Windows 7 Comes Out, Windows Media Player 12 Is Slowly Making Its Way Onto PCs Worldwide, Replacing The Current Version Of A Software Mane - Including Me - Have Not Really Had Much Love For. Considering The Number Of People Using The Default Applications, And The Ability To Use WMP12 For Windows 7 Out Of The Box, I Decided To Take A Closer Look.
Media Library
Music Library
Function WMP12 Library Supports Windows 7 Which Means That, By Default, You Will See The Music Library Music Folder - Which Is A Virtual Folder Consists Of Several User Folders From Various Places In The Team Set. This Means That The Consolidation Of The Music Is Not Driven By The Music Program, Operating System And That Means You Can Further Modify The Files Manually And Still Have Everything In The (Apparently) One Place.
When The Music (Which Is Handled Automatically Whenever The Points Of Your Windows 7 Library Folder Of Music Files Properly), You Can Browse Music And Videos (The Library Folder Of The Video Is Imported) In Variety Of Ways. The Side Navigation Bar Can Be Customized To Include Things Like The Year Of The Composer And The Folder With The Artist/Album/Genre As Default Options. The Folder Option Is Nice Because It Gives You The Ability To Browse Files Within WMP Itself, With Information About The File Path, The Number Of Songs And Albums On The Record And The Duration Total. The Other Options Work As Expected, Sorting By Artist, Year, Etc. There Is Also A Search Box, Which Instantly Stops Success As You Type.
Video Library
The Library Works More Or Less Like The Music Library, Giving You Options To Browse Folders And Metadata As Actors If Files Are Compatible With This Product. WMP12 Supports Formats Like Xvid And H264 Of The Box, Which Means It Will Pick Up Virtually Any File On Your Computer And Display - Thumbnails - In The Library.
Photo Library
As With Music Videos And It Gives You A Library Of Files That Can Be Browsed By Date And Metadata Such As Labels And Are Presented In A Grid Of Thumbnails And Videos Do. No Organization Tool Most Advanced Picture There, But Again Windows Media Player Is Not A Photo Organizer.
External Devices
WMP12 Automatically Collect External Devices, Including Removable Drives And MP3 Players Based MTP. External Devices Can Be Searched By Various Metadata Such As Internal Library, And Can Also Synchronize Content From External Devices To Other External Devices. MTP Devices Are Slightly Different, And While You Can Browse Not Play Anything From Them. I Also Noticed That AAC Files. M4A Locked iTunes Without DRM Were Purchased Videos On My Sony S540, Which Is A Monster. M4A Audio Only.
Network Media
Windows 7 Has A Built-In Home Network For Sharing Extremely Simple Means Of Communication Function. WMP12 Immediately Got Both On My Laptop With Vista Home Premium And Windows 7 Ultimate Office, The Last, I Had A Look Through WMP12 Easily. I Could Find And Play Music Very Well, But The Streaming Video Took A Few Seconds To Start - Most Likely Due To Slow Over My Wireless Network. Always Worked, And Played The Video When It Began Well. The Only Limitation I've Found With The Media Is That The Network Would Not Let Me Add Any Media To Sync List, And It's Only Going To Listen, And Not Forward. I Doubt It Will Be A Problem For Anyone That There Are Other Ways To Connect To Network Devices To Get The Files From Them, But A Little Boring.
Music Store
WMP12 Has A Built In Music Store, Essentially A Window Internal Browser Opens And Sends It To A Music Store. This Feature Is Not Working Correctly Here In Norway That I Could See But Not Buy, So I Could Not Try Everything. The Help File Also Says That You Can Add Your Own Music Stores, So If You Can Interact With The Amazon MP3 Would Make For An Awesome Device.
Playback
Music
Reading Music Is As Simple As Can Be In WMP12. It Can Be Performed While Doing Other Things On The Agenda, WMP12 Minimize A Window, Run The Full-Screen Playback, Etc. Unlike Previous Versions Display Has No Problems Switching Between These Modes And Not Jumps Before Doing So. You Have The Standard Options For Music Playback And Display Options For EQ, SRS, WOW And Other Sound Settings In A Separate Box. SRS, WOW, Well Integrated Into The Border Completely Useless Features Because They Distort Sound Way Too Much, I'm Glad To See They Are Taking A More Strategic Approach In The Style Of Winamp To Play With The Windows Photo Settings.
