Media Player 7

[Paleo Pete]

What's the general opinion on Windows Media Player 7? I'm running 6.4.07 now, and occasionally get errors, the MS Knowledge base says either go way into the registry, which I might do, or upgrade to Media Player 7.

So it's now downloaded, but not installed until I find out if it works well or has problems. I'd rather not go into the registry if I don't absolutely have to...

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[bassman]

Hey Pete,
From what I have seen, its like any other media player in that it wants to take over and be the boss of all the mutimedia functions. As you know I don't push and tweek things like a lot of the others do so I dont know of any specific problems. I tend to turn off everything I am not useing at the moment. I like it fine for when I have used it and have had no errors so far.

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[hiredgoonz]

I second that...during the install it tries to default as the player for everything...

To be honest with you, I don't notice a difference between the two...on my ME system I have 7 and on my 2000 system I have 6.4 (which installed with the OS) I never upgraded cause there's no real reason to...aside from the visualizations that come with version 7 (that I think are just a poorly implemented copy of geiss) and the skins...the two behave identically...

[herbert]

Fatware is what I'd call it. I installed it and uninstalled it.

If it's for mp3s, try MusicMatchJukebox instead. It's fatware too, but at least it does something useful (like record directly from line-in to mp3).

They're also hogware. All media players these days will grab the filetypes for themselves.

As for spyware...???

[Paleo Pete]

Thanks for the comments, just wanted to know if it works decent or not since I haven't heard much about it. As far as MP3's or taking over all associations, I always use custon installs so I can set things up the way I want, not the way they want it to be...and I don't really care if it plays MP3's or not, if ot plays them well, that's ok with me, but I like winamp, so I might let winamp keep it.

The main problem is I've run into a few video files that the older version won't run, supposedly due to newer codecs that are not supported by the older version, so I thought I might upgrade, and wanted to check it out first. As I said, I've already downloaded it but haven't installed yet, it's just a file sitting there till I find out how it works.

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[BigBlue66]

Hey Pete,

My two cents worth is: Wait until they have all the bugs worked out of it. I installed it a few months ago, primarily 'cause I wanted the jukebox capabilities. What a nightmare that was! It never did work right! Error messages on top of more error messages. Maybe I just got a bad download, but I uninstalled it pronto.

I think I will wait for awhile longer to make sure they have bugfixed it to death. Winamp works well for what I want to do. Gotta have Floyd in the background whilst working and studying, ya know?

Cheers,

Big Blue 66