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Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP Released

bink.nu — Windows Media Player 11 offers great new ways to store and enjoy all of your digital media. It's easier than ever to access all of your music, video, pictures,

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  • Tekmaven, on 10/12/2007, -30/+38I can't wait to get this installed on my machines!
    • theratboy, on 10/12/2007, -93/+27WMP sucks, jeez
    • TGMD, on 10/12/2007, -12/+72Okay WMP 11 is awesome. IF you have an extensive video collection like me you'll love WMP 11... I use itunes for music and WMP for my movie collection...

      Don't Knock it until you try it...
    • truegodofwar, on 10/12/2007, -51/+93Why would you want a bloated player when you could have an opensource player like VLC?

      No codecs to install and it will play anything you throw at it, even the newer .flv (flash) videos on the internet. Rip DVD's and play them directly from ISO files or play them directly. No system reboot, no long loading times...it just works. Plus no ***** WGA or DRM *****!!!

      http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
    • SpacemanSpiff, on 10/12/2007, -10/+113@truegod

      Because VLC doesn't offer a good front end. Sure, it plays everything smoothly and without a problem, but if offers nothing as far as organization and access go.
    • zybch, on 10/12/2007, -15/+52Because VLC still isn't as polished as it should be. No matter where your loyalties lie, it still feels like an old shareware app.
      Also, though I haven't tried it, I'm pretty sure that VLC will not be able to play/authenticate any of the DRM'ed stuff that many people have.
    • TGMD, on 10/12/2007, -8/+34I use VLC too, but when you have 1000+ videos and you need to organize it/ view it WMP 11 is simply the best IMO, just like how iTunes is the best for massive music collections...
    • vaguelyrandom, on 10/12/2007, -21/+6If i can't copy and paste, it ISN'T easy access to my music!
    • MrPig, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Thank god there is an x64 version - there wasn't of the beta.
    • steelmaverick, on 10/12/2007, -5/+46Bypass WGA Check

      Direct Link

      http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx
    • kelbear, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Yeah, don't get me wrong, I love VLC and use it extensively, but it is just not convenient for my use. Particularly the playlist. No love for the two windows for 1 video thing either.
    • Evoguy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30WMP 11 is actually pretty awesome. Combine it with URGE and I can honestly say the whole interface, music store, content, library management, and device sync features are on par or better than iTunes for the first time. Kudos to MS getting this one right, hope they integrate the whole Zune flow into WMP 11 as seamlessly as iPod/iTunes.
    • fyre2012, on 10/12/2007, -68/+9What the *****? This thread seems to have been taken over by Microsoft SPAM BOTS!

      Ok, repeat after me: Windows Media Player Sucks... I will not install Windows Media Player...

      Seriously, when there are SO many awesome options for organizing, etc. music, why in the name of The Internet would anyone choose to use Windows Media Player? (or windows anything, but that's a different story)

      And URGE? Like, ***** off, ok? Who the hell actually uses that, let alone tells others it's great... oh i know... MICROSOFT SPAM BOTS DO!
    • jeolmeun, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17Anti-Micro-Soft SPAM BOT?!?
    • vhcougar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18I agree with evoguy. I've always thought WMP's "Que-It-Up" drag-and-drop sidebar playlist is an incredibly good idea and implementation that's sorely missing in iTunes...
    • mtron, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8@fyre2012

      have you even tried it?
      A friend recommended the beta to me and I decided to give it a try just for the hec of it, and I was pretty impressed. Initially it was crashing on me quite a bit and kind of pissed me off, but after it finished indexing all my media, it's been stable.
    • AirRaven, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1@TGMD

      >just like how iTunes is the best for massive music collections...

