• Tag Editor Plus: an alternative for WMP's Advanced Tag Editor. Tag Editor Plus works on WMP 12 too, where the Advanced Tag Editor has been removed.
• Global hotkeys, allowing you to control WMP from within any running application.
• Party Shuffle: a dynamic playlist, that automatically gets filled up with randomly picked songs. Of course, you can still add songs yourself, and reorder/remove songs, just like with a normal playlist.
• Real 'find as you type' in the library: you can simply start typing to search, without having to click on the Search field first.
• Access the standard Explorer right-click menu of a media file directly from within WMP.
• Restore last active playlist, media item, and playback position at WMP startup.
• Show currently playing media in WMP's title bar.
• Advanced playback options: Stop after current and Close after current, to automatically stop playback or close WMP when the current media has ended.
• Let WMP play/pause when you press the space bar.
• Disable group headers in the Library Pane.
• Enhanced and configurable replacement of the Windows Live Messenger Music plug-in (What I'm Listening To).
• Show currently playing media in Skype's mood message.
• Access the properties (settings) of any WMP plug-in from within the main menu (Tools - Plug-in properties), without having to go to Options first.
• "Play next" option when right-clicking a media item in WMP 11's library (WMP 12 already has this by default).
• Quickly re-enable all plug-ins after a WMP crash.

hey tim thanks for the work on this one.

when i saw the screenshot for the tag editor plus i thought maybe you had figured out a way to force WMP to sort by disc number.  the problem is that it writes the field but WMP doesn't use it to sort.

... So for example, for a multidisc release of AwesomeAlbum, "AwesomeAlbum Disc 1" and "AwesomeAlbum Disc 2" will give you the proper ordering in the library. I know this because I've manually added multidisc albums to my library before.

Basically WMP takes its defaults from the AMG metadata lookup service it uses. If you use AMG's conventions for manually edited tracks as above, you'll be OK.

Quote from: LANjackal on 2010-05-25 13:57:56

... So for example, for a multidisc release of AwesomeAlbum, "AwesomeAlbum Disc 1" and "AwesomeAlbum Disc 2" will give you the proper ordering in the library. I know this because I've manually added multidisc albums to my library before.

Basically WMP takes its defaults from the AMG metadata lookup service it uses. If you use AMG's conventions for manually edited tracks as above, you'll be OK.

that was kind of discussed in the links i provided above.  it really is a personal preference thing, and for conformity to the standards of multiple other players.  the field is there, WMP sees it and can write it, but it does not use it to sort, so i was inquiring if it would be possible to tell WMP to use it.  i don't want to seperate the album into different discs.  i want to go into MC and chose play album once and have it play the whole album in the right order.  i have a twelve disc collection of bethoven sonatas and would have to add each one when really it is a full release.  the workaround i used for now was to set the tracknumbers to 101-110, 201-210, etc...  this just messes up support in other players somewhat.

Show currently playing media in WMP's title bar.

There are also requests to make the space bar function as play/pause (it is not mapped to anything else)

Yes, WMP Plus! 2.0 will definitely add a global hotkeys feature to WMP, and hotkeys for skipping forward/backward will be included too.

Quote from: timg11 on 2010-06-05 15:18:30

There are also requests to make the space bar function as play/pause (it is not mapped to anything else)

In WMP 12, the space bar does seem to work for playing/pausing, but only when certain parts of the window are focused (like the Library or Playlist pane). I'll see if I can add something in WMP Plus! 2.0 to make it work regardless of the focused window, this shouldn't be too hard.

Yes, sorting by disc number is certainly something that I'm going to look into for the next major version of WMP Plus!. I can't promise anything yet though, it may be too hard or simply impossible to implement.