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Windows Media Player 10 FINAL released*

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
did they upgrade the WMA format while they were at it? is the WMA format improved?
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Not sure to be honest. What was it that was particularly poor about the WMA format previously? 🙂
 
Originally posted by: klah
The first thing I noticed after running WMP10 is how it is eerily similar to iTunes.
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I read somewhere that they were planning to blow away all the services like iTunes with WMP10... are they just copying instead? 😀

Oh well, instead of asking questions I guess I should just see for myself! Time to download!

(Hopefully this final isn't as buggy as the SP2 final....)
 
Originally posted by: chrisbtx
Originally posted by: klah
The first thing I noticed after running WMP10 is how it is eerily similar to iTunes.
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I read somewhere that they were planning to blow away all the services like iTunes with WMP10... are they just copying instead? 😀
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good artists copy, great artists steal
 
WMP10 is awesome. I used it for 2 days now. Been ripping CDs with it. Cant get any easier. Pop CD in and it starts ripping immediately, after it's done (2-3 minutes per cd), CD pops out. I use WMA 160kbps compression rate. I read that WMA is better than MP3 at 192kbps or lower .
 
I find it slightly annoying that one of the buttons on my installation of WMP10 is a red X, like a corrupted image in IE. I tried reinstalling it to no avail.
 
Originally posted by: DonVito
I find it slightly annoying that one of the buttons on my installation of WMP10 is a red X, like a corrupted image in IE. I tried reinstalling it to no avail.
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same here
 
WMP10 is awesome. I used it for 2 days now. Been ripping CDs with it. Cant get any easier. Pop CD in and it starts ripping immediately, after it's done (2-3 minutes per cd), CD pops out. I use WMA 160kbps compression rate. I read that WMA is better than MP3 at 192kbps or lower .
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I`ve just installed WMP10 and its a lot better then WMP9 IMHO,interface looks nicer,just did a registry defrag since there was lots of old microsoft files left behind after the upgrade,no problems so far 🙂.
 
Originally posted by: welst10
WMP10 is awesome. I used it for 2 days now. Been ripping CDs with it. Cant get any easier. Pop CD in and it starts ripping immediately, after it's done (2-3 minutes per cd), CD pops out. I use WMA 160kbps compression rate. I read that WMA is better than MP3 at 192kbps or lower .
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Yes, your ears will tell you that. There are also formats better than wma (but which wmp doesn't support).
 
Originally posted by: chrisbtx
Originally posted by: klah
The first thing I noticed after running WMP10 is how it is eerily similar to iTunes.
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I read somewhere that they were planning to blow away all the services like iTunes with WMP10... are they just copying instead? 😀
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No. Microsoft has never copied Macintosh. In any way.



😉
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
I just installed WMP10, and I think there's a problem post-install.

Check out the red "x-box" in the upper right-hand corner: PIC.
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I have it too. I think everyone does.
 
Originally posted by: Shagga
Download the Energy Bliss Visualisation. I quite like this one..
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I downloaded the Energy Bliss, and ya, it's nice, but it brings my computer to it's knees! It looks great as long as I don't move the mouse, but once I start trying to scroll through my songs and whatnot, everything bogs down. Especially when I hover over a song to see the details. My system specs are in my sig, and I see no reason why I can't run some clouds floating across the sky!
 
Originally posted by: blurredvision
Originally posted by: Shagga
Download the Energy Bliss Visualisation. I quite like this one..
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I downloaded the Energy Bliss, and ya, it's nice, but it brings my computer to it's knees! It looks great as long as I don't move the mouse, but once I start trying to scroll through my songs and whatnot, everything bogs down. Especially when I hover over a song to see the details. My system specs are in my sig, and I see no reason why I can't run some clouds floating across the sky!
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Where did you find that visualization? I'm trying to look for it myself...

Edit: I'm an idiot, ignore this post - I found it. 😛
 
i like the new one, yeah. it seems a bit crowded with the music store crap and whatnot. take all that out and i'd be one happy camper.

edit: oooo...wow, less ram usage. equal to winamp when playing music, but 1% more usage than winamp, lol.
 
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