      Not technically true. I'd say that's a rather uninformed opinion. I've found MusikCube to be a lot better at handling large music collections ( http://musikcube.com/ )



      That aside, this doesn't look too bad at all. I'm curious to know whether this update involves any changes for the WMV codec- otherwise I'm tempted to just stick with un-WGA'd WMP10. No point in changing anyway- I just use MusikCube for music and VLC/MPC for what few videos I do watch. The only reason for WMP is embedded videos.
    • Evoguy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6fyre2012: Well you sure don't seem biased at all. Have you actually used WMP 11? Or, are you just repeating some retarded rhetoric because that's just what you do? And URGE, I've used it since the first WMP 11 beta, and yes.. it is actually good. It has a ton of content, I like how fast it searches for stuff, it has cool dynamic playlists, it has movie and tv-show playlists which are sometimes entertaining (saves me from searching around for song names), it has embedded music video support, internet radio, a nice embedded artist bio section, I like the 'similar artists' features, list goes on and on. Try it before you knock it. Although.. sentiments like that are probably lost on people like you.
    • exsst, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3SpacemanSpiff

      It does offer a good front end.
      When you open it up, right click in any part of the movie and switch to the new default skin.
    • Cerberus047, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10i love wmp 11 compared to 10 it just blows it out of the water... album art is soo easy to get now and the organisation is incredible, its not that bloated at all... (for me at least) and all the options are soo awesome!!! worth a download best windows media player yet
    • jeolmeun, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1The controls centered cuts off the rotating description and the seek bar is thin.
    • davidod87, on 10/12/2007, -9/+6It now goes to the library when starting, just to ***** piss me off.
    • fyre2012, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3As a linux system administrator, yes i'm heavily biased. I know better.

      I havn't been happy with a* MS product since Windows 95. And I was only happy because my network at the time upgraded from win 3.1 and netware.

      * I'll admit, however, that MS Office 2003 is ok. I can't stand the load time of OO.o, (java!), and i enjoy how Word just pops up damn near instantly.


      Great, so WMP11 has alot of nifty features that iTunes already has. Wooo... URGE!! that's different.

      Am I being synical, yes. Have I tried it... YES. Do i just clamour on becauase i don't like MS? Sometimes, but I at least tried it out before complaining.

      It doesn't offer anything unique to me. I, personally, enjoy Winamp 2.9 on my Windows machines (YES! I actually use Windows every now and then!)
    • RandomGuySteve, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3I've been using the beta now for a while and its done nothing but piss me off.
      Random lockup as it loads each thumbnail for 20-30 gigs of movies (thousands of clips)
      Folders suddenly start arranging themselves by last used instead of alphabetically, against my preference. (at least when trying to open something, they're fine in explorer)
      I used my old library system extensively in WMP10 and this one sucks. I don't want categories, I want columns. I want compact, concise information about my media. In that respect, WMP11 fails.. miserably.



    • jdonner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Randomguysteve said: "I've been using the beta now for a while and its done nothing but piss me off. Random lockup as it loads each thumbnail for 20-30 gigs of movies (thousands of clips)"

      Look up what the word Beta means in the context of software development, because I think you need to educate yourself.
  • luish, on 10/12/2007, -10/+22Downloading it now ! :)

    lotta MS releases lately :)
  • TheJosher, on 10/12/2007, -4/+86Skip the blogspam.

    Direct link: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/download/download.aspx
  • hmemcpy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27FINALLY it fully supports Windows x64. Perfect!
    • EztliNahua, on 10/12/2007, -30/+1LIES AND HERESY.

      "Setup detected that you are running: Windows 2003 Server
      There is no download available for this operating system. To get Windows Media Player 10, please go to Windows Update and install Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later."
    • darkstar949, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17@EztliNahua - Why do you want to run media player on a server anyway - SBS 2003 doesn't even install it by default for good reason.
    • Litespeed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Some people use Server 2003 as a desktop OS.
    • H3g3m0n, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32003 Server actually makes quite a nice (well nice as far as windows goes) desktop system I used it before XP was out, also enabling the server scheduler (I think its an option on XP) apparently improves games since it lowers the number of switches between processes allowing the game more CPU time.

      While I can understand using Windows on the desktop, I don't see why anyone would want to run Windows as a server =P
    • daza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't understand H3g3m0n, are you saying you used Windows 2003 Server before XP was released? But Windows XP was released in 2001?
    • conchchowder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"FINALLY it fully supports Windows x64. Perfect! " Fully? Then why is it listed as an x86 platform in SysInfo and under Processes as a 32bit program? anything with *32 is NOT x64 supported. WMP11 is ONLY supported as a 64 bit program in Vista NOT XP x64.
  • hmemcpy, on 10/12/2007, -28/+2Damn, commented twice. Please bury.
  • bludo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+39I think the media library in WMP11 is one of the best thing Microsoft has ever done.

