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- 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. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+86Skip the blogspam.
Direct link: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/download/download.aspx - 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... - inactive, 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/ - steelmaverick, on 10/12/2007, -5/+46Bypass WGA Check
Direct Link
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx - inactive, 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. - 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. - Darrelc, on 10/12/2007, -4/+38So you posted a link for a linux only media player in a thread about a windows only media player?
Wow, you're cool. - Tordenflesk, on 10/18/2007, -5/+35Just extract it with 7Zip, then run wmp11.exe and wmfdist11.exe
No WGA for you! - zeeta6, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31Please stop linking to and digging blog sites.
- 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...
- 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.
- hmemcpy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27FINALLY it fully supports Windows x64. Perfect!
- mrSimon, on 10/12/2007, -8/+30Awesome........ oh hold on, WGA.......... Not so awesome.
- inactive, 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- MrPig, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Thank god there is an x64 version - there wasn't of the beta.
- 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.
- inactive, 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.
- luish, on 10/12/2007, -10/+22Downloading it now ! :)
lotta MS releases lately :) - 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?
- jeolmeun, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17Anti-Micro-Soft SPAM BOT?!?
- eastbeast314, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12The best part is that with WMP 11, XP computers can stream video to the 360 (once the Fall Dashboard Update comes out tomorrow)!
http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/12117/Xbox-360-Fall-Update-Announced/ - 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...
- Tekmaven, on 10/12/2007, -30/+38I can't wait to get this installed on my machines!
- TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12heh what a shameless way to get premium points
- markp93, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10the install doesn't even require a restart.. how 'bout that.
- Raztax, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12You do realise that WGA and DRM have nothing to do with each other right?
- inactive, 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. - 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
- 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 - Darrelc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8No *****, _Windows_ media player. see a clue in the title?
- 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.
- 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? - 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. - MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -2/+7Well done. Thanks!
And 7Zip looks way better than winrar. Good looking out. - hmemcpy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Press Ctrl+F5
- 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?
- Eleo, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12I hope you're right, because I remember previous versions being fairly abysmal.
- 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
- 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. - 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.
- 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) - 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. - 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! - NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10Winamp. It really wips the lamas ass.
Man I cant live without my milkdrop. - DigitalDud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You can also copy a picture of the album from a web site and paste it into WMP.
- Darrelc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5They were beta's, this is the final I assume.
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