Media Player in Vista


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The only two differences I see are:

- Volume control is different, and VERY unintuitive.

- When the titlebar/menubar is hidden, and you maximize the window, the titlebar (and menubar) doesn't appear, unlike XP's WMP 10.

There's no real reason to use Vista's media player under XP; besides that, most, if not all Vista applications won't run under XP.

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Vista MP10 is fairly different than XP's. A big example of this is you can't search for music through the old Tools > Search for Media... anymore. WMP10/Vista gathers your Music library based on the Windows Search Engine unless you manually add watched folders.

It looks as it requires a lot of the new functionality found only in Vista right now and most likely can't be easily ported. You'll just have to wait till november for the first beta of WMP11 for Windows XP

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The version of Windows Media Player 10 in XP is 3802 and Vista 3717 :blink:

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i have 3646 on XP. mind you, i've never updated since SP2..

but i'm sure the lower version number is because it's based on a new kernel (6.0).. :huh:

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