Windows Media Player is a godawful pile of shit

Obā-san · 2013-03-03 16:43:12

just throwing that out there

Princess Alice · 2013-03-03 16:47:29

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glennmagusharvey · 2013-03-03 17:27:18

If I uninstall it will thsat break anything?

Tachyon · 2013-03-03 17:28:20

it will break the news but nothing else

sunn wolf · 2013-03-03 17:30:34

winamp

Previous Calica · 2013-03-03 18:04:51

At least it has one thing going for it: at least it's not iTunes.

Section42L · 2013-03-03 18:08:53

foobar2000

glennmagusharvey · 2013-03-03 18:17:09

> foobar2000

I approve.

But what if I uninstall Windows Media Player? Will that break anything?

Salix Babylonika · 2013-03-03 18:19:23

I don't understand how people can hate media players or prefer one over the other.

of course I don't know the apparently ecstatic joy of foobar2000 so what do I know

Imipolex G · 2013-03-03 18:45:16

I have had little difficulty with WMP and intend to continue using it.

Section42L · 2013-03-03 19:23:12

Imipölex G said:
I have had little difficulty with WMP and intend to continue using it.

Replace WMP with iTunes (since I have a Mac instead of a PC) and I essentially agree with you.

I only mentioned foobar2000 up there to follow the trend of shouting out media player names.

Previous Calica · 2013-03-03 19:27:57

glennmagusharvey said:
> foobar2000

I approve.

But what if I uninstall Windows Media Player? Will that break anything?

It'll probably break Iji, since Iji uses WMP's libraries or something.

RocketRunner · 2013-03-03 21:19:36

Can you even uninstall WMP on Win7? I had to disable it because it kept launching itself.

Viani · 2013-03-03 21:48:01

foobar2000+iPod extension+WMA extension

glennmagusharvey · 2013-03-04 01:46:38

^^^ Well poot.

I don't understand how people can hate media players or prefer one over the other.

You can if you don't like a certain program insisting on scanning your music folders for all MP3s with album art and making two hidden file copies of each piece of album art and adding them to that MP3's location, every time you turn it on for more than five seconds.

The rest of the dislike comes from Winamp and foobar2000 having more intuitive interfaces, which I can control via ZXCVB and arrow keys, as well as capability to handle lots of plugins, including those that can play video game music formats.

Justice4243 · 2013-03-04 02:32:59

VLC here.

Actually, I don't mind Media player in that WHEN it works, it usually gets all the audio settings on my movie correct without me having to play around with it.

Misery · 2013-03-04 02:56:22

Imovie sucks

Oh wait, that's not even a movie player

Viani · 2013-03-04 03:37:24

MPC is nice for vids.

Billyplayer for playing music while gaming, since it eats 80% less memory than foobar

glennmagusharvey · 2013-03-04 06:05:15

I could use VLC but I prefer CCCP for vids.

Previous Calica · 2013-03-04 12:09:02

CCCP comes with Media Player Classic, right?

Princess Alice · 2013-03-04 12:13:45

It does, yeah.

I prefer it to VLC as far as actual playback goes, though VLC's UI is nicer.

I switched to SMPlayer on Ubuntu because VLC would choke on DVDs on this laptop, for some reason.

Obā-san · 2013-03-04 12:15:35

i like vlc and foobar and itunes

Princess Alice · 2013-03-04 12:17:34

I used to use iTunes then I used Clementine but then I said "fuck it" and just started using Spotify

lee4hmz · 2013-03-04 12:18:31

On the lappy at home, I usually just use Totem. I get VLC out when I run into something Totem can't play.

Princess Alice · 2013-03-04 12:21:11

I seem to be the only person who wants to watch DVDs anymore.

But it's like, my hard drive isn't big enough to rip the entire 6 seasons of The Powerpuff Girls to, so what choice to I have?

Also: I still need to rip Beauty and the Beast, keep forgetting that

glennmagusharvey · 2013-03-04 13:38:29

What is Spotify anyway?

Section42L · 2013-03-04 13:47:53

Yet another thing I can't use because I live in Canada.

Tachyon · 2013-03-04 15:10:11

i like foobar. VLC is fine. iTunes can go die in a fire.

Viani · 2013-03-04 23:48:39

I use iTunes because I love the way it's set up and how simple it is to sync things, and I will never update it ever again.

Although if I can get Foobar to look nice AND synch my iPod I will switch to that immediately.

Tre · 2013-03-05 00:28:01

I'm a VLC boy when I have to be, now that Perian doesn't exist anymore in usable form.

