Windows Media Player 11
Posted: June 17th, 2008 | Filed under: Software | Tags: Media Player, Music, SoftwareThis post is a continuation on the series about finding the “Best Free Media Player for Vista”
Windows Media Player is my long time media player. Its very stable and pretty quick with one exception. For about 5 seconds after the player has been running for about a minute it does some wierd little lag thing then its good to go after that.
The UI is friendly and easy to use, and Since windows media player is part of vista it still alows you to minimize it to the taskbar as a tiny media player, which is great I use this all the time.
Windows media player was the only media player that also managed videos, tv shows, and pictures as well as music. However I don’t user it for anything but music.
There are 8 different ways to view your music, These have helped quickly locate a song their fair share of times. Another great feature is the auto playlists, letting you view only your favorite music. Only bad thing since I let the music play on random almost every song is rated at least a four star, the song doesnt have to play very many times before wmp decides to rate the song four stars which can be pretty annoying.
My Suggestions:
Add ways to be able to mix the different views like the other media players. So i can see a short list by album and a list by song at the same time. It just seems that wmp is missing something that I cannot put my finger on, but otherwise wmp is great.
My Rating: 8/10
Summary:
- Good UI, its clean and user friendly
- Great minimized version
- Handles videos, pictures, and music
- 8 ways to view music
- Bad auto rating
- Good auto playlists
- Good system resource usage
