01-16-2009, 07:00 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 202
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Windows Media Player 11: Sometimes very frustrating!
I started using Windows Media Player 11 when I discovered that it supported album and and synchronizing with my Pocket PC and Nokia Phone. There are some things I love about it, and some things I hate about it.
First, I love that when I rename a song within WMP, it automatically changes the name of the file as well as the Artist and Album directories if needed.
While that is very convenient, it is very IN convenient when WMP decides that a certain song isn't what it is labeled as. Several times now, WMP has taken individual songs and renamed their artists and albums to something that they really just aren't. It's very aggrivating when a song dissapears, but a whole new band that I've never heard of shows up and, oh, what do you know, there's the missing song.
Another thing i dislike is getting album art and information. In order to obtain these, you usually have to manually search a database. It seems to be some kind of Explorer pop up window that this is done in, and it is very very slow and counter-intuitive. Finding the right band and album is 100x harder than it should be. iTunes automatically finds the album art with one little click.
Finally, is the album art itself. When I download a song off Amazon, it comes with pretty, high resolution album art. When WMP downloads album art, it is small. This is very frustrating. By the way, Amazon mp3 downloads has changed the way I obtain music. Be sure to try it out!
Does the Zune software have these same annoyances? Will it still Sync up to my Pocket PC, Phone (In flash drive mode), Flash drive mp3 players, and will it NOT totally screw up my library?
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Joel Crane
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