    I've tried itunes, foobar2000, media monkey, winamp, but nothing matches its ergonomy and ease to manage your music library. I've never thought in the past that I will ever use Windows media player to play my mp3s.
    • Eleo, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12I hope you're right, because I remember previous versions being fairly abysmal.
    • Sturmur, on 10/12/2007, -21/+22You've obviously have not used Foobar2000. You can create what ever kind of interface you want with it. It is completely open.

      Can WMP11 do that?

      Examples:

      http://img75.imageshack.us/my.php?image=foobarmi2.jpg
      http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sfoobarv2ge3.jpg
      http://sv1.letmehost.com/sv1/21/foo_2006-10-28.png

      That is just a couple of examples. Basically, with a little bit of knowledge of how foobar works, you can do pretty much anything.

      It is as stable as a rock and barely hogs resources.
      Plays anything.
      It has a massive library of user created plugins, including an iPod plugin.
      etc.
      etc.

      Basically the perfect music player.
    • ostracize, on 10/12/2007, -9/+8Amarok's media management capabilities are far superior to WMP in my opinion.
    • ArnoldTPants, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7>Sturmur
      >http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sfoobarv2ge3.jpg

      Do you have a link showing how to make foobar look like that?
    • Sturmur, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Hey,

      Unfortunately the author (tool++) has just made this style and has not yet posted how to make your foobar as such. Refer to this thread to a wide variety of foobar styles:
      http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=43077&st=3900

      Make sure to look into the 3rd party plugins forum for foobar on configuring foobar to meet your needs perfectly.

      It make take some time to delve into the subject, but spending 3-4hours on an application that you listen to your music on will pay off in the long run.

      Make sure to check out the Channel Mixer and Dolby Headphone wrapping plugins for listening to your music with your headphones.
    • dliberty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9sturmur, those foobar examples are pretty cool, but you have to be a ***** programmer to customize an interface like that.
      See, this kind of attitude is exactly what brought MS to where they are today: USABILITY. Some people just have a hard time understanding that term.
    • Sturmur, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I'm no programmer, and I customized my own style from one of tool++'s other templates. It wasn't that hard to do.

      The majority of the digg crowd would be able to do what I can do. It's not that hard.
    • mavere, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"USABILITY. Some people just have a hard time understanding that term.'

      "The majority of the digg crowd would be able to do what I can do. It's not that hard."

      You just proved his point. It's not that it's easy to change foobar2k's UI (according to you--ticking a box is easy; this ain't), it's that almost all non-geeks expect a program to work almost perfectly once opened w/o any user intervention.

      ...I think that for the near future, Microsoft's position won't be threatened much by open-source geeks.
    • Sturmur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2true, but prove how much of the digg crowd is 'non-geeks'. I posted this rebuttal not on netscape.com, but on digg.com

      For the masses of people that frequent digg.com, foobar2k is the way to go.
    • conchchowder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0How is losing the rights to music you have bought, the BEST thing M$ has ever done?
  • TheJosher, on 10/12/2007, -30/+8Rapidshare mirror: http://rapidshare.com/files/1340259/wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe
    • zybch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Whats the point? There is none of the WGA/validation crap required to download from the MS link (only later), and MS have some of the fattest pipes/tubes out there so you'll get it faster from MS than anywhere else.
    • TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12heh what a shameless way to get premium points
  • hmemcpy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11Betanews mirror:

    x86:
    http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Windows_Media_Player_for_Windows_XP_32bit/954180977/2

    x64:
    http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Windows_Media_Player_for_Windows_XP_64bit/954180977/4
  • mrSimon, on 10/12/2007, -8/+30Awesome........ oh hold on, WGA.......... Not so awesome.
    • Tordenflesk, on 10/18/2007, -5/+35Just extract it with 7Zip, then run wmp11.exe and wmfdist11.exe
      No WGA for you!
    • MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -2/+7Well done. Thanks!

