Microsoft Has Released it's new windows media player beta version.Check it out njoy.

Hi , Welcome to MSFN

A few points , thanx for notifying us about the release , especially since it was your first post .

We usually have all the releases notification in the BPTN forum and use this forum for discussions about the Beta softwares.

Since you started this topic , we shall start the discussion over here itself

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Anyone of you tried it out? I installed it , although i knew i wont be using the URGE service , i decided to install it . to my surprise , the Installer downloaded nearly 30 MB of data just to install URGE. i do not understand what it is all about.

I have been busy adding files to My Library , which is really slow. SO cant give my thought on the player as of yet.

But from what i have seen uptil now , the look is hell lot much better now.

Will get back to you people soon in a day or two after using

Yeh I tried it out and i actually quite liked it.. i think i missed out URGE because my install was only 26mb... but i do remember selecting everything on it.

I like the new look, and the new visual effects..

I haven't tried playing a DVD on it but I might try it later..

So far so good with WMP11, not a single error

As you're in UK, you would not get urge, nor any music stores with this beta. Only in US.

Thanks Jrose,
you have answered my question before I asked it. I downloaded it and marked it to install with the same settings as in WMP10 but it won't show any stores at all. So had to roll back to 10.
Regards George.

P.s. just saw that's not my avatar either.
Don't know how that got there.

This post has been edited by georgepomone: May 26 2006, 01:31 PM

Anyone get it installed on Server 2003??

yep i have installed it it seems good but it is slow and seems to crash abit urge is real slow and im sure helps slow it up alot but the look is good will suit vista and the layout is great easy to use and doesnt drift away from mp10 which is good for newbies !! 7/10!!



servers arnt for music!!!!

This post has been edited by sleepytom: May 31 2006, 03:28 AM

Well why the hell not??? mine is for storing music! and movies... and pictures... so what if i wanna play some of the stuff i store???

Just for all you ppl that havent installed it yet, i would advise you not to.I Installed it as i was curious to see what improvements have been made, needless to say there have been no improvements whatsoever. It is practically identical to WMP10 in uselessness, it just adds a few more useless features to make it a full featured waste of disk space

Installed it, didn't like it. I had to reimage my machine because the uninstall option wasn't even available, didn't even appear in the Add/Remove programs section.

Didn't like it because they got rid of the full track duration at the side of the right hand corner, which was stupid.

And when viewed in full screen mode, how WMP 10 had the minimize, maximize and close button, they got rid of that too. Very disappointed with that.

I expect to see these features back in future builds, hopefully.

Yes, their best use is movies & video clips live encoding & streaming

btw, i like the new library feature (i was looking for that since soooo much time...), the track durations shows up near the song title in the playlist if large enough only (and you can get song rating there simply by making it wider)

In fact, that's all but a waste of space !

I use Server 2003 for listening to music and as a backup workstation.

I'm pretty sure that WMP11 will support 2003 and x64 soon.

how can i install this on win2k3?

Guys anyone tried to make windows xp media player 11 transparent like Vista one ? im not sure but is it could be possible via replace dll or something ? in fact its looks so nice in vista.

if u want to install on 2k3 there is a guy on neowin that made a installer for this.
or u can use my wmp11 addon but this one it will slipstream wmp11 into 2k3 cd...

boooggy you mean wmp11 from vista running in win2k3 ?

the wmp 11 addon i made is from wmp 11 installer for xp. i played with vista too little cause it crashed on my several times so i returned on xp

i found a little prob
the year is decremented by one

when y type an year ,say 2006 it is saved as 2005