Windows 7 - 3 MAJOR Complaints of WMP12

Lol i was going to say if he only found three he must be doing something wrong.

Yeah - I think he took my comments as sarcasm directed at him, but I was not being facetious in any way - I was being dead serious.

And since I use it so little, what I do use it for it works great - better than WiMP 11 ever did, so....

oh I'm sure you were being serious, but also unneccesarily critical. I use WMP to organize and listen to music and play MKV files with 5.1 Digital Surround. For a proprietary program to do that with only 2 plugin packs required is very nice. I never found any reason to compain about anything. If it works, it works, no need to complain about something that works. Also being the reason why I only have 3 major complaints about WMP12.

Media Monkey - it allows you to change the look to WMP 11 if you so desire. iTunes is not longer needed on my computer since Media Monkey sync to my iPod. Also it makes a great library organizer, etc., etc.,

Will have to say that with the Win7Codecs pack it is the only application I use for watching videos and movies (works great)

wmp, just like explorer, is made for the average user. power users will naturally use 3rd party apps.

foobar for audio
mpc for video
directory opus for file browsing
everything for searches
etc

windows is an OS, not an all-in-one app solution. it's nice that it comes with a media player, web browser, etc. but don't expect them all to be perfect!

Definition of an average user in this instance then would be someone who is satisfied with what can be done and doesn't require any extra "bling". In that case I would definitely be an average user.

However as in true definition I'm nowhere near an "average user" but when something does it's job it's good enough for me.

I'm not looking to start a war on what programs are the best to use I'm just asking what you think about the lack of those 3 options from WMP12 which I feel are very necessary to fully complete the program. Clearly a lot of you don't even like or care to use WMP so it's probably best that you don't post.

Whereas I prefer not to have my media *player* program get bloated with side projects like tag editing - I still use MP3-TagIt (unsupported) and am exploring other programs to edit tags of other media files, but I prefer to handle tag editing *outside* of my media player - otherwise it seems to get bloated, especially when it scans for tags or tries to verify info online for my 400K+ collection....

Bloated?
It's a right click option that you never see until you use it. Also the Album Info lookup is a very nice option to quickly rename and add track info to your files, and then do the advanced tag editing to add your own preferences.
And there's an option that allows only new information to be added to your collection instead of overwriting current information. I don't see what the problem is...?

Bloated in that my tag editor uses all of 2 MB of space when running, and I can just as easily look up and add track info from online as well. Like I said, it is my personal preference to not have this in my media player as I have always edited track info externally and continue to wish to do so.

Adding a feature set like this to WiMP will make it bloated - right click / context menu or not, it has to pre-load the code, making the player use more memory then is needed for simple audio and video playback.

Well it very much is a personal preference. I don't see a need to worry about a tiny bit of extra memory usage but as you said, that's just me.