      And 7Zip looks way better than winrar. Good looking out.
    • GleepGlop2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10er, extracting and running those 2 exe's didnt work for me. it said it was expecting version 10 where version 11 was found...
    • Escamillo, on 10/12/2007, -10/+7Damn, just how many of you guys are running pirated versions of Windows anyway?
    • MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -3/+2@Gleepglop

      Extracting or running? Just to make sure, you are: using 7Zip to unzip http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Windows_Media_Player_for_Windows_XP_32bit/954180977/2 (if you've got 32x windows xp) then youre running wmp11.exe and then wmfdist11.exe, right? You're not trying to use 7Zip to extract the latter two executables are you?
    • Darrelc, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Same here... anyone?
    • MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -3/+1Oh crap, I see what you mean Gleepglop.

      I thought you were having trouble installing WMP11, but you're having trouble running it as I am too.

      Anyone know what's up?
    • whozyodaddy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I installed the x64 version and received the same error. What I did was reboot my computer and no more error message!

      BTW, I extracted the .exe using WinRAR.
    • Darrelc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2when it asks you to download it from ms do so, extract and run wmp11.exe -worked for me.
    • MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -2/+2Okay, it's working for me now.

      All I did was install the security update for WMP10 windows auto update wanted me to and then I restarted and everything was peachy.
    • drizek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I think everyone on this site that doesnt have a dell/hp/whatever that is using windows is using a pirated copy. Im running a pirated copy of xp on my dell laptop just for the hell of it.
  • latour, on 10/12/2007, -40/+8http://amarok.kde.org/ :)
  • mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18its pretty awesome... i like it better than itunes, but too bad it can't play itunes songs and synch to my ipod... damn apple...
    • Ramble, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15it can, WMP11 (at least in vista) supports any codec you have installed on your system for it.
    • mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11@ Ramble, even the DRM'd songs?
    • Darrelc, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2Burn and reimport. its not elegant but its a solution at least.
  • Willow01, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10Well you know if you actually bought....or have a decent crack that makes the WGA go away you wouldn't need to worry about it now would you?
    • Raztax, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12You do realise that WGA and DRM have nothing to do with each other right?
  • Fracture98, on 10/12/2007, -19/+11I'm not touching it. No telling what Digital Rights Molestation code rides in with it.

    I'll stick with Media Player Classic, thanks.
    • pathy, on 10/12/2007, -24/+6Damn right!

      I bet this thing will scan your computer and delete any unDRMed tracks!

      I'm damn sure the media PLAYER will ship with DRM, because, you know, they don't put the DRM on files.
  • zeeta6, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31Please stop linking to and digging blog sites.
    • OhJay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I admit that this particular story was rather thin, but there's a vast difference between linking to usable sites like Bink.nu and Jim Bob's AdSense magnet hosted off of blogspot.com.
  • rayblasdel, on 10/12/2007, -14/+5How is this new, it was released this past summer. I downloaded it in August when I stated using the Urge music store, which requires WMP11.
    • Otto, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7That one was beta. It is now not in beta anymore.

      I tried WMP11 Beta for a while, but it consistantly crashed when adding files to my library. Not immedately, it'd spend a couple hours finding files and *then* it would crash. So I reverted it back to WMP10, which had no such problems.
    • Darrelc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5They were beta's, this is the final I assume.
  • sporb, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4where is the cracked one with no validation check?
  • musntSurfatWork, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2I just press play on my Sanyo Walkman. Proven technologies don't give me aneurysms.
  • Sven2000, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Can it play incomplete wmv downloads?
  • joe90210, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2:bowdown:
  • B0bSalco, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1So I've had this installed on my computer since mid-may and have never looked back.
    It has not been beta for some time now.

    Question therefore: Why is this article new?
    • AirRaven, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3On the contrary- as has been said several times before in this, the software was still in beta until now.
    • B0bSalco, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0OK I downloaded the new file and sure enough it's different to that I downloaded in may, but why does my current version not say it's beta in my windows media player, and that there are no updates available?

