Windows Media Player 11 Beta

Anusha

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Ok.

I have used WMP11 beta in both XP and Vista beta 1 (hey I downloaded it and installed it as the second OS) and all I can tell is that they have improved some features from WMP10 and at the same time have killed some of the important things.

Pros.
1. The media library is hell cool (small bugs are there - hey it's still a beta) and searching is very efficient
2. WMA10 support (but this can be added to WMP10 by installing the codec)
3. In Vista, it is beautiful!!!! (but nothing more)

Cons.
1. Don't play with the media in your library (renaming, tag editing) because it screws up everything (that is only if you have a well organized media collection right now)
2. The timer (elapsed and remaing) are not shown so we have to use our own imagination
... and some minor bugs (nothing alarming though)

There is a hacked setup floating around (in torrent sites), which would by-pass WGA check.

Cheers,
Anusha