Windows Media Player 11
 

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Mind you it is beta.

what features does it have over #10?

mp4 support? Please tell me it has mp4 support.

I havn't seen much yet but for the most part it has an easier interface and the original features are tweaked up so they are better.

I cant say it does. It does a wierd automatic media search to add things to your library and I hasn't got any of my mp4 music.

mp4 support would piss me off... i like having all my music in the same format, at the moment WMP can remind me when things need converting :P

sounds good though.

What i really need for my mp3 collection is an external hard drive. almost half my computer is taken up by music at the mo, and thats not including any i own on CD :S

I will download it only because I have a crappy version of Windows Media Player(Windows Media Player 7) LOL

^errm you probably cant. seeing as you have 7, it would have automatically asked you to update to 10 if you had a supporting OS, whats your OS?

downloading new versions doesnt mess up the library does it? i cant remember last time i did it..

^it shouldnt

Get winamp, it's better

Not really.

Having used both, I prefer WMP.

I just downgraded. 11 is a complete piece of shit. Don't waste your time with it.

i downgraded a day after i got WMP11.

haha, I guess I'm lucky I read the rest of the thread before going to upload it!

I've had it for sometime now and it blows just as much as the older versions.

WinAmp is far far far superior to Windows Media Player in regards to almost everything.

And if W.M.P has something WinAmp doesn't, I'm sure you could find a plug-in for Winamp to make it possible.

Such as a good interface, better playlist functionality, and better file management/tagging?

Yes.

So why bother with plug-ins when WMP already has it to start with?

Because WinAmp is a generally better program.
Especially next to WMP11 which is so unstable it's laughable.

And, there are a lot of "Anti-Windows/Microsoft" people out there...so this is a happy alternative.

I didn't find WMP11 unstable, just incredibly buggy and I found that they had completely bastardized the navigation to the point where it was just cumbersome.

But saying **** Microsoft and unsupported claims are a fine way of building an argument.

wmp 11 works fine to my high standards

It was interesting enough to keep me using it over iTunes (back when I made this thread). Now I'm back to iTunes, its just a better interface.

itunes takes up processing power

27,000k for me. Azurus is like 42,000k and firefox is like 81,000k.