If you want to search for tracks, use the Songs part of the library, surely? Then search as you type using the search box.

Minority · 18 May 2006 at 13:02

Not impressed, it displays an album 3 times as though it thinks it's a seperate album. The tags on the MP3's are fine though.

csmager · 18 May 2006 at 13:03

Minority said:
Not impressed, it displays an album 3 times as though it thinks it's a seperate album. The tags on the MP3's are fine though.

Most likely the 'Album Artist' is different on each track. Happened to me in Media Center a few times.

AJUK · 18 May 2006 at 13:19

Downloaded and tried it out and below is my comprehensive review:

Meh :/

blairw · 18 May 2006 at 13:31

I really like it, libary view is good, and even songs view is better than the old one, as the album art breaks it up a little

lightbulb · 18 May 2006 at 14:17

benjo said:
Installed it this morning, didnt have any problems

Looks loads better aswell

Anyone know if there is a way to get the album artist and track to be displayed all the time next to the album art in the top right corner? Currently only the album art, rating and track title are displayed until the cursor is moved to the album art area which is when the artist name appears. Also, maybe I'm going blind, but the green text in the playlist (currently playing) isn't as visible as a big highlighted bar would have been, as in WMP10.

Bony Maloney · 18 May 2006 at 14:20

How do you include the playlist with the vizualisation window as above?

lightbulb · 18 May 2006 at 14:37

Switch to the Now Playing view
click on the Now Playing button to bring up the menu where you should be able to select a visualization and 'Show List Pane' to display the playlist

dalex · 18 May 2006 at 14:46

i found it on softpedia , not really an illegal download site ?
dave

csmager · 18 May 2006 at 14:48

dalex said:
i found it on softpedia , not really an illegal download site ?
dave

It's been released now (as of yesterday, i believe). You can download it direct from MS, if you wish.

Bony Maloney · 18 May 2006 at 16:10

lightbulb said:
Switch to the Now Playing view
click on the Now Playing button to bring up the menu where you should be able to select a visualization and 'Show List Pane' to display the playlist

Thanks

Keylow · 18 May 2006 at 16:15

Is there any way to get rid of this damn album art? I want my good old list of text :/

turbotoaster · 18 May 2006 at 16:23

just installed it, its ok(ish) but looking though your songs takes ages which i dont like

willd58 · 18 May 2006 at 16:26

Keylow said:
Is there any way to get rid of this damn album art? I want my good old list of text :/

Same here, i miss the old simple list of artists down the right hand side in the libary.

csmager · 18 May 2006 at 16:29

willd58 said:
Same here, i miss the old simple list of artists down the right hand side in the libary.

You can change the view to remove the album art and show you streams and streams of artist names/album names/song names etc. Personally, I think it's far easier to spot Album covers than to read lots of text.

Tommy B · 18 May 2006 at 16:58

I wish MS and Apple would let iTunes and WMP talk with eachother. Half of the albums have no album art, and AAC files don't play.

Omac · 19 May 2006 at 00:13

The player is nice but the little "mini black toolbar" looks well out of place in the silver taskbar.

Same player, just BIG buttons. lol

vintage-x · 23 May 2006 at 17:45

I didnt think I`d like this player after seeing the pictures of the libery but god was I wrong I absoultly love it took me 2 mins to download install and setup and all my music is there in the libary with the album art.

I love the fact that you can paste album art onto any thing that dosent have it so all my live stuff that you cant buy now has preview picture which I got from google