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One Thing To Note Is That While The Graphics (CPU) Display Was More Or Less The Center Of Attention With The Music Playing In The Earlier Versions Of WMP, This Is A Feature Rather Hidden In WMP12 With Album Art The Main Objective.
I'm Not Complaining.
Jump Lists Are A New Feature In Windows 7 Which Refers To The New Taskbar. Jump Lists Are Essentially Menus Accessible Directly From The Taskbar. WMP12 For Two JumpLists: The First Is Accessed By Right - Clicking The Icon In WMP And A List Of Recent Files Used With Some Options Open WMP, Play Any Music Or Play Where It Appears On The Left. The Other List Is Accessible Jump The Cursor Over The Icon (Or Left Click If You Have Multiple Windows Open WMP) And Provides Playback Buttons Directly On The Taskbar. With Windows Aero Enabled Which Includes The Album Cover, While The Basic Themes Windows Show Only Playback Buttons.
Video
The Video Playback Does Not Work In The Background (As It Would Sound) And WMP12 Automatically In Playback Mode With A Very Thin Window Showing The Video. As Mentioned Above, It Is Compatible With Multiple Formats Including XVID New And Play Well. A Little Hidden Feature Is The Built-In Support For Hardware Decoding Using Windows 7, Which Means You Can Use The GPUI (Graphics Card) For Video Playback In Locations Where Programs Like Vlc Depend Yet Only On The CPU. For My Netbook, For Example, Supports Dxva (Directx Video Acceleration), Which Means That WMP12 Can Play 1080p H264 Video Based On A Computer That Is Fast Enough To Run The Notebook Correctly. The GPU Acceleration Is Increasingly Common, And It Is Nice To See This Work As Well With Windows 7 And WMP12.
Photos
As There Is A Picture Library, There Is Of Course Also A Way To View Photos. By Clicking On A Window Reading Photo, Where The Photos Are Going To Start A Slide Show Opens. Personally, I Prefer Not To Presentations And Control The Display Of Pictures Myself, But If You Like The Presentation At Least Have The Option.
Syncing
As This Is An MP3 Player To A Website, The Main Reason Is To Check The Software To See How It Holds When Given The Task Of Managing Your Player. WMP12 Support Synchronization Of Both MTP And UMS Devices, As Clearly Demonstrated By Suggesting That I Sync My SD Card While Testing The Program. While It Is Annoying To See Each Removable Drive As "Device" In WMP12, It Could Not Be Easier When You Have A Device That Actually Want To Manage.
The First Time I Connected My Sony, I Tried To Drag Multiple Files Into The Sync List And Right Timing. When This "Synchronized" And I Realized That I Do Not Really Have Anything, Tried The "Configure" Synchronization Options You Get By Right - Click The Device In The Sidebar. After Accepting WMP12 Sync Tried To Sync Again And Started Working. I Do Not Think All The Videos From The Library And After Running The Water For A While And Am Embarrassed By How Long It Took To Sync, I Looked A Little Off In The Sync List And Saw That I Was Getting All My Work Library On The Player. To Synchronize The Music, I Had To Right Click Again And Then Find The Sync Options Reais (Which, Frankly, Would Have Appeared The First Time I Did It), I'll Take Videos And Photos From The List. After Only Transfer Music Synchronization And Everything Worked Well (And Not Delete Everything That Was Already In The Drive) .
The Lists Are Also Very Easy To Create And Transfer Using WMP12, You Can Just Create A Playlist, Drag Files To It, And Drag The Playlist To The Sync List. Will Be Transferred And Displayed In The Player, Unless The Player Has Problems Reading.
Basically, The Timing Is Impeccable. It Syncs Everything And Even Try To Convert The Files That The Player Can Not Play, If Any. But Third-Party Software, Best For Converting Files, So I Recommend Having All Inclusive Before Adding It To The Library.
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