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Re: Microsoft
said by Yeahwhatever:
If you don't like it don't use it. To me, they are mirror images of themselfs. What one does the other does exactly the same. I don't prefer any one media program, just whatever the media itself request I use. I have 4 different media programs on my windows based machine. I would like to only have to use just 1 but unfortunalty that is not the case. I'm sure that if a poll was taken, 90% of windows users have 2 or more media players on their pc and of that 90%, 89% have realplayer. this is retarded. Microsoft should just bundle everything in one HUGH pakage, that way people would complain about the size of the install. I take that back, Microsoft would just get sued for elusively placing the install file or something. What a load of crap. Microsoft is just playing the game better than it's competitors. nuf said!! I hate sore losers! The world would not be where it is today if it were not for Microsoft.
I'm right there with you. I've tried like 8 of them and NOT one of them has all the features I'm looking for.
since this topic is about WMP it dos NOT do CDDB lookups, so 50% of the CD's you own you can't rip with the right ID3 tags in them because in Microsoft's own MONOPOLISTIC mind if they don't own it, they won't use it, and they will make a half ass version until they bankrupt the original one
they have managed to get more companies to make plug in for them thatn any other and this makes WMP bettter in that respect, then ofcourse there was the old Real player that was actually a VERY good product until they went to the real 1 and real2 I bought those and SPECIFICALLY said no to the contant rebilling to my credit card BUT somehow they did anyway, this took a couple of phone calls to resolve, with no refund on what I was charged. has anyone noticed how WELL they hide the fact you are going to get charged 9.99 a month for music?
also why the heck is there no STANDARD to these plug ins so that one will work with WMP or WINAMP or REAL ?
I love the fraunhoffer plug in I bought for WMP, it is awesome in speed and quality, but only works with it.
real one does NOT have a quality mp3 encoder made on the fraunhoffer engine, intead they use LAME or some other not so great and slower encoder.
so we are ALL screwed on this sunject too.
10 years from now Microsoft will have bankrupted CDDB and just buy it out as usual........ |
