Talk:Windows Media Player

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1 Delete songs from a portable media player?
2 vob files
3 Version 10 release
4 Windows Media Player 11 Discussions
5 History/Release dates needs checking
6 Windows Media Player 12 ?
7 What about SMIL?

[edit] Delete songs from a portable media player?

It has been reported that deleting songs from a portable media player is no longer possible, as per WMP 10. Is this true? I cannot find a delete function.

When you plug in your PMP it should appear under the library on the left. Just drill down to the item you want to delete, select, hit delete and it will be deleted. BUT - be very very patient. This is another flaky WMP11 feature, for my gigabeat S60 it take about a minute to delete 1 song or a whole album - what is it doing??? Should warnings about this sort of loopy behaviour be in the Wiki?

[edit] vob files

why cant ms get media player to play vob files? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.130.189.170 (talk) 19:01, September 24, 2006

Because neither windows nor wmp includes a mpeg2 decoder by default. Install any, like windvd, powerdvd etc, and wmp will play them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Soumyasch (talk • contribs) 05:53, September 25, 2006

[edit] Version 10 release

Why does the release history chart not mention Windows Media Player 10, other than that it was included in XP MCE 2005? Wasn't it available to regular XP? - Josh (talk | contribs) 20:39, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Windows Media Player 11 Discussions

Main article: Talk:Windows Media Player 11

[edit] History/Release dates needs checking

I've just checked the redist application builds stamps for mplayer2.exe ver. Windows Media Player 5.1 (Build: 2nd July 1998) and 6.0 (Build: 2nd September 1998) yet the article states the release for 6.1 was 25th June 1998; implying 6.1 was released before 5.1 and 6.0 were even engineered into the redist.

I don't know release dates for 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 (mplayer2.exe, not the other one) or 6.0. Therefore I've not updated the article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by C:Amie (talk • contribs) 16:29, 14 May 2007 (UTC).

There wasn't any 5.0 or 5.1 that I'm aware of - the versioning kind of skips around. The basic info here from a quick very unofficial check:

* WMP5.2 - mplayer2.exe 5.01.52.0701 build date 07/02/1998

* WMP6.0 - mplayer2.exe 6.0.2.0902 build date 09/02/1998

* WMP6.1 - mplayer2.exe 6.1.5.0130 build date 01/30/1999

I don't know if that's interesting or helpful original research, but there you go AFAICT. Generally release date is build date plus somewhere between a day and a month or two. Preppy 12:08, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:HPC2000-MediaPlayer-1.jpg

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[edit] Transfer

Is it possible to transfer music from one user to another on the same computer, and can you sync music to a PSP, if it will help I have version 11. 216.26.203.146 (talk) 19:59, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Wmp601.png

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Wmppalm12.gif

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:WMP71-Mac.gif

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:WMP9-PocketPC.jpg

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[edit] Windows Media Player icon

What happened to the 'new' media player icon which had three panes of glass and a play symbol? Someone has changed it to this 'new' icon which looks like a glassed up version of the old icon. Is this correct or should the old one be put back.--Shaliron (talk) 03:31, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Windows Media Player 11 Album covers

In version 10 it was very easy for me to add my own art work to my personal compilation albums. In version 11 it doesn't seem to be able to do it. Or am I missing something. I would appreciate any help —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.139.191.223 (talk) 16:27, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Go to the library, right click the song, choose Advanced Tag Editor, go to the Pictures tab and add whatever picture you wanted to add. DeathShot39 (talk) 17:12, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Or copy the picture, click on the album art thumbnail and paste album art. Btw, such discussions aren't related to the article. So, it does not belong here. Post such queries in forums or try Reference Desk (Computing). --soum ^talk 17:42, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Comparisons with Real Player

I have come to see how Media Player compares with Real Player in performance but nowhere can I find any data. I am not concerned with appearence, just performance and quality of rendition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.21.103.171 (talk) 20:21, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

You had come to the wrong article. Wikipedia articles deal with the subject themselves and do not compare them with alternates. There are special comparison articles, if that is what you are interested in. For your needs, see Comparison of media players. --soum ^talk 05:34, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Windows Media Player 12 ?

Hi Guys, haf you infos about WMP 12 ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.72.14.226 (talk) 11:10, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

I was going to ask the same thing, I've seen lots of "windows Media player 12 beta" floating around the net but cannot find anything on any microsoft pages. --Fredrick day 17:43, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

No official info or any info from any reliable source is available yet. Keep an eye on the article, it will be updated as soon as any canon info is made public. And the "betas" are fake, mostly malware-laden. Stay away from them. --soum ^talk 17:45, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Zune software section

I'm removing the Zune software section because it's not relevant anymore. It can be condensed to a single line and merged somewhere. The new software is the future. All that info on decoders is now useless and obsolete. And Microsoft's decoders anyways never implement full support for any video/audio standard. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.128.181.112 (talk) 05:49, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ripping music from hard drive

I have digitised some of my record collection and saved it on a hard drive. I now want to copy some of it on to MP3 format but it seems that it is not possible. Do I really have to first of all make a CD of the music on the hard drive before ripping it in the Media Player?Jack Casement (talk) 10:40, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Macintosh version

The section on Windows Media Player for Mac OS X is all filled with criticism and maybe we should keep a little of it but not that much, since it's not a criticism section, but a section that describes the features of a particular version. So, I don't think we should add how badly Microsoft failed to provide good-quality software for Apple, but instead we should say what features are part of the ninth version of WMP for Mac, and let the users decide if it was good or bad.--96.239.4.18 (talk) 21:26, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] What about SMIL?

There is a link from the Synchronized_Multimedia_Integration_Language (SMIL) page to here but this page tells nothing about SMIL? Does the MSWindows media player support SMIL? --HJH

It supports SMIL in playlists, other than that I am not sure. --soum ^talk 03:38, 17 April 2008 (UTC)