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5.0 stars
Sees picture ohhh memories
January 8, 2013 By tomysshadow
Version: Windows Media Player 11
Pros
Starts up fast and plays most music files. And videos even Quicktime MOV.
Cons
Not very many. Except the hidden menus and that live streaming is disabled by default. Not a fan of the Library idea either.
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1.0 stars
Can t play what it can t find
August 31, 2012 By Cabby_Z
It s stupid simple
Stupid it s that simple
Summary
There are at least fifteen songs on my computer, yes, they re in my Music Library with all my other songs that WMP can t see on it s own. If I double-click the song from Windoes Explorer, WMP plays it just fine. But if I open WMP and try to find the song, the player comes back with nothing.
You can t add a song to a playlist if the program can t see it on it s own.
4.0 stars
don t think it worked..
August 14, 2012 By mar00cus
quick dwnload
i don t if it workedi really wanted it to replace whatever was already on there. i m just not too sure
Great Visual Interface, Horrible on Processing Speed
May 20, 2012 By s_zabel
Visual presentation
Organization of Menu
Improved sound controls
Optimized user interface
Greatly slows down the processor for other tasks running on windows simulataneously
Causes many programs running simultaneously to go unresponsive
Tends to freeze up computer
My HP all in one is equipped with a dual core processor that typically operates under a 2.6GHZ pace; however, with this media player running, even only in the background, I experience heavy delays in running any other program, and it causes my computer to operate under a 1.6GHZ pace. This can be seen even under the task manager when looking at its CPU usage For those of you reading my review whom are not as experienced in IT: basically what I am saying, is that this program will slow down your computer a great deal. And although it is pretty and its menu is easy to navigate, it will cause many applications like internet explorer and microsoft office, to suddenly freeze up and go unresponsive, to the point where you have to restart the program. I found this experience to be highly frustrating, thus I give it 3.5 stars. If Microsoft can improve its cpu usage and allow for a more comfortable cohesiveness with other running programs, Windows media player will be my number one media player and I will uninstall iTunes immediately.
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A necessity on my computer.
May 9, 2012 By paulPCP
very quick, works very well with most other programs.
part of Windows, expect problems with errors, and possible attacks.
3.0 stars
Is it possible to go back to WMP10. I dont like 11.
May 7, 2012 By pacsit66
It s very simple and dummy proof in my opinion.
I used to like to periodically clean out the library in WMP 10 and then rebuild it so that all my music was indexed properly. Ir theres a way to do that in 11 I sure can t figure it out. I ve been trying the other high rated music players and have thus far not found a suitable replacement.
If anyone has any ideas I d love to hear them. But to the point WMP 11 is actually a very user friendly program and works well and I ve never had a crash. It just lacks some of the controls from previous versions.
played video files I converted. Old version would not.
December 29, 2011 By Goonykid
played files I wanted played.
not a fan of the new GUI.
Plays my content although navigating the interface takes some getting used to. talk about hiding menus.
Kept me up to date on new programs.
December 17, 2011 By bassman-001
Easy downloads.
afraid to use it because my pc is fairly old. But am in the makings of uo grading to a new one in the near future.
Works Great.
November 24, 2011 By qiyuanyuan
Starts right up, no buffering, good quality and options.
Can t think of any.
Great.
fantastic. i love it
November 19, 2011 By asosoe
effective,efficient flexible
non so far that i know of, except that i can t play tv on it
there is always room for improvement.
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Back to Top Setup and uninstall issues Rolling back to a previous version of the Player For information about removing Windows Media Player 10 and rolling back to the.
I need to encode a short video in a format that can be played with windows media player on windows xp without installing any additional codecs.
The latest iteration of Windows Media Player adds a lot of useful bells and whistles, succeeding in many ways as a competitor to iTunes for Windows.
