WMP 10 is Released

[apollos]

As strange as this may sound but WMP10 has converted me from Winamp and iTunes, it's fan-bloody-tastic :)

ah, regress in media players ;)

[Storm]

As strange as this may sound but WMP10 has converted me from Winamp and iTunes, it's fan-bloody-tastic :)

Yep, its got me from winamp :/

[NetRyder]

As strange as this may sound but WMP10 has converted me from Winamp and iTunes, it's fan-bloody-tastic :)

Same here. I was a huge iTunes fan, but WMP10 just won me over again. :)

Some of the reasons why I personally think it's better: here and here.

[futb0l]

WMP10 is hot.

[apollos]

"- Native Windows look-and-feel: WMP10 looks like a native Windows app. iTunes (and Quicktime, for that matter) look completely out of place in the Windows environment, especially when it's not all skinned to look like OS X. ;)"

Oh please... if eye candy is what you look for in an application I fear

[NetRyder]

Notice that I mentioned those were less important reasons. :)

[Fozzieb]

I used iTunes, I love iTunes, there said it. What i want to know is now that i have converted my 300+ cd collection to m4a files how will mp10 handle them. Will it add tags, add album art and can it in anyway rip to m4a rather than wma or mp3?

This looks like the best media player from ms yet.

[Bearded Kirklander]

All I want is a music player and song manager. Don't plan on buying any online music tied to a specific app. So for me, Music Match or Win Amp are good enough. I'd rather go to like Walmart.com and download generic music files that are player independent.

[NetRyder]

WMP will play AAC (m4a) files. You need to install 3ivx.

http://www.3ivx.com/download/index.html

[natrap]

Has anyone else noticed that double-click to get to full screen isn't working in WMP10 final. I have to Alt+Enter or press the full screen button in the top left-corner. From full screen double click works to get back to the player though.

[blobblob]

Double click gets to full screen and back for me, the same as before.

[Fozzieb]

WMP will play AAC (m4a) files. You need to install 3ivx.

http://www.3ivx.com/download/index.html

Cool, all i need now is for it to ripp to m4a or aac and i can ditch my beloved iTunes

[blobblob]

Heres how to get .m4a files to appear on the file>open menu without having to change the drop down menu to 'all files', I haven't managed to get them to add to the media library yet or get it to rip to .m4a

Start regedit by choosing run from the start menu and typing regedit. On the tree view on the left you'll need to descend to this key

My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Extensions\Types

and click on it, then on the right you'll get a list of values representing the supported extensions of the different data types. Double click on the value "1" (the one for Audio files) and add whatever extensions you want, such as ;*.m4a;*.aac, so it should something like

*.wav;*.snd;*.au;*.aif;*.aifc;*.aiff;*.wma;*.mp3;*.m4a

[Dean W]

yep WMP is out now, anyway im not sure if like it taht much now, i might and go and try out winamp?

Is winamy good? to use for music... ive never use it before?

[Fozzieb]

@blobblob

cheers mate

[Dean W]

do u use winamp, which would u recommand wmp 10 or winamp 3, just a quick question?

[blobblob]

I use wmp10, but thats probably juset because I'm used to it and can't be bothered to switch to winamp. And the fact that for some reason winamp takes 5 minutes to load up on my computer.

Just try both of them and see which on you prefer.

[Rahul]

wmp 10 as to winamp 3 ........

[Dean W]

is the latest version of wmp better and more faster to run that the series 9 of windows media player?

[Fozzieb]

it only came out yesterday, we need time to test.

[Boogiman]

IS there anyway to convert Winamp visualisations to WMP visualisations becaus those in WMP sucks.

[Bearded Kirklander]

Frowenhauf or however its spelt - the people who invented MP3

Cool. Thanks. Looks to be the same Fast Fraunhofer encoder that is in Music Match 7.5, etc. So at least the sound quality will be pretty much the same, which is good. Consistency = Win! :)

[madkingsoup]

I see it's down as "US English". Does this mean that there are no localised settings at all - it took ages for v9 to include British online music stores, so it'd be useful to know if that's just the language or the settings as well...

[GTMan]

A few beefs with WMP - Any Ideas on how to get around all these annoyances???

When shuffle is on it shouldn't play the same song 5 times in one day. I'm always turning WMP on for a while, then I shut it down and then back on etc. Each time I start it up it seems to forget what was played previously that day and I'll get some new songs but always one or more repeats from earlier in the day. It would be nice if it kept track of songs that haven't been played and how long ago they were played and use that to determine what to play next. Whoever programmed the shuffle does not have a clue.

When I launch a video I want a clean window (no playlist) and each time I have to shut that down.

When I launch the program with the application icon then I always just want to play music. If I was last viewing a video I have to turn the playlist back on and 3 or 4 more clicks to get my playlist visible and my library visible. If there is a slow CD/DVD spinning in the drive this takes forever. Would be nice to be able to ignore the optical drives.

WMP should remember that you want certain things visible by default and only vary that if you launch a video file or some other specific file. Plus the playlist doesn't consistently show what I expect. There are way too many ways for to configure the window and I spend too much time clicking around getting the window config I want.

Edited September 3, 2004 by GTMan

[DotCoM]

hi,

how install on windows server 2003 plz ?