      I use WMP a lot, and if I really have to say that if it was a beta this whole time, it was one of the most stable betas I have ever seen, ever, it worked beautifully at all times, so kudos to microsoft.
  • jsp123, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Now I can hear the rest of my music library since the shuffle now works...
  • xtr3m, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1The link on microsoft.com says that this is Beta 2.
  • bs0l, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I have Windows XP Media Center 2002 and it says I need the update rollup 2 for the 2005 edition - In other words, I can't install it. Any ideas?
  • glowsticky, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Cool beans; I always dugg the WMP. Time to give it a whirl.
  • mesoed, on 10/12/2007, -9/+8Still no podcast support = Not interested

    Maybe in WMP v.43?
  • generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Everyone that's trying to get links that bypass WGA know they STILL have to do the WGA validation to even install it right? That is unless you know the super secret easy way of getting around that...
    • NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Work for a corporation and get a real illegal copy.
    • Coffeedemon, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Do tell...
    • Darrelc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Which is? Extract it and run wmfdist and wmp11.exe? I did that and it says "expecting version 10.xxxxx and found 11.xxxx"
    • generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3K I'll be nice and tell. It is so easy Microsoft should be ashamed for not thinking about it.

      Just right click the installer and pick extract. You will then get the individual installers and you can install them one by one bypassing the main installer and the WGA check.

      You might need WinZIP, WinRAR, 7zip, or some other archiving program though. Not sure if Windows can do it itself.
    • whozyodaddy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1@ "I did that and it says "expecting version 10.xxxxx and found 11.xxxx""

      I received that same error. Then I rebooted and no more error message!
  • LeeVal, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Are you kidding me, first you got to download WGA plug in, install that then you got to download the GenuineCheck program get a code form that and copy it into a box only then can you download it, then you've got to install the program which has another WGA check.
  • ace5p1d0r, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Yeah the link on the front page of Microsoft says its still Beta 2, but if you actually go to the download page all Beta stuff has been removed.

    Yes I would say VLC is better. But you have to have Windows Media Player (lets be honest) so you may as well have the latest version. Does VLC have a player for embedded media in a website? No. Shutp and download :p
    • AirRaven, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4>Does VLC have a player for embedded media on a website?

      Yes.
  • Hindu_Wardrobe, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3Hasn't this been out for awhile now? Or was that a beta? Whatever, I don't pay much attention to WMP.
    I like musikCube. It's a nice, fast, open source music player that supports lots of formats (mp3, ogg, flac, wma, m4a, etc). Might want to check it out. http://www.musikcube.com
    • Hindu_Wardrobe, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Whoops, just read that this is a final release. Sorry about that. :)
    • hamstereater, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Musikcube is awesome.
  • NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10Winamp. It really wips the lamas ass.
    Man I cant live without my milkdrop.
  • anomalya, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3best setup is:
    jetaudio vx
    g-force platnium visualizer
    flac music
    • MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -2/+3G-force is cool, but it's a system hog and takes too long to start up even when you've purchased the gold program.

      Windows Media Center visualizations are pretty nice, I wish those would be released for WMP.
  • MrObjectional, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Bah. They lost me at WMP9. Whose idea was is to change the UI to make things even further away from eachother?

    And is it just me, or does shiny not always equal better? I wanna play a movie without thinking about glare from the shiny GUI buttons!
    • jeolmeun, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Full screen with show controls in full screen off.
  • dirq, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6I got WMP 11 beta a while ago and am pretty disappointed with the GUI. Things are moved all around and are really hard to find. I'll check out the final release and maybe they fixed somethings. Try burning a CD from some MP3s or opening a list of ALL your MP3s - you'll see what I mean.
    • generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5The final GUI is not changed much from the beta. It's still that super hard to use Vista minimalist crap. I immediately switched it to skin mode using the Corporate skin.

      Also we have yet another example of a valid opinion being modded down by digg users just cuz they disagree...
    • B0bSalco, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I for one really like the "minimalist crap", it's becoming more and more important to me that my software looks stylish.

      Although with this new version as opposed to the last beta there seems to be two small white horns at both top corners of the GUI. Anybody else notice this?
  • markp93, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10the install doesn't even require a restart.. how 'bout that.
  • LEDDY, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1w00t.... better than 10
    • fastsix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Nigel: Eleven...eleven...eleven....
      Marty: ..and the previous version went to ten....
      Nigel: Exactly.

