*rant* I hate the new Windows Media Player!!

Fassa Albrecht · #1 04-26-2008, 02:53 PM

Seriously. I just downloaded the new version and it is without doubt the biggest heap of complete garbage I have ever come across.
When I booted it up half the library was missing and I ended up manually restoring over 100hrs of music.
Then when I wanted to listen to Def Leppard I went into the library and found myself going around in circles because some of my Leppard CDs were marked as metal and others as rock. It also couldn't find album info for some of my Depeche Mode singles.

Add to that the seriously annoying interface and the fact it deleted some of the songs and I'm losing my patience.

Anyone?

Bassic83 · #2 04-26-2008, 02:55 PM

Hey girl, it's Micro$lop, what do you expect?

I'm running a Mac now, and everything just works. It's not PC's fault. It's Mac's fault!

afinalfantasy · #3 04-26-2008, 02:55 PM

Windows Media Player is known to be garbage. Use iTunes.

Lalabadie · #4 04-26-2008, 02:55 PM

I wouldn't classify all of a group's songs under a single genre.

Fassa Albrecht · #5 04-26-2008, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Lalabadie

I wouldn't classify all of a group's songs under a single genre.

Yeah, well in one case under the genre headings it had cut an album in half- the first few tracks were one genre and the other was in another.

Sean S · #6 04-26-2008, 03:03 PM

iTunes or WinAmp for me if I'm on a PC.

**bassybill** · #7 04-26-2008, 03:22 PM

Winamp, no contest.

Lalabadie · #8 04-26-2008, 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fassa Albrecht

Yeah, well in one case under the genre headings it had cut an album in half- the first few tracks were one genre and the other was in another.

I understand what you want to do, but IMO this is done by filtering artist and album. If I want to listen to heavy rock, then I'll select it, and for example my Queens of the Stone Age album will be there, minus some songs, which are ballads.

Fassa Albrecht · #9 04-26-2008, 04:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lalabadie

I understand what you want to do, but IMO this is done by filtering artist and album. If I want to listen to heavy rock, then I'll select it, and for example my Queens of the Stone Age album will be there, minus some songs, which are ballads.

Still, it makes life easier if everything is in one place....

Fontaine · #10 04-26-2008, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by afinalfantasy

Windows Media Player is known to be garbage. Use iTunes.

+1

Baryonyx · #11 04-26-2008, 04:59 PM

If Def Leppard didn't have some albums that were metal and some that were rock you wouldn't have that problem!

Disco_Gee · #12 04-26-2008, 06:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fassa Albrecht

Seriously. I just downloaded the new version and it is without doubt the biggest heap of complete garbage I have ever come across.
When I booted it up half the library was missing and I ended up manually restoring over 100hrs of music.
Then when I wanted to listen to Def Leppard I went into the library and found myself going around in circles because some of my Leppard CDs were marked as metal and others as rock. It also couldn't find album info for some of my Depeche Mode singles.

Add to that the seriously annoying interface and the fact it deleted some of the songs and I'm losing my patience.

Anyone?

That is exactly why I don't bother using media player, or itunes, or any piece of software that expects to organise my 'library' of music. I stick my music in a folder structure that makes sense to me, and use winamp to play what I want to listen to. I find it much easier and I feel like I have total control. I really don't like the library structures that other programs use.

freakonaleash · #13 04-26-2008, 07:02 PM

Gave up on windows media player the big steaming pile of ***** that it is!
Winamp FTW FYI

DayoftheGreek · #14 04-26-2008, 07:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by afinalfantasy

Windows Media Player is known to be garbage. Use iTunes.

iTunes is just as trashy, if not more trashy, than WMP.

I have used Winamp most of my life but I use Foobar2000 now. Winamp is awesome for a little compact, easy to use player, but Foobar uses much less memory and is incredibly customizable.

Nino Valenti · #15 04-26-2008, 07:39 PM

I downloaded WMP11 when it 1st became available and I HATED it and downgraded to WMP10 with in a week.

Fassa Albrecht · #16 04-26-2008, 08:01 PM

I don't have this issue with my cassettes...I just find them, put them in my walkman and go!

Pilgrim · #17 04-26-2008, 08:03 PM

Windows Media Player makes no sense. It's the one thing MS makes that doesn't look or navigate like a Windows product. Their "library" approach is a huge pain in the butt. just let me open my files - I KNOW where they are.

And iTunes? Completely non-intuitive for PC users, and forces you to comb through level after level to find anything. I hate it.

Fassa Albrecht · #18 04-26-2008, 08:11 PM

The library is helpful at some points and useless at other times.

What makes it even more annoying is that for some CDs it finds the wrong information and then won't let you correct it, like when it was saying my Depeche Mode CD was the Australian Import version.

eedre · #19 04-26-2008, 08:26 PM

I use a media player based on how good the streaming radio stations on it are... therefore I use Winamp. iTunes has less selection, but the quality of the stations seems to be better. BUT it forces you to install an invasive little program called "Quicktime" with it.

ROON · #20 04-26-2008, 08:31 PM

Get WinAmp, there is no competition.

At first it's a big change, and you'll probably hate it, I did. I almost went back to using WMP, but all the glitches, bugs and horrid sound quality forced me back to WinAmp. My whole life up until a few years ago, I used WMP, and it was nothing but a pain in the arse that hung all the time. Been using WinAmp for around three years now and it has hung no more than two times.