Windows Media Player 11 released
Reply #30 – 2006-11-08 13:04:50
Also they removed the Advance Tag Editor , that was dam useful and they also removed the track length time on the playlists . You want some cheese with that whine? They did not remove the Advanced Tag Editor. It's right there when you right-click any of your music files: Advanced Tag Editor. All right it is still there but it is in the Media Library instead of the playlist like on 10, silly me. Microsoft does have some habbits of hidding any useful features.WMP 11 is gapless with WMA ripped from CD (or purchased from a music store) in almost all cases. But you are correct... there are no improvements with the fairly generic FhG MP3 decoder they use. So there is no support for LAME gapless MP3 nor any "tricks" to guess, like iTunes 7 now does. The incorrect initial average bitrate reading on MP3 VBR (LAME) is still there. Maybe next version they'll lose FhG. WMP 10/11 does store a more accurate MP3 bitrate average in the WMP library once the track is played to the end, though. Yes, the Advanced Tag Editor is still there. It's mostly hidden for a reason: It's not that great for the masses and it hasn't been updated to support all of the metadata fields now available. The Total Items and Total Time do appear in the top of the List Pane under the Album Icon/Info when in the Now Playing tab... while stopped... and maybe some other scenarios. I ripped a CD to WMA on WMP11 beta 2 to see if WMA playback is gapless and it was not gapless at all. And the chances of M$ of improving mp3 support is low becuse the want you to use their crappy audio codec. Yeah the tag editor on WMP is quite dated but WMP does write tags without any problems unlike with Winamp + iTunes does.