Windows Media Player 12?

[pspuser007]

Hello,

I am using WMP 12 to listen to music.
The problem is that at my HDDs there are a lot of songs and a lot of folders with songs.
If I import all these folders to the Library of WMP, the application says all the time "Updating Library : -A directory with a music folder-".
This will make my system slow.
And also WMP will delay a lot ( about 1 minute) to make visible the list of the songs in my Library.

There is no progress bar or anything to inform me about the progress of this procedure. right? :-S

Is there any other way?


Thank you for your time.

 

[whs]

Get a WMP folder from the C:\Program Files of another system and stick it into your Program Files. Plus you then may want to set the default associations. A completely different option is to get VLC ( http://filehippo.com/download_vlc/ ). That is a good music and video player.

 

[pspuser007]

Ok, I fixed that!
Thank you for the fast reply, but now I am updating the main problem I am facing.
(Look at the 1st post).

 

[Uber Philf]

Tbh, i don't think WMP handles large amounts of music files well, i use Winamp for my 10,000+ songs, and it scans once to add all the files, takes less than 3-4 mins, and i never have to scan for music ever again, until i get new music, then i just let it scan again, which takes about 30 seconds (since it only searches for new music). Hope this helps.

 

[pspuser007]

Thank you for the reply.
I know that Winamp is faster as this is the other player I've installed after I saw this problem with WMP.
BUT I haven't used Winamp again and WMP fits me better.

That is why I want to use WMP.

Do you think there is a way?

 

[Uber Philf]

Is it the look that is making you want to use WMP? Because theres a WMP skin for Winamp

 

[Adrian]

Thank you for the reply.
I know that Winamp is faster as this is the other player I've installed after I saw this problem with WMP.
BUT I haven't used Winamp again and WMP fits me better.

That is why I want to use WMP.

Do you think there is a way?

What kind of music files?

 

[pspuser007]

I know about the skin, I have downloaded it, but still it seemed not helpful for me.

At WinXP with WMP 11 there was no problem.
Do you suggest installing WMP 11?
Is there any way to do that?

What do you mean what kind of music files?
(.wav, .mp3 ?)

 

[Uber Philf]

I don't suggest installing WMP 11 at all, but if you still want to:

http://www.sevenforums.com/music-pictures-video/33466-switch-windows-media-player-11-a.html

That should help.

 

[pspuser007]

Why don't you suggest me to do so? :huh:

I am now adding again the songs at my library.
There are now 33.000 songs.
WMP 11 could easily work with these (and more).
That is why I thought about it.

 

[Uber Philf]

It's one of those things, that could corrupt important files, and will leave a nice mess if its not done properly, do it at your own risk.... -scary music-

But we're here to help if it all goes pear-shaped.

 

[pspuser007]

Well now I really need your help.
I imported all my music now.
About 300GB.
When I am opening WMP 12, it takes about 1 minute (plus) to show the library with my songs.
What can I do about that?

WMP 11 didn't do that at WinXP.

 

[Uber Philf]

That's something with WMP, and its constant updating. I don't think anyones found a solution to it yet.

As i said before, WMP and large amounts of music don't go well together.

 

[pspuser007]

Damn. :-S
But is there anyone that is looking for a solution?
This is incredibly annoying.
Although it finished the Updating yesterday, it does updating now again.

So it would be bad to use WMP 11?
Or will WMP 11 at Win7 do the same as 12?

 

[Uber Philf]

WMP 11 will act like WMP 11. never used WMP11 so i can't say, sorry.

 

[pspuser007]

I was using it a lot at WinXP, I haven't had any problem.

Well, about the link you gave me, this WMP11 is in English.
I have the installer of a Greek one but it is an older version that the one is used to downgrade.
Is there any way to install the Greek WMP11 I have?


**Thank you for the replies!**

 

[pspuser007]

Wmp done with updating the library.

BUT if I have WMP at my music library with "all the music" appearing and close the program, I open it again then it will take a lot of time for the list to show up.

Altough, if I have WMP at a music album with not too many songs and close the program, open it again it will load faster!

So the problem is that WMP 12 cannot manage a lot of songs generally.
Is there anyway to avoid that?


**Is MicroSoft aware of that??!:sarc:**

Thank you.

 

[harpua]

One way to avoid the problems with WMP 12 and music is to use a different media player for music and make it the default.

I use Aimp2 as default player for music and I'm very happy with the way everything works on W7. Rarely do I use WMP for anything.