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Windows Media Player 11

By on 16 May 2006

For Windows XP users, Windows Media Player 11 is a must-have upgrade. It's Microsoft's best jukebox effort to date, thanks to a thoughtful redesign, impressive performance, and a ton of useful features.

Editor's rating:8.0 User rating:5.9

Comments (78)

  • anonymous gave 3/10 on 26/08/2007 14:12

    • Good: Clean look, free
    • Bad: Can't turn off album art in the list pane, which often takes up half of the space so I only have a limited view of th playlist

    Album art sounds like a good idea, but it just ends up cluttering the screen.

  • mysteriousbimale29 gave 10/10 on 16/08/2007 03:18

    • Good: many use
    • Bad: could be attack by minor virus

    am using wondows media player for almost a year now. It's easy to use. EXCELENT!

  • VAHustler gave 4/10 on 12/08/2007 10:34

    • Good: nice skin
    • Bad: album art for songs that don't have art is a waste of space, 2 seconds between tracks when recording, and editing track information was much easier in wmp 10

    2 seconds between tracks when burning kills the wmp. How hard is it to include the option for no pause between tracks? I have to use Nero instead which sucks because tracklist doesn't show up when I reinsert disc.

  • ali gave 7/10 on 05/06/2007 02:41

    • Good: Bill Gates should stop investing his money in crack cocaine. Its the only explanation I can think of.
      Pros: Quick Install. Didn't cost money (very good considering what I think of it).
      Cons: Everything else. From WMP 10 to WMP 11 no new formats were added (still need a plugin for mpc files and still can't burn them), that dimmed 2 second pause between songs! I honestly think that Microsoft is just trying to play at the "user experience" without following through.
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    • Bad: Bill Gates should stop investing his money in crack cocaine. Its the only explanation I can think of.
      Pros: Quick Install. Didn't cost money (very good considering what I think of it).
      Cons: Everything else. From WMP 10 to WMP 11 no new formats were added (still need a plugin for mpc files and still can't burn them), that dimmed 2 second pause between songs! I honestly think that Microsoft is just trying to play at the "user experience" without following through.
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    Bill Gates should stop investing his money in crack cocaine. Its the only explanation I can think of.
    Pros: Quick Install. Didn't cost money (very good considering what I think of it).
    Cons: Everything else. From WMP 10 to WMP 11 no new formats were added (still need a plugin for mpc files and still can't burn them), that dimmed 2 second pause between songs! I honestly think that Microsoft is just trying to play at the "user experience" without following through.
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  • NotRequested gave 4/10 on 02/06/2007 15:02

    • Good: Looks good
    • Bad: Videos about 3 seconds in the go slow motion for about 5 secs then around 80% through the video or song the music jumps regardless of type of file

    Not very impressed

  • blah gave 3/10 on 27/05/2007 08:53

    • Good: i'll let u know
    • Bad: i said my peace

    dnt like it i have a few problems with it, will NOT burn cd's an my music is gettin doubled up for no reason

  • Gojira69 gave 2/10 on 12/05/2007 08:47

    • Good: I did not need any of the PROS on this release.
    • Bad: I use M3U playlists. I have M3Us embedded in other M3Us. Under MP10 this behaves like windows explorer; you pull up an M3U with embedded M3Us and you see a plus sign to the left of each embedded playlist. Clicking on the "+" expands the embedded list to reveal its selectable contents. MP11 shows the embedded lists; they cannot be expanded nor can individual songs be selected from them. I have rolled back to MP10 indefinitely.

    My criticism of MP11 is it removes functionality I use.

  • Nick gave 6/10 on 11/05/2007 15:36

    • Good: Nice interface, easy to use for the most part
    • Bad: URGE and bulky DRM software stuff

    Yeah it takes a long time to load between the songs, but this should fix it:

    http://windowsmediaplayerslow.blogspot.com/

  • progrom_333 gave 8/10 on 29/04/2007 18:37

    • Good: dont have a clue
    • Bad: dont have a clue

    dont have a clue

  • anonymous gave 2/10 on 13/04/2007 23:17

    • Good: Its free
    • Bad: Doesn't work on XP Service Pack 1 or 2 which is what I am running

    It wont work on earlier XP Service Packs which sucks

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