Media Player 10 is awful, have to vent

[Marco]

I just had to say this. I put up with this piece of bloated junk only
because it sounds better than any other MP3 software player, including
Winamp -- but the interface is horrible and the player is annoying as hell.

I don't even know how to start, but no matter which skin I use, I can
never get the thing to show the stuff I need on it. Sometimes it shows
bitrate, sometimes song title, sometimes on compact modes things you
think you it should have it doesn't. MICROSOFT JUST LOOK AT WINAMP AND
SEE HOW TO DO IT RIGHT.

Also, when I make the player compact and click another song in a folder,
the player enlarges again -- can't it stay in freaken compact mode and
in the same position I left it. MP10 never seems to stay in position and
I'm not going to even get into the lousy visualizations and media library.

MS Media Player is just the worse piece of software bloat I've ever had
the fortune to use in my life, intrusive & annoying as heck, and to boot
tries to connect online every chance it gets (thank God for Zone Alarm).

Unfortunately it sounds and rips great (with appropriate MP3 plugin), so
I'm forced to have to deal with it, but can't Microsoft have come up
with something better?

 

[Millybags]

Why should they - it's free isn't it? What do you want for nothing? No
problems here with WMP10 - I think it's great.

 

[Brandon Milonovich]

I personally think that MP10 is pretty good.

 

[kitekrazy]

I personally think that MP10 is pretty good.

It is but the old classic Winamp was great as well. I never use media
players to rip or encode audio. There is a lot of stuff out there that
does a better job of it.

 

[Guest]

I think that it that it works great and personally to me it`s pretty easy to
use.

 

[Guest]

Marco, it's no-offense, but I think that you're exaggerating. WMP 10 is
simply beautiful with its convenient Media Library and dynamic playlists. The
only thing I don't like about this player is that it doesn't display artist's
name and album title in playlist. I hope this annoying "feature" will be
fixed in future.

 

[Phillips]

I use WMP 10 for ripping and and Creative Media player for... playback. You
need the Audigy soundcard for tke latter.
Michael