Windows Media Player 7 BETA

[Warthog]

Just downloaded it. Quite impressive! I have tried many unique media players: Sonique, Media Sauce, MidiPlus, Creative Labs LAVA and the usual like Winamp, Real Player and Music Match (and of course old version of WMP).

I always liked the visuals in Sonique and LAVA, but in the former there were not that many and in the latter, they didn't seem to go with the music at all http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif.

WMP 7, on the other hand, has a LOT! They all seem to go in beat with the music too. My only problem with it is the way the types of music are displayed. There is a list of genres (which I hate to sort by) or a choice of listing All Audio. I would much rather have it search by file type (wav, mp3, mid, etc.) than having it show ALL the sound files on my computer.

I hope they fix that in the final release. Other than that, this is a HUGE upgrade from the previous versions.

Warthog

[thekingofpain]

Yeah I got it last week, pretty cool indeed... http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[bhess]

seem ok to me. I just listened to the radio on it with no problems. I'll keep playing with it to get used to it.

[Dave_H]

Anybody figure out how to save anything yet?
I used to like in the other versions you could go under File and choose "save as".
That feature is missing on ver 7. On some file types you can't use the "right click and save target" choice either, It's just not there either.
I like the way before that you could listen to something and preview it, then if you liked it, you could use the "save as" if you wanted to keep it.
Dave

[Gene C.]

don't give up on my old friend realplayer just yet, I use both of them. http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/reuters/docs/93609l.htm

[doodoo]

Unlike recent versions, does the newest version of Media Player play MPEG video efficiently?

[Warthog]

Thanks Seti!

It apparently worked very well. I've seen the video before on that thread. It didn't play the music with the old media player, but this time it did. Guess it plays MPEGs http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif.

What song is that?

Warthog

[seti]

Good Stuff!

The song is "between you and me" by The Ataris. They're a pretty good emo band. Other good songs by them are The last song I'll ever write about a girl, My so called life, My hotel year, not a worry in the world, San Dimas high school football rules, your boyfriend sucks....some others.

A lot of them can be had for free "legally" here (http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/102/the_ataris.html).

They used to have them up on there site (http://www.ataris.com), but now just have a link to that page...hmm.

[Warthog]

Thanks! I'll check 'em out. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Warthog

[chipbgt]

I told WMP to check for newer versions and it said mine was the latest version, even though it was still in the 6.xxx line....can anyone give me a link to try out 7? thanks http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[seti]

http://betanews.efront.com/article.php3?sid=957295270

It wouldn't auto update because it's a beta.

[chipbgt]

I figured as much..thanks for the link http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[seti]

http://betanews.efront.com/article.php3?sid=959031813

Somewhat related...RealPlayer 8 beta is avalible. Includeing RealJukebox 2 beta, and RealDownload...some sort of download utility(no kidding huh?).

I just installed it...so far is seams really sluggish.

-jukebox has visulization now, haha....including a head banging sheep


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[Warthog]

I'll have to try that too! I'm a suckor for stupid things - always liked the disco guy in Creative Labs Lava. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

heh heh....head banging sheep. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Warthog

[Warthog]

I don't have any MPEG videos on my computer. I'd be more than happy to try if you could give me a link to an MPEG video preferably under 2mb. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Warthog

[seti]

http://members.home.net/cam-t/art/Mov00348.mpg

1.3mb w/sound

took it with my digital camera for that show me your work space thread....wanted to see if it worked!

[deep_sky]

my only isssue with wmp7b is the fact that you cannot encode to mp3, only to wma, it seems. if i am just not seeing the option to encode to mp3 from cd, please please let me know.....