WMP11 is out or leaked (Try It )

[Guest Stuge]

Windows Media Player 11 beta leaked (It is still not available for Windows Xp users via Microsoft site )

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme...11/default.aspx

Faster than WMP10

Also I try it at your own risk :devil:

Edited May 18, 2006 by Stuge

[Guest Stuge]

post updated with reliable link .

[Ishiyoshi]

Thanks for the update, Abhinav.

[Beethovenian]

I love the interface of this player. Wish SonicStage or Connect were like it. The new Toshiba Gigabeat S must have an interesting interface.

[Guest Stuge]

I love the interface of this player. Wish SonicStage or Connect were like it. The new Toshiba Gigabeat S must have an interesting interface.

YEah ,Managing musi library has become really easy with WMP11 beta .New Graphic & everything .WMP11 looks really coool

[Guest Stuge]

Further Update :

Microsoft will release WMP 11 beta on May 17

see here --->

http://www.jcxp.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6752&hl=

[Guest Stuge]

Post Updated with Microsoft LINK

[JSP62]

I like the GUI, but trying to edit tracks is somewhat cumbersome for me. It's gonna take a learning curve to understand it fully.

I was trying to find cover art for Chrono Trigger Soudntrack, but looks as though I need to change each and every song 1 at a time. Unless I am missing something, this is ridiculous.

I gave up after a few minutes.

[Guest Stuge]

It is hard to find Album art of every song but you can look at amazon or allofmp3.com for album art .

[Dinko]

I'm impressed. WMP11 is even worse than SonicStage and Connect.

It hogs up all the memory on the PC and can't even carry out a simple task like deleting tracks from the library without freezing the PC for more than 10 minutes. Poor computer is so frozen even CTRL+ALT+DEL doesn't work. The only fix is the power plug.

It also has some serious issues with Java applications. The moment a browser has a java app actively running, WMP11 goes nuts and even the java app doesn't load properly.

WMP11 has some nice features, but I'm certainly not going to spend time waiting for it to unfreeze.

That's the magic of the iPod/iTunes combo. It sucks... but it works.

No one will be able to catch up to Apple if the competition continues releasing these user-unfriendly half-baked DAPs that come with shitty software.

I've spent so much time in front of a computer screen waiting for Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, SonicStage or Connect to get their act together and unfreeze their sorry selves at one point or another, that I'm starting to hate portable music. Explorer-based drag and drop won't do it either... not as long as the hardware is so poor (why do they keep releasing players that don't play tracks in proper order? Not everyone likes mandatory shuffle! I can't believe 3 years ago RCA released a DAP that was simple D&D and did everything perfectly, but today the major players can't even do that properly.)

[Beethovenian]

Weird, I don't have any stability problem with WMP 11. For me it's as fast as iTunes, with a much better interface. Of course, I don't use it to connect to any device, since my players use Atrac. But I simply love how easy it is to find music with WMP 11. Since more than 90% of my collection is of classical music, browsing albums by composers is crucial, and being able to just clicking a name having an expanded search is also great. And I like to have cover arts and not lists as the main interface, since it reproduces better the experience of choosing an album. Then again, because of my musical taste, I never browse based on songs. (It's silly to go after an Allegro when you have thousands ot them.)