Windows Media Player 10 - Build 3409

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once again everybody goes crazy over a piece of crap, buggy beta! how lovely....

Coming from the guy with "Microsoft Beta Tester" in his member title. Hey man, chill out, all betas are buggy, otherwise they wouldn't be fun to play with. If you don't want to use it, then don't, but leave the people along who do.

Oh, and I also use WMP all the time. I like the UI changes in this version, it looks less cluttered, though it seems like they went a little overboard on the "shinyness". It looks good so far! :)

I see no bug so far and in no way is it slow. Less resource usage than foobar on my machine.

Oh yeah, WMP takes quite a bit less memory than anything else like Winamp on my machine. And it can do a hell of a lot more than Winamp. Personally, my favorite part is the Media Library. I really like how it works, thats what brings me to WMP :)

Edit: Nice avatar bryonhowley :)

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Well I like this version very much. It still is a little bit fisher price than what I would like but overall its very clean and fast even for a beta. I see a few bugs which I think are bugs where if I press the sync icon after pressing the burn icon I can't click on anything else but guide to get it too work again. So pressing RIP and others don't work. This doesn't happen on my Athlon XP system or my Pentium 4 HT system. It only happens on my Athlon 64 3200+ system so this might be a chipset or CPU issue with the Athlon 64 chips or even a motherboard issue.

Over all I will be using this beta until something better comes out because at least my experience with it is much less buggy and much faster and the UI I think is better than WMP9. Also even a buggy WMP by Microsoft is still 400 times better than anything Real Media makes. But for me WMP10 is faster, better and for the most part just as stable as WMP9. I say good job Microsoft on this one. I would like Microsoft to optimaze their WMV HD codecs for computers that have 512MB of RAM, 3Ghz or less CPU but no slower than a Celeron 2Ghz because it does need speed and also optimaze playback so older video cards can play it back and maybe and I mean maybe intergrated video playback as well.

That is my hope since my older systems even with the top of the line video card one year ago with a 2500+ CPU and 512MB of RAM can just barely cut it with my 21" CRT which does by the way offer 1920x1080 or better resolutions. Or at least 1080p stuff can be better optimized because the 720p stuff is mostly fine.

But this version has great promise in the future and I'm hoping to see much more improvments being made to this version.

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