Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2

[kampioen]

i get this when i try to install.. is it because i am not a US resident?

[Preppy Veteran]

shaimanor: You should take your 'offline' issue to the existing thread here and hopefully we can sort this out. :)

[backdrifter]

1. I have an album, but without correct tags, so in album view I right-click on the album art, select Find Album Information. The dialog finds the album succesfully, but when I click on it, it applies the information only to a single track in that album, than passes to the next track, does the same search. Is there a way to apply the album information to all tracks in a an album?

2. The Find Album Information dialog renders the player useless when active. I think it's a background task, it shouldn't attract this much attention. I can't even pause the song or decrease the volume when Find Album Information is running.

[mad_onion]

1. I have an album, but without correct tags, so in album view I right-click on the album art, select Find Album Information. The dialog finds the album succesfully, but when I click on it, it applies the information only to a single track in that album, than passes to the next track, does the same search. Is there a way to apply the album information to all tracks in a an album?

2. The Find Album Information dialog renders the player useless when active. I think it's a background task, it shouldn't attract this much attention. I can't even pause the song or decrease the volume when Find Album Information is running.

dont use the thing built into wmp. get a program like Tag&Rename and at tags for any music that doesnt have them with that

[McoreD]

1. I have an album, but without correct tags, so in album view I right-click on the album art, select Find Album Information. The dialog finds the album succesfully, but when I click on it, it applies the information only to a single track in that album, than passes to the next track, does the same search. Is there a way to apply the album information to all tracks in a an album?

2. The Find Album Information dialog renders the player useless when active. I think it's a background task, it shouldn't attract this much attention. I can't even pause the song or decrease the volume when Find Album Information is running.

Another trick is to burn it to a Virtual Audio CD (ISO), mount it and rip it through WMP or iTunes. :)

[Saadu]

@ zachdms,

WMP11 could use rss Podcast support.

Also, i have a pocket PC which is a compaq 3900 connected to my PC. Although i dont use it to transfer any music or media, everytime i startup WMP, it gives me a warning saying that device is not supported by WMP. Thats fine but i dont use the device anyways so the error is redundant. It should only pop up if i go to the synch menu.

@ Herby: that first zip file is found corrupted when i download. Ok, that was the first time i saw IE7 cause a corrupt download on a small file. Downloaded it with DAP and zip turned out to be fine.

Edited September 1, 2006 by Saadu

[+John. Subscriber¹]

That's the only thing I use iTunes for. Podcasts. If there was a podcast function like iTunes, that'd be it. WMP would be the only thing I need.

[Preppy Veteran]

Doppler (and other tools) offer podcast functionality for WMP. The right people are aware of that feature request/user desire.

[backdrifter]

dont use the thing built into wmp. get a program like Tag&Rename and at tags for any music that doesnt have them with that

I did, and it's a wonderful program. I'm now organizing my stuff with it.

Another trick is to burn it to a Virtual Audio CD (ISO), mount it and rip it through WMP or iTunes.

wow :| never thought of it, but kind of tiring doing that for many albums.

Anyway thanks very much for the replies :)

And I'd be happy if MS takes these problems into consideration(especially #2). WMP11 is a very neat software and I want to use it full time.

[Saadu]

dont use the thing built into wmp. get a program like Tag&Rename and at tags for any music that doesnt have them with that

I once did, but it burned me. Some how the option to move files was ticked by default. Next thing i know my file organization is totally messed up. Had to download everything again back to harddisk from my mp3 player.

[1WayJonny]

what do you do when you want to unistall and it chooses only to do a rollback

i have system restore off, now what....?

[Jojo81]

This still not work on x64? The dumb thing is they don't try to stop you from downloading it like most of the other software that isn't supported.

[Nelsinho]

yep, thanks dude downloading it now

[thugilex]

thx ..........

[nekrosoft13]

what do you do when you want to unistall and it chooses only to do a rollback

i have system restore off, now what....?

to uninstall it run

first

C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallWMFDist11$\spuninst\spuninst.exe

and second

C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallwmp11$\spuninst\spuninst.exe

How can't you install? Any setup error is logged to %windir%\wmsetup.log - look for "ERROR:" in that file. We can handle this via PMs or the beta discussion forum. :)

i had that problem yesterday, it was some stupid permissions issue in registry

[spaceelf]

It is kind of ironic that the MSN unit release betas with no thought to x64 as the x64 community is a lot of early adopters that would definately be messing with these things, but then again, it is a really small subset of Windows users nonetheless.

I've been on x64 since May of last year despite not having any terribly obvious advantage to it....some call me 'arterial spurting' edge when it comes to software, but hey whatever works. :) Or doesn't. I got time to kill.

What I don't know is if the User Mode Driver Framework stuff even supports x64 yet, though.

[Preppy Veteran]

Nekro: That's backwards: the WMP11 rollback should be done first. You'll get better results by letting the normal uninstall process run from the Add/Remove Programs control panel, really. But good info. :)

re: 64bit: True 64bit fans will want to be off testing Vista 64, which has a native 64-bit WMP available. Nobody's being ignored: this is a 32bit beta for Windows XP. *shrug*

[nekrosoft13]

Nekro: That's backwards: the WMP11 rollback should be done first. You'll get better results by letting the normal uninstall process run from the Add/Remove Programs control panel, really. But good info. :)

re: 64bit: True 64bit fans will want to be off testing Vista 64, which has a native 64-bit WMP available. Nobody's being ignored: this is a 32bit beta for Windows XP. *shrug*

i tried from add/remove programs, it asked me am i sure, i said yes, and simply it did nothing. nothing been uinstalled

[Preppy Veteran]

That's great data, because it means that something is horribly wrong on your system. Let's take this to PM. I'm hoping that nobody else is seeing that level of madness.

[spaceelf]

Vista x64 is pretty damn cool admittedly. I've been there for quite some time. But it wasn't my main box...and maybe it's ready to be now, hard to say. I'm on the low end for heavy gaming on Vista (A64 2800+, 1gb)

[Preppy Veteran]

Necrosoft was running an old version of Crap Cleaner, which accidentally deletes the WMP uninstall files. I had previously talked to McG over at CCleaner: they've fixed this, so if you're running CCleaner, make sure you're using their current version.

For people who've been bitten by that: if you directly contact actual technical support, they have a limited ability to restore you even in this circumstance (although System Restore would be superior) based upon best-guess replacement of those uninstall files. It's ugly and not the best solution, but ..... there you go. Please make sure you're running the latest version of CCleaner. =\

[Saadu]

^^ that one bit me in the days of IE7's early beta testing. I ended up making a fake directory to verify that uninstall exists from old versions and let it continue. It was messy.

[nekrosoft13]

zachdms

this secret connections to online stores need to stop., why is wmp11 beta 2 connecting to napster, walmart, and etc..!!

not only does the program not supposed to connect with out my permission, i selected urge, i don't want it to connect to every other store.

also this is what causes the player to stay around in the memory, between 10-15 seconds

this really needs to stop

[Randolph]

zachdms

this secret connections to online stores need to stop., why is wmp11 beta 2 connecting to napster, walmart, and etc..!!

not only does the program not supposed to connect with out my permission, i selected urge, i don't want it to connect to every other store.

also this is what causes the player to stay around in the memory, between 10-15 seconds

this really needs to stop

What program are you using to detect this? (curious)

[nekrosoft13]

TcpView

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/TcpView.html

if you don't have software firewall, yours most likelly will show under system process