Media Player sucks

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Media Player is great. Sometimes when you close it the music keeps on playing until you forcefully close it with task manager, :rolleyes: same goes for porno videos - when you really need to close it there and then, the audio keeps on playing :mad:. When you choose a new track, it sometimes takes 10 seconds to play the blasted thing. It hangs frequently for a few seconds for no reason. The search facility also hangs the whole program, fn useless. It completly bombs out when you try and play certain 'supported' video files.

When you're in the 'Album Artist' section of the tree, you type in the letters to find your artist and it suddenly hops right down to 'Playlists' for no reason.
This feature also fails to understand artists that begin with "The". When you want to delete a track, it takes forever. When you edit a group of tracks using the 'Advanced Tag Editor' it rarely actually edits them. There are countless other little bugs that make Media Player a horror to use.

Is it just me or does this program really suck ass?

edit: I'm using version 10. Is that the best you can do, Microsoft?
 
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I'm generally a fan of MS software (I know, shoot me :rolleyes: ) but Media Player is absolutely terrible. It's too slow and doesn't play half the files you ask of it. Something like WinAmp or DivX Player just tears through anything, and is quick about it too. Media Player is just.....erk :(
 
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Yeah, another intermittent thing I just noticed (which has been anoying me for the past year) is when you click on Media Player in the task bar to minimize it but it just won't minimize. You have to click on the minimize button on the top of MP. Little things like that really pee me off :mad:

I'm a fan of XP becuase it never crashes on me, haven't formated in 2 years. I also like the Media Player interface but it's just too slow and unreliable. I HAVE HAD ENOUGH.
 
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Nothing like the joy of starting a video file and finding the audio is three times the volume of the last thing you played. And you get an hourglass for 30 seconds while is does something else, will it lower the volume? Will it ferk!
 
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Morlan said:
same goes for porno videos - when you really need to close it there and then, the audio keeps on playing :mad:.

LOL, someone's been caught then? ;)

The main issue I have with WMP10 is that it takes ages to read my local library of files and I think it's hung only to discover it's just taking a while to re-read the library list (maybe the amount of files?).

That's why I've switched to WinAmp for music and VLC for videos. I'd like to use WMP10 but I'm having too many performance issues with it to take it seriously, if only I could uninstall it. :o
 
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Ive been using media player 10 since it came out and ive had no problems with it apart from maybe not playin all the files i want it to play but a quick google search usualy sorts that out.
 
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I'v never had any of these problems, although a few months ago i did get the sound playing after shutdown a couple of times. If you download the codecs for file formats it will quite happily play just about any format going.

I find sometimes divx files wont play on the divx player but if i open them in WMP they work. Yuod think it would be the other way round?

The one thing that is slightly annoying is that when you minimise it when playing a video on a secondary display it freezes the video but the audeo carries on.

May i suggest a reinstall if you have problems?
 
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afraser2k said:
The main issue I have with WMP10 is that it takes ages to read my local library of files and I think it's hung only to discover it's just taking a while to re-read the library list (maybe the amount of files?).

I find that too I think. It starts up normally then freezes for a few seconds. Think it may be time to try Winamp again and see what all the fuss is about
 
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Fakel1ty said:
i'm sure you'll be pleased to know the next version will be similiar to iTunes

I certainly wont be its bad enough as it is without any apple software influencing it. If it's like itunes it will stutter just trying to play 480p video.
 
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Should try Foobar. Strangely enough, I tried WMP10 for the first time this morning on my laptop. I despise WMP but was still curious, what a nightmare it was to use, especially getting a library of my files. The thing then proceeded to much cpu cycles for around 40secs before displaying my library. Urgh.
 
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Well, its a common complaint that WMP (not sure what versions) take long to display a large library or something like that. I've seen loads of complaints over the years, but never thought it'd still be happening. Video is fine from what I can tell as it should be.
 
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I have WMP 10 and it takes about 30 seconds to search and load my library of 7GB from a fresh install. When i load up WMP after that my library is there instantly.
 
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sjohal2006 said:
This is funny, got this problem yesterday.... but only occured the once.

MP10 is riddled with bugs. M$ aren't going to do anything about it because they're too busy working on MP for Vista. I look forward to it.
 
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Well quite impresses with Winamp. It's a big difference but i think it would be worth moving over.

A reinstall of samurize sorted the Media plugin so it even displays in my config properly :D

I checked briefly and it was actually using more Memory than WMP, but I have Ram to spare, not processor usage. The Media controls on my keyboard don't work with it either which is a blow, but i don't have setpoint installed so i guess there's no way to make it.
It's great to close it and have the music stop instead of going on for a few seconds...
 
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