Windows Media Player's Database SUCKS!

[SuperJediMedia]

Why doesn't it use CDDB?

It has a lot of my CDs UNrecognized... :| :angry:

Are there Plugins to use CDDB?

[neufuse Veteran]

I thought WMP used CDDB since version 7? :blink: wonder why 10 doesnt... check http://www.freedb.org/ to see if your disc is listed

[SuperJediMedia]

Hell No.

It uses fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com

Are there Plugins to use CDDB?

[Preppy Veteran]

No there aren't. Maybe you could read up on CDDB and form your own thoughts/opinions here.

You can use WMP's Update Album Info tool to correct the CD data.

What CDs aren't entered? It sounds like that producer isn't sending their information to AllMusicGuide.

[The_Observer]

i have also found that they dont pick up on alot of my cd's, sucks a$$ big time, if your going to make a product do it right!!

[Preppy Veteran]

^-- Since there's a large amount of CDs created every month, it really kind of keys on the CD producers submitting their album to GraceNote and AllMusicGuide and elsewhere. The CD database services can attempt to figure out every last CD, but that's not nearly as effective or quick.

If you CD producer doesn't enter those CDs in the databases, you should ask them to.

[piehouserat]

lets be honest, wmp is one of the worst media players out there... and before anyone calls me anti-microsoft, i'm actually a fan of most of their software.

i have yet to found a media player thats great at both music and video, i find vlc is best for 90% of video, mpc handles the other 10% and winamp is my favourite for music.

[darkmanx21]

Man, just tag your music with mp3tag. Once I tagged everything right, WMP works amazingly well - it's fast, reads multiple formats and so on..WMP works fine, but I don't think any software will auto-tag with 100% accuracy because it depends on peoples naming conventions.

[ZEROarmy]

"Windows Media Player SUCKS!"

fixed.

[ViperAFK]

lets be honest, wmp is one of the worst media players out there... and before anyone calls me anti-microsoft, i'm actually a fan of most of their software.

i have yet to found a media player thats great at both music and video, i find vlc is best for 90% of video, mpc handles the other 10% and winamp is my favourite for music.

Windows media player is NOT a bad media player. I love WMP 11, I have never had it not get the data for a cd I rip. It has a very fast easy to use and organized linrary, I love the ui for burning/ripping cd's and it is also pretty light on resources (uses like 5 mb minimized for me) and starts up nearly instantaneously. It also can watch folders ect..

Now tell me what is actually bad about it that makes it the "worst media player ever" I use VLC for video and WMP or winamp for all my audio.

[+Chsoriano Subscriber²]

Windows media player is NOT a bad media player. I love WMP 11, I have never had it not get the data for a cd I rip. It has a very fast easy to use and organized linrary, I love the ui for burning/ripping cd's and it is also pretty light on resources (uses like 5 mb minimized for me) and starts up nearly instantaneously. It also can watch folders ect..

Now tell me what is actually bad about it that makes it the "worst media player ever" I use VLC for video and WMP or winamp for all my audio.

You make good points, I love WMP for many of the same reasons... but the one gripe that I still have about WMP and the Zune software is the library management is sub-par. It doesn't create an index of the music, so things like "Date Added" etc get cleared every time I reformat my machine or re-organize my music. Ironically, as much as I HATE itunes, that is one thing that I loved about its library.

[quentez]

For the Music/Movie library I find that WMP is one of the best players. It always find the CD data for my CDs and the ripping function work as it should. Where it sucks is in the playback of those media. It works quite well for Wma/Wmp (even if you have then a huge amount of memory taken by him) but for other type of files...

I use it only for my music and for everything else I recommend you GOM Player which is for me the best player ever (Official Website). It's a kind of VLC but with a Human-Understandable (Some marketing guys would say User-Friendly) interface while being highly customizable.