Windows Media 9 is the shhhhh.....

[BD2003]

Damn, this new player is nice. I found a reorganization setting, and im pretty suprised how good of a job its doing. Even though pretty much all my mp3s are downloaded, like everyone elses, it is slowly figuring out exactly which song it is, what group sings it, and what album it belongs to. Then it organizes it by artist, and then album, and then song. And it totally cleans everything up, and on top of that, it gets the album art, and puts it on the folder!

This is certainly putting a lot of faith in microsoft of all companies, but thats what backups are for. 😀

 

[NFS4]

**Waits for all the Microsoft/Bill Gates/Digital Rights bashers to come in**

 

[amnesiac]

I don't like it because scanning / fast forwarding doesn't work properly in most of my movies.

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: amnesiac 2.0
I don't like it because scanning / fast forwarding doesn't work properly in most of my movies.

This is true, and its VERY annoying that when WM9 is installed, you cant set WM6.4 as default for anything, but I assume it will be fixed in the final. Too glaring of a bug to miss.

 

[ElFenix]

does it eat up all your cpu cycles playing mp3s?

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: NFS4
**Waits for all the Microsoft/Bill Gates/Digital Rights bashers to come in**

say it three times fast and Davshomer or Nemesis77 will show up.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: NFS4
**Waits for all the Microsoft/Bill Gates/Digital Rights bashers to come in**

say it three times fast and Davshomer or Nemesis77 will show up.

since they aren't here yet... does it report usage statistics to MS without my explicit permission? and i mean a check box or something like that, like winamp does.

 

[IamDavid]

I like it too.. One bad thing though is no DivX codecs will work yet. 🙁

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: IamDavid
I like it too.. One bad thing though is no DivX codecs will work yet. 🙁

really? all my avi files seem to work fine...

 

[BD2003]

There is a checkbox you can click off, although to be honest, considering the amount of album art and reorganization/renaming going on right now, I'm sure MS knows everything on my hard drive.

Like I care.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: NFS4
**Waits for all the Microsoft/Bill Gates/Digital Rights bashers to come in**

say it three times fast and Davshomer or Nemesis77 will show up.

since they aren't here yet... does it report usage statistics to MS without my explicit permission? and i mean a check box or something like that, like winamp does.

there is a checkbox.

 

[IamDavid]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: IamDavid
I like it too.. One bad thing though is no DivX codecs will work yet. 🙁

really? all my avi files seem to work fine...

No Way?? I can't get a single one to work.. I have the Nimo Codec pack installed so I have all the different codecs.. Are you doing anything special I should know about??

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: NFS4
**Waits for all the Microsoft/Bill Gates/Digital Rights bashers to come in**

say it three times fast and Davshomer or Nemesis77 will show up.

since they aren't here yet... does it report usage statistics to MS without my explicit permission? and i mean a check box or something like that, like winamp does.

there is a checkbox.

does it pop up on initial use?

 

[BD2003]

I think I remember it popping up on install, although I'm not sure. Pretty sure it wasnt checked by default though.

 

[Beau]

hmm.... Maybe I'll d/l it later.

 

[Entity]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
does it eat up all your cpu cycles playing mp3s?

Yeah, it was taking up close to 20% on my work computer (Dual Xeon 933).

Rob

 

[BD2003]

Its the visualization that sucks up the cpu. Turn it off and it takes near to nothing.

 

[Keego]

RARRR I hate their download server, it's stuck at 10.0 KB/Sec!!

:|

 

[ElFenix]

can i make it into a tiny 15 pixel tall bar that i can dock at the top of my screen and still know the song name and have controls?

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: BD2003

Originally posted by: amnesiac 2.0
I don't like it because scanning / fast forwarding doesn't work properly in most of my movies.

This is true, and its VERY annoying that when WM9 is installed, you cant set WM6.4 as default for anything, but I assume it will be fixed in the final. Too glaring of a bug to miss.

http://vobsub.edensrising.com/mpc.php
great fix for it 🙂

 

[Evadman]

Anyone got a link for download? Or is it on thier update site?

 

[BD2003]

Not 15 pixels, but pretty damn small. You can have it in the taskbar though, which is even better imho.

 

[amdskip]

Yup, like 10kb/sec, normally it's much faster.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: BD2003
Not 15 pixels, but pretty damn small. You can have it in the taskbar though, which is even better imho.

eh, i've started liking docking winamp as a little bar at the top and having the controls and song name and stuff right there. did they get wmp able to do that in the taskbar? does that work on win2k or is it just something that xp can do?

 

[ddwbi0]

Originally posted by: IamDavid

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: IamDavid
I like it too.. One bad thing though is no DivX codecs will work yet. 🙁

really? all my avi files seem to work fine...

No Way?? I can't get a single one to work.. I have the Nimo Codec pack installed so I have all the different codecs.. Are you doing anything special I should know about??

im not 100% sure on this....but just b/c its an avi file that doesnt mean its an actual divx. Someone correct me if im wrong please