Windows Media Player 11

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>iTunes

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/default.aspx

[Prometheus|ANJ]

Bloat+DRM? No thanks.

VLC (video) and DeliPlayer (music) works fine for me.

[CGMonkey]

It's pretty unnecessary to have such a power hog wasting space when you have a small program like winamp2.8 to play music. I never watch videos on the pc, when I do it's VLC that makes the job much better :)

[Jabo]

Monkey, I was thinking the exact same thing. But the new way iTunes and WMP go with sorting album and artist information is something I have searched for so long. It's the cleanest way to display your music. Anyway, I guess iTunes is better than WMP. The new WMP interface looks neat tho. Like latex on naked skin.. harrrrrr.

[jfwalls]

I haven't tried some of the others, except itunes. I agree with Jabo about the way WMP sorts a categorizes music. I like sitting there and rearranging my playlist. What does annoy me is that I have some mp3's wmp won't play, but quicktime will. It says I'm missing a codec, but I can't find the one I could possibly be missing.

[Staz Johnson]

I use this all the time. My computer is just a glorified CD/mp3 player... whadya mean I'm under-utilising it?

[Denart]

VLC (video) and DeliPlayer (music) works fine for me.

DeliPlayer? I never even heard of it...whats so special about it?
I'm an iTunes man + custom skin

[CCorsair]

Warning more Bloat ware coming. Ms is now running updates(turn off auto update with auto-install) the new IE 7 which from what can tell is a copy of Firefox..(FF2.0 is out and it a must).

Go and setup you Automatic updates to download but ask if you want it to be installed Don't be sheep not all updates from MS are a must.

Windows Media Player 11 is aiming at Itunes and winamp(winamp is the better)

I don't download Music I do listen so winamp is best.. WMP is just more of MS at its best.

BTW as i have said before If you get new system in the next few month you may get it with Vista if so delete it and get XP Pro you will Not be able to used 3rd party software for Security for the first year or more. No networking with XP if you use Vista.

I been testing the RC1(one of the Betas for Vista) and it just Eye Candy you better off with a Mac running Ox 10.4 which runs better.

I see with vista the end of cheap PC with the need for high end CPUs and Memory plus high end video card as well Oh and 9 to 15 gigs of hard drive space for the OS (Vista ask for 15 to 20).

I know most of have system that can run Vista but I will pass and I will tell everyone here to do the same.


CC

[paberu]

Been a dedicated WMP since v10. Winamp is all nice, but wmp still has an edge.

Itunes is crap, full stop.

[sktrdie]

Bloat+DRM? No thanks.

VLC (video) and DeliPlayer (music) works fine for me.
indeed

[blakboks]

I just downloaded WMP 11 yesterday to check things out due to this thread. It really doesn't seem to take up any more resources than WMP 10. I immediately told it not to connect to URGE--don't really care about online music. I guess I'm a little old-fashioned. I prefer to buy a CD then rip it myself rather than downloading a lower-quality version for roughly the same price (plus, you always have that backup, and can listen to it in the car, etc.). I really like the fast search (similarly, that's one reason I won't switch back to IE 7 after Firefox--not to mention Firefox 2 is crazy fast).

The only real problem I have with it so far is that I miss being able to just double-click on My Music and have it queue up my entire music library, but I think I'm able to find a way around that, anyway.

All that being said, I know WinAmp has all these features and more--I just don't use that because it doesn't work as well with my "Microsoft Natural MultiMedia" keyboard as WMP does...

-Chris