MrCobra Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 My warning level was increased yesterday just because I said that I had installed it. :( I think my post was removed too. And yet people post screenshots and openly discuss about it. If I were allowed to talk about it without risking another increase, I would comment the crash things... I saw that post of yours. Mods give warning about such things and then more often than not turn around and talk about the very material they say are breaking the rules. Things like a-patch and the like. Those types of programs are against the EULA of Microsoft and therefore illegal according to the forum rules. Why are those allowed? Why were mods allowed to post screenies of Photoshop CS2 when everyone knew good and well it was pirated? I'll tell ya why. Hypocrisy. You'll find that most of the mods on here shouldn't be mods to begin with. No, this will never ever be a feature in Windows Media Player. It is against the shell user interface guidelines. And most things Microsoft developes goes against the UI guidelines as well. Look at Office 2007. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn1p3t Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 I am very interested in trying Urge, but putting credit card information into a leaked program doesn't sound that tempting. You can sign up for the 14-day trial without putting in any CC info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badazzEVO8 Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 I saw that post of yours. Mods give warning about such things and then more often than not turn around and talk about the very material they say are breaking the rules. Things like a-patch and the like. Those types of programs are against the EULA of Microsoft and therefore illegal according to the forum rules. Why are those allowed? Why were mods allowed to post screenies of Photoshop CS2 when everyone knew good and well it was pirated? I'll tell ya why. Hypocrisy. You'll find that most of the mods on here shouldn't be mods to begin with. And most things Microsoft developes goes against the UI guidelines as well. Look at Office 2007. i'd like to add to this. why is it illegal to download wmp 11 since IT IS FREE?!? therefore NOT PIRATED. so what if it leaked out early ITS STILL FREE. warn this mods haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LG1 Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 And its even on Softpedia, and that site is just like Download.com so it is obvious the microsoft intentionaly leaked it or it wouldnt be on sites like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julius Caro Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 i'd like to add to this. why is it illegal to download wmp 11 since IT IS FREE?!? therefore NOT PIRATED. so what if it leaked out early ITS STILL FREE. warn this mods haha With WMP11 they have a reason though, I don't think it's reason enough to raise everybody's warning level, but still they got a point. Anyway, weeks ago when WGA started annoying users, there was a NEWS on the Frontpage linking to a page on how to BYPASS it! Yesterday an user came asking how to stop the messages from WGA, and I linked him directly to that news item INSIDE NEOWIN.net. What happened? My post got edited and the thread was closed. NOW that's hypocrisy! I saw that post of yours. Mods give warning about such things and then more often than not turn around and talk about the very material they say are breaking the rules. Well I have to mention my warning level was decreased by the same mod that increased it, he kindly apologized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McoreD Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Nice review! :D When I read about "Aggressively replaces my high quality 600x600 Folder.jpg files with a 200x200 Folder.jpg hidden system file" you almost killed me!! :crazy: I checked my covers and WMP11 didn't change my high resolution covers (most of them 500x500) with a 200x200... :yes: Thanks and Sorry :D I must have elaborated a little more. This happened to me when I dragged my high quality 600x600 Folder.jpg to WMP11's this location: because as you see in the screenshot, it didn't detect the folder.jpg and showed a blank artwork instead. So if you see blank Artwork like that in WMP11 *ALTHOUGH* you have a high quality Folder.jpg in that folder, then it is best for you to first create a copy of your Folder.jpg and drag the folder.jpg to WMP11 Artwork location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McoreD Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Here is what I told about WMP11 aggressiveness, in action. :) wmp11_albumart_aggressive.wmv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCobra Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 With WMP11 they have a reason though, I don't think it's reason enough to raise everybody's warning level, but still they got a point. Anyway, weeks ago when WGA started annoying users, there was a NEWS on the Frontpage linking to a page on how to BYPASS it! Yesterday an user came asking how to stop the messages from WGA, and I linked him directly to that news item INSIDE NEOWIN.net. What happened? My post got edited and the thread was closed. NOW that's hypocrisy! Well I have to mention my warning level was decreased by the same mod that increased it, he kindly apologized. That proves that the mods that are supposed to be controlling and administering this site don't know what's going on in the very place they are supposed to help. I'd take an apology from and mod on here with a grain of salt. The staff of NEOWIN constantly breaks the rules but be damned anyone else even come close or think about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