      Marty: Does that mean it's...better? Is it any better?
      Nigel: Well, it's one better, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most...most blokes, you know, will be playing ten. You're on ten here...all the way up...all the way up....
      Marty: Yeah....
      Nigel: ...all the way up. You're on ten on your music player...where can you go from there? Where?
      Marty: I don't know....
      Nigel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is if we need that extra..
      push over the cliff...you know what we do?
      Marty: Use eleven?
      Nigel: Eleven. Exactly. One better.
  • fflush, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/06/13/install-windows-media-player-11-bypass-windows-genuine-advantage-wga-validation-workaround/
  • H3g3m0n, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4"Your operating system is not currently supported by Windows Media Player."

    Not surprisingly no Linux support although interesting that they bothered to detect it and the 'currently' wording makes it sound possible =P
    • Darrelc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8No *****, _Windows_ media player. see a clue in the title?
    • davidmackey, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0hahahahahahaha @ H3g3m0n
  • lysdexia, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2It look great, works great and that'll do for me - it's difficult to understand why people get so angry about software they don't like or want. Not using it seems a simple solution.

    Maybe I don't understand geeks.
  • DigeratiPrime, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6Media Player Classic and FFDShow, need I say more?
    • Coy0te, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yes. Explain to me how I can browse my music library visually with album art using MPC ;)
    • DigitalDud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2MPC plays files, thats it. It's not an organizational tool.
    • an0nym0us, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1who the ***** digg this *****-head?
  • kris101, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Hmm I notice its changed all my mp3 icons to little blue music notes. Not liking that so much. Anybody know how to change that back so my music files in windows explorer are just windows media icons like it was with version 10? Thanks.
  • LuminousSpecter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can anyone give me step by step instructions on updating Album Art?

    Help says this, but there ARE no instructions when you actually get to the page with the correct album art. Nothing you click will work:

    Do one of the following:

    If the correct album or artist information appears in the search results, select the correct entry, and then follow the instructions on the page to update the album art and media information automatically. If the correct album information does not appear in the search results, follow the instructions on the page to search again using different search criteria.

    If the correct album information appears with a generic music icon displayed as the album art, then album art is not available for download. See the procedure about how to add album art manually in this topic.

    • DigitalDud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You can also copy a picture of the album from a web site and paste it into WMP.
  • erimar77, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Ok, I have to vouch for Songbird. It's no WMP11, however, it does have its place. The cross platform capabilities is what sold me.

    http://www.songbirdnest.com/
    http://www.songbirdnest.com/themes/gespaa_customized/screenshot_library.png
  • juanotejano, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Why isn't anything ever released via the automatic updates? firefox i waited a week after it was "officially" released and still no automatic updates. windows update is telling me that 10 is the latest when it isnt
    • erimar77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2probably because most softwares don't autoupgrade to the next full version number..
  • Worf2006, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Tried it. Didn't like it. Went back to iTunes and Democracy
    • jdonner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Itune=Democracy? You're really funny dude, thanks for the laugh! ha!
  • zefrer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0WMP11, where your DRM'd files will die, your ripped CDs automagically have drm on them and what CDs you listen to and rip conveniently stored on microsofts secure servers for safe keeping. Well at least your collection will be organised, for as long as it still works. Enjoy
    • ZekeSulastin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Unless you go through and change all those settings. Not that hard, and it's not like iTunes doesn't do the same thing by default ...

      OH WAIT! It's COOL to bash anything MS for no good reason! LOL forgot I was on digg for a second there.
  • christoscamaro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It works great in Internet Explorer 7, which is my primary browser. *whew*

    I checked it out with Firefox 2.0 and it seems to squish the videos, sort of like they are trying to play in a widescreen format.

    I seem to be able to replicate the problem on two pcs on sites like:

    http://dumpalink.com/
    http://yikers.com/

    Do i have some strange setting enabled that is causing this problem? Or is it another bug in Firefox? (1.5.0.5 wouldn't display embedded WMP pages I noticed)
  • adila01, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0My loyalties will remain with Musicmatch
  • unrealmp3, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0EDIT: deleted, wrong topic
  • davidmackey, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Winamp FTW!!!
  • datagod, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I just installed it.

    My firewall freaked out for 5 minutes while the damn thing connected every advertising agency on the planet to inform them of a new sucker on the block.

    Talk about a bloated yappy piece of crap!

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