I'd love to have Perian back though, it turned QuickTime into a legitimately good product. An achievement if I'd ever seen one.

Justice4243 · 2013-03-05 01:14:42

QuickTime

Speaking of godawful piles of shit...

Oh hey, anyone remember Real Player? I think I specifically remember frantic screaming as I rushed for the uninstall icon.

lee4hmz · 2013-03-05 02:12:53

I hate hate hate hate hate hated RealPlayer. Back in the day, it was the only way to watch certain things if you were stuck on dialup (or just had a lot of people to serve with limited bandwidth), and it sucked equally badly on Windows and on Linux (doubly so for me because I was a weirdo that ran FreeBSD at the time).

glennmagusharvey · 2013-03-05 02:14:58

I've tried using QuickTime Alternative and RealPlayer Alternative before and they don't quite work.

Thankfully, no one uses .rm, .ra, and .mov formats anymore.

lee4hmz · 2013-03-05 02:15:12

Also:

glennmagusharvey · 2013-03-05 02:15:38

YES

THAT IMAGE

Justice4243 · 2013-03-05 11:21:07

I've tried using QuickTime Alternative and RealPlayer Alternative before and they don't quite work.

Thankfully, no one uses .rm, .ra, and .mov formats anymore.

Man, it sucked back in the day when one of those formats came up. I'd be like "Shit, I have to open one of the FORBIDDEN programs." What would be worse if I'd manage to use a new computer or new operating system for several months without having to install either and then I stumbled on a file I wanted to play in one of those formats...

Sredni Vashtar · 2013-03-05 17:46:36

I'm fine with iTunes myself. Despite the recent interface change being a bit jarring at first, it has a pretty neat organisation system and I like the aesthetics.

*shrug*

I'm very boring.

Fossilmaiden · 2013-03-05 17:47:56

My college used VLC as their standard player. It was kinda painful.

Sredni Vashtar · 2013-03-05 17:50:44

I can imagine. I don't even use VLC for .avi files at this point...

RocketRunner · 2013-03-06 13:49:22

...Shit, I use QT and VLC.

I have good reasons, though: I got QT because TF2 requires it for rendering Replays and it works if you want to view a GIF on your hard drive without having to open it in a browser. VLC I just have because...eh.

Sredni Vashtar · 2013-03-07 03:33:36

QuickTime isn't that bad. It's just very basic and requires silly modifications to do fairly simple things. I'd rather deal with it than WMP or VLC, at least.

RealPlayer is a royal pain, though. And I've been on sites where I've needed it...

Justice4243 · 2013-03-07 22:59:03

I'm not sure if it has improved since the years I've used it, but I do remember a little piece of my soul dying every-time I was forced to use it back in the day.

Obā-san · 2013-03-07 23:12:38

I've never had any problems with VLC myself

Justice4243 · 2013-03-08 01:41:49

VLC is pretty great to me in that it plays everything.

I often have to tell it the thing I'm playing should be in 5.1 sound, but the fact that I can even DO that makes it pretty good in my book.

Sredni Vashtar · 2013-03-08 07:13:05

Justice42 said:
I'm not sure if it has improved since the years I've used it, but I do remember a little piece of my soul dying every-time I was forced to use it back in the day.

QuickTime? It has. That being said, I still barely use it and prefer to not have to.

Then again, I haven't used VLC in aeons, either, so I'm probably being unfair to it based on bad experiences.

WMP is still suffering, though.

glennmagusharvey · 2013-03-08 07:36:55

Relevant: http://itjustbugsme.com/forums/discussion/comment/320864#Comment_320864 and thereafter

sunn wolf · 2013-03-08 08:24:54

fffuuuuuuuck quicktime 4ever

vlc is pretty cool because it plaays all of the things

Sredni Vashtar · 2013-03-08 09:44:55

glennmagusharvey said:
Relevant: http://itjustbugsme.com/forums/discussion/comment/320864#Comment_320864 and thereafter

Scratch that: Windows is suffering.

Atone for your sins!

RocketRunner · 2013-03-08 19:31:48

Being Bill Gates is suffering.

Actually, probably not, since the guy is so rich that he donated a shitload of money and was still rich.

Justice4243 · 2013-03-09 13:39:10

The dude has like a bank account with a billion dollars in which he donates the interest every year to charity. He is so damn rich he can afford to be a philamprothist long after he's dead.

Justice4243 · 2013-03-16 15:24:06

It doesn't come up often, but Windows Media player is really handy if I want to burn a music CD.

Windows Media Player is a godawful pile of shit

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