Windows Media Player 11 Beta

**Pyroshock** · 07-21-2006, 11:02 PM

Anyone downloaded this yet? It's kind of a let down. Just WMP10 with a makeover, so it's not going to make any Winamp people want to switch to WMP.

But it's an extremely good makeover, I might add. Maybe because I love black and blue.

Screenies:

Consumes about the same amount of memory as Winamp.

I realize that WMP11 is only a beta, but the two flaws I've found so far are kind of annoying.

1: It likes to randomly exit out. It's happened twice so far.

2: After the installation finished, it said something along the lines of "Windows Media Player failed to install", even though it's here and my start menu and working.

Whee, it exited out again just now.

So yeah, I'm going to wait for the official version comes out, because I can't stand the exiting out.

Whee, another exit-out.

Edit: Oh, and it doesn't want to add my entire music folder to the library.

trixster · 07-23-2006, 02:19 PM

I actually use both, I use Windows Media Player to rip cds and winamp for everything else! The new version is alot more organized and theres a repeat button!

**Squeek** · 07-23-2006, 05:23 PM

I still hate Winamp as it's an AOL subsidary, so I still use WMP. I sincerely hope they clean it up as about 90% of free media players out there are much better... they just don't work with Last.FM.

trixster · 07-23-2006, 05:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Squeek

I still hate Winamp as it's an AOL subsidary, so I still use WMP. I sincerely hope they clean it up as about 90% of free media players out there are much better... they just don't work with Last.FM.

Wait, did you mean WMP doesn't work with Last.FM? Because actually it does!

**Pyroshock** · 07-23-2006, 06:01 PM

He means the other media players don't work with Last.fm.

I think that WMP, Winamp and iTunes are the only ones that can use Audioscrobbler.

And trixster, WMP10 does have a repeat button. It's in the bottom right next to the song time.

**Squeek** · 07-23-2006, 06:29 PM

I've been using WMP for my scrobbling since day one. I hate iYunes because it's bloatware and I only have it for my iPod. I hate Winamp because AOL took it over.

I'm just hoping new versions of WMP are faster and have better tagging.

**Snapps** · 07-23-2006, 06:33 PM

How come my better than sliced beats was a different cover and had one less track >__>

**Squeek** · 07-23-2006, 06:48 PM

Well, looks like I'm not using this.

"You must have SP2 installed to use this"

Why? I don't get it. I don't want to "upgrade" to your piece of crap. There's barely a difference between SP1 and SP2 in terms of code. So why can't they do it.

**Pyroshock** · 07-23-2006, 11:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snapps

How come my better than sliced beats was a different cover and had one less track >__>

Because I like this cover better than the official one. SGX gave out the other covers people made on his website.

And your BTSB has one less track? That's strange because if you bought yours you should have one more track than me, because I just downloaded them off of the site.

Anyways, I eventually system restored back to before I installed WMP11 because the closing outs were too frequent and got extremely annoying.

07-21-2006, 11:02 PM	#1
Pyroshock ε=-dΦ/dt Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: College Station, TX Age: 33 Posts: 1,170	Windows Media Player 11 Beta Anyone downloaded this yet? It's kind of a let down. Just WMP10 with a makeover, so it's not going to make any Winamp people want to switch to WMP. But it's an extremely good makeover, I might add. Maybe because I love black and blue. Screenies: Consumes about the same amount of memory as Winamp. I realize that WMP11 is only a beta, but the two flaws I've found so far are kind of annoying. 1: It likes to randomly exit out. It's happened twice so far. 2: After the installation finished, it said something along the lines of "Windows Media Player failed to install", even though it's here and my start menu and working. Whee, it exited out again just now. So yeah, I'm going to wait for the official version comes out, because I can't stand the exiting out. Whee, another exit-out. Edit: Oh, and it doesn't want to add my entire music folder to the library. __________________ http://pyroshock.bandcamp.com http://soundcloud.com/pyroshock

07-23-2006, 02:19 PM	#2
trixster FFR Player Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 8	Re: Windows Media Player 11 Beta I actually use both, I use Windows Media Player to rip cds and winamp for everything else! The new version is alot more organized and theres a repeat button!

07-23-2006, 05:23 PM	#3
Squeek let it snow~ Join Date: Jan 2004 Age: 39 Posts: 14,444	Re: Windows Media Player 11 Beta I still hate Winamp as it's an AOL subsidary, so I still use WMP. I sincerely hope they clean it up as about 90% of free media players out there are much better... they just don't work with Last.FM.

07-23-2006, 06:01 PM	#5
Pyroshock ε=-dΦ/dt Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: College Station, TX Age: 33 Posts: 1,170	Re: Windows Media Player 11 Beta He means the other media players don't work with Last.fm. I think that WMP, Winamp and iTunes are the only ones that can use Audioscrobbler. And trixster, WMP10 does have a repeat button. It's in the bottom right next to the song time. __________________ http://pyroshock.bandcamp.com http://soundcloud.com/pyroshock

07-23-2006, 06:29 PM	#6
Squeek let it snow~ Join Date: Jan 2004 Age: 39 Posts: 14,444	Re: Windows Media Player 11 Beta I've been using WMP for my scrobbling since day one. I hate iYunes because it's bloatware and I only have it for my iPod. I hate Winamp because AOL took it over. I'm just hoping new versions of WMP are faster and have better tagging.

07-23-2006, 06:33 PM	#7
Snapps NO DOUBT GET LOUD Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: California Age: 35 Posts: 5,650	Re: Windows Media Player 11 Beta How come my better than sliced beats was a different cover and had one less track >__>

07-23-2006, 06:48 PM	#8
Squeek let it snow~ Join Date: Jan 2004 Age: 39 Posts: 14,444	Re: Windows Media Player 11 Beta Well, looks like I'm not using this. "You must have SP2 installed to use this" Why? I don't get it. I don't want to "upgrade" to your piece of crap. There's barely a difference between SP1 and SP2 in terms of code. So why can't they do it.

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