styxie Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Just a few question about WMP11: - Does WMP11 automatically search for Album Art? - If the ID3 tag does not contain any Album info, in which folder will WMP11 put it? Will it make a folder named "Unknown Album" or will it just leave the track as it is and keep it in it's original folder? - How about new visualizations? - How does URGE affect all of this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 (edited) Anyone seen the new revert skin? I don't like it as a whole but they added a fade feature :) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v400/protal/fade.jpg I love how you can increase the size of the album art, great for big monitors :D http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v400/protal/nice.jpg Edited May 15, 2006 by slimy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnalogKid82 Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Does it have something similar to iTunes' playlist sharing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kierant Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 I love how you can increase the size of the album art, great for big monitors :D http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v400/protal/nice.jpg How do you change the size of the albumart? Can't find anything...? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bamsebjørn Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Does it have something similar to iTunes' playlist sharing? I believe it's going to be a Vista only feature... it'll allow you to play everything from another computer, even DRM-protected files. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viciv Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 a few hours before the public preview^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn4k36 Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 how did you get that? is it a skin?, or is it fake lol? for this wmp11 look, all i did was click on the bottom right hand cornor, until u see the arrows, then go ahead and click and drag it up and inwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadLox Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 It just happens when you shrink the skin, like so: http://rapidshare.de/files/20400945/wmp.wmv.html (the video is a bit squashed when I compressed it, but you get the idea) It's a problem with your tags. Same thing happened to me when trying to setup my 360. Download MediaMonkey and fix your tags. If one thing is different or not filled in on one and filled in on another, WMP will see them as two different albums. PITA I know, but at least I know all of my tags match now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos11 Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 When I was deleting and manually adding new albums I got an error message telling me that the database was corrupted. When I restarted WMP11 all entries were gone. I have to start from scratch. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PL_ Veteran Posted May 15, 2006 Veteran Share Posted May 15, 2006 i'd like to add to this. why is it illegal to download wmp 11 since IT IS FREE?!? therefore NOT PIRATED. so what if it leaked out early ITS STILL FREE. warn this mods haha I belive that leaking Betas are illegal. Check the EULA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadkins555 Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 So is this expected today or on the 17th? I'm hearing both dates... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
none_needed Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 How do you change the size of the albumart? Can't find anything...? Thanks Stretch the "Album" column to make the album art bigger. Vice-versa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the6thfactor Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Anyone know why WMP11 won't play any of the music my external HD.. but as soon as I drag the .mp3 to my desktop, it will play it? Won't recognize any of the files on my external, and not sure why.. tells me it cannot find the file when i'm sitting right there looking at it. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flare Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Ah fack this is ****ing me off. Some of the songs on windows media player 11 have their own album and it's only one song, and I don't want it to be classed as an album it's just a single. So when i click remove it deletes the song, does every song with an album in their ID3 tag have to be deleted because of this. Is there a way round this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L3thal Veteran Posted May 15, 2006 Veteran Share Posted May 15, 2006 So is this expected today or on the 17th? I'm hearing both dates... The official public beta release is projected for Wednesday the 17th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destian Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Ah fack this is ****ing me off. Some of the songs on windows media player 11 have their own album and it's only one song, and I don't want it to be classed as an album it's just a single. So when i click remove it deletes the song, does every song with an album in their ID3 tag have to be deleted because of this. Is there a way round this? Tools > Options > Library Tab > Uncheck the first box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Ark Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Cooler :laugh: Isn't that WMP10? :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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