Wmp 11 in Windows XP

[Julius Caro]

For those experiencing problems with split albums, there is a tag besides the "artist" tag of each song, that is called "album artist". In the advanced tag editor for each song, you will find both artist and "album artist": THEY MUST MATCH ! Otherwise you are most likely going to get split albums.

I had this bug, however, that one album was split and while playing songs of the album, it split once again.. I played all the songs one right after another (clicking on 'next', lol) and they were merged into the same album. Weird stuff.

And as for playing AAC, if prior to the installation you had installed aac codecs for DirectShow (or whatever is called), I think it will show up in the installation when it asks you about defaults. When I installed it on my laptop, I saw vorbis files listed (ogv and oga) and I think they weren't there when I installed them on my desktop. I had previously installed Directshow filters to decode them in WMP.

Aha... I have only now got the WMP library organised, I see what you mean by the spiral stack, nice touch. It makes popular artists more visible in the library. I have a lot of compilation albums, so there are a lot of single-song artist entries in the Artists view... its kind of annoying. iTunes has that option that hides compilation artists, making it a lot easier to find artists with full albums. Not every artist is listed.

My impression of WMP11 is that it is great for organising your music, and it looks nice too, but it might not be particularly easy to manage an iTunes library and a WMP11 library simultaneously... don't want to screw up my iTunes library with some creative tag editing in WMP11 :p

Well, as a simultaneous iTunes/Foobar/WMP/MCE user, IT IS possible lol. I'd suggest to change tags using a tagging app, checking if ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags have the same info or not, and then adding the album art with ID3v2. Make sure the album artist tag of each song is correct, and voila! You'll have it all working flawlessly. Hehe.

[planetik]

Just got WMP11... All I have to say is awesome...

*Loads winamp*

[JaDz]

Mhm... after installation of the included "Windows media format 11 runtime" (and all the same whether or not I install the WMP11beta after this) I only get black screens when playing wmv-hd files (like this f. e.). It doesn't matter if I use WMP10, WMP11beta or f. e. Media Player Classic. Just no video. :cry: Anyone else with similar problems?

[Aamir1]

Its available on softpedia. I just downloaded it and all its requirements (Update Rollup 2) its pretty cool....i don't like the URGE thing everywhere though :pinch:

[Ambroos]

URGE totally rocks! I live in Belgium and i'm using it (just set regional settings to US), and i've watched something about 40 videoclips! Really useful, and it has loads of known artists, and not only the new little ones!

[MoNo]

WOW, check out the synchronized lyrics thing in advanced tag editor, its awesome.

This has been a long time in the Vista version, but how do you use that thing?

[MrCobra]

Where is the default skin located?

[MoNo]

Where is the default skin located?

wmploc.DLL in \Windows\System32\ folder.

[scribby]

link removed

Edited May 15, 2006 by mAcOdIn

[spenser.d]

I love the new WMP, but it's just too much of a pain to go through my huge library getting the tags right from iTunes to WMP...so iTunes will work just fine for music.

-Spenser

[Xavien]

this may be a stupid question, but how on earth can you quickly access playlists in WMP 11? on WMP 10 it used to be when you clicked on 'Now Playing' but i click there now and theres nothing...

any ideas? :)

[zeroday]

^ i noticed that too, hopefully they'll fix it in the final release.

[Preppy Veteran]

I'm not sure which method of accessing playlists you're referring to - sounds like you want "Show List Pane" (click on the bottom down arrow of the "Now Playing" button, which is called the split button, I believe) or the little left arrow in the upper right of the Library view.

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

with all the new media players now, I can't make my mind decide between foobar2000, itune and wmp11 (which I don't have right now but looks pretty cute!)

[tomwarren Veteran]

If you have ID3 tag issues then use a program called "Tag&Rename" it's great.

[Joserodsan]

Hi guys! well, i'm from Spain and i'd like to use URGE. how can i change the local settings from my pc to use it? thanX

[medosa]

Too bad. WMP11 doesn't support AAC. The screenshot must be fake.

WMP11 still misreads id3tags. I wonder why the same album is listed FOUR times in the Library. These files are perfectly id3tag edited in iTunes.

This happens to me also i think microsoft must add new options to library this is not enough

and i think they must add arrange with album only or album + track

i mean u can arrange using one field or more than one field

it is amust

is it possible to use queue in media player 11 like winamp or no

[AnalogKid82]

Does it have something similar to iTunes' playlist sharing?

[Xavien]

I'm not sure which method of accessing playlists you're referring to - sounds like you want "Show List Pane" (click on the bottom down arrow of the "Now Playing" button, which is called the split button, I believe) or the little left arrow in the upper right of the Library view.

Nope, in WMP 10 if you click the 'Now Playing List' (just above the list of a playlist) you can quickly choose which playlist you want to open (via 'Open Playlist'), this list is assembled from what playlists you have in the WMP playlist folder.

In WMP 11 there is NOTHING when you click the 'Now Playing \/' button cept some 'clear playlist' selection. it was incredibly handy and one of the few reasons why i used WMP to play music. If its gone then i'd probably have to use winamp instead or WMP 10 (even though WMP 11 looks damn sexy).

Hopefully they will add it before final release.

[infinitex]

I'm having that multiple albums problem also... has anyone found a fix?

[Preppy Veteran]

"Multiple albums": Set the Album Artist value for those files. Albums are sub-sorted by Album Artist. After all, that's really the only way to make sense of and separate the hundreds of "Greatest Hits" albums. :)

[batbeef]

The search in WMP11 is rediculously fast. So far so good except for the multiple album problem which took me a couple hours of trail and error to fix. All i did was go into the advanced tag editor > Artist Info tab > and made sure all files within the album had the same 'Album Artist'. It's really important to have the same Album Artist and it'll take WMP a while to recognize the changes so i jsut like to press the back button then go back; evrything should be updated by then. Besides that WMP11 is a really good music cataloguing tool. It only took me a couple hours to organize 15 gigs of music.

[someguy03]

I can't get URGE to work. Is it activated yet?

[Timan Veteran]

I can't get URGE to work. Is it activated yet?

Yep, been using it for the past day, and have to say its pretty damn nice. My favorite part over this and other music subscription services. No crappy bloatware to install to download the actual music. Built right into WMP.

If you're having problems signing up for a trial, (says you've already done it), simple email them and they'll respond pretty quick.

[PGHammer]

Anyone else have a problem where it won't connect to the internet at all. The Work Offline option isn't checked, and the box that says to connect is checked, but it still won't. It's also allowed under Windows OneCare Live, so I'm not sure what's blocking it.

Any thoughts?

-Spenser

It's *not* OneCare Live (at least it isn't that here). I'm NOT having that issue (in fact, the first file I threw at MP11 was a streaming video that had issues playing back in MP 10 (and it's a live stream encoded for MP 9); MP 11 plays it perfectly...as it has every file I've thrown at it). In fact, I just played the Crysis HD video from GameSpy (1280x720 on a 1280x960 desktop)...and my jaw just *dropped*! That's a *streaming video*...and I know from VERY painful experience that MP10 would have choked on it! (That goes beyond the PQ of the video itself...if Crysis looks THAT good when it ships, the question WILL get asked: CNN or Crysis?)

In my case, I have MP 11 installed on XP Pro with SP2 (player version is 11.0.5358.4826, so it's been around for a while) wearing the Corporate skin (included with MP 10). I'm gonna stop by my favorite spot for trailers for games and put MP 11 through the wringer!