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Totally agree with jberenyi and CircuitBreaker and others, there's no other way to describe WMP 12 but that it sucks eggs, there's just too many usability issues and regressions compared to WMP 11. I'm sure it works better in some ways, and it's nicer, but the mini player, the minuscule window for video playing, the 2 confusing "Switch to Library" and "View full screen" buttons, the disappearance of the "Rip" tab, the disappearance of being able to play songs by ratings, like all 5-star only, you can't edit the tags anymore!!!, such as Parental rating, Mood, and so on, it's all totally frustrating.
And no progress done on library management at all, no support at all for ripped DVDs, no integration between purely audio files and video clips under a single "Artist" entry, I still need to remove manually duplicate tracks pointing to nonexistent files every week or so, there is still 4 artwork files per CD, there is no stats about how many artists, CDs, albums, which do you play most, no export to list feature, you still can't browse by any tag (only Artist, Album, and Genre), although it's all in the library database, and the list goes on.
Major formats such as Flash and mkv are still not supported by default (thanks, Shark!), you can't open several instances of WMP, there is still no radio management: You need to find a radio URL, open URL to play it, drag & drop to a new playlist that can't appear under a separate "Radio" category, it's different from WMC which supports FM tuner adapters, etc.
I still use it because the Library is great regardless, but come on, MS should acknowledge WMP 12 is just barely adequate and has still a lot of work to do in terms of usability. I was hoping that now it is dissociated from Windows, there would be more support for other file types such as mkv that are offered on third party players, or that installing WMP 11 would be easy (not an awful downgrade hack). This has yet to happen.
And don't get me started on Blu-Ray or x64 WMP 12! ^-^
Last edited by Chimel; 04 May 2010 at 20:18.