Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2 released

you cant change player like 10 i thinks its not good. i like to used many player

Some of the skins I've made still don't work on this version. The scripting must be different now That really bites.

It seems to be a bit faster when perusing the library. There is a new option (or I've just never noticed it before) that allows you to go automatically into the mini player mode when you play files with certain text. I just put *.wma LOL

Some of the skins I've downloaded are showing magic pink now. That *should* be easily fixed.

Will check out how it works with my Zen Micro in a bit. See what else I can break.

Some Skins dont work, i wish i could go back to Beta 1 , i believe they were working with it.

I've got the first beta of 11 and the 30gig Zen video, It works very well to sync and go with it...also the browesing of it from within 11 is easy too....Hopefully the new beta will work as well...

Although WindowsMediaPlayer 11 Beta 2 is faster and it has cleaner design, aswell as new features, I would have to say that Beta 1 is better.

Yes Most skins don't work with beta 2, I don't know why, but some skins are missing files or have lost their color.

I did remove WMP 11 Beta 2 from my system and I'm still using WMP11 Beta 1 until the skin issue is fixed.

To remove it just system restore to the date it was installed.

just installed it. it works a bit faster then wmp 10. although I don't like the new look because it's soooooo black and dark otherwise the library view is very cool and easy to navigate.

Im still using the first Beta and some of the best skins from The Skin Factory dont show correctly... I think I will go back to WMP 10...

Although WindowsMediaPlayer 11 Beta 2 is faster and it has cleaner design, aswell as new features, I would have to say that Beta 1 is better.

Amazing to think that skinnability takes precedence over functionality and features.

At long last, media players on networked computers can share their libraries! AND devices!

I've got a large library, the new player smokes right through it. I like the 'compact mode' as opposed to the 'skin mode', though they should still have a skin mode option. I wonder why you still have to right click on the title bar to bring up important options. It's agaisnt the whole design of the player.

Yeah.. I'd say Beta 2 is better than the first...

However, some notable problems...

-WMP is "trying" to become iTunes.. As noticable of a rip off it looks with URGE..

-I have roughly 80,000 files to import... And it errors out whenever I try (same as I did in Beta 1).. I'd like to see "massive library support". Or importation if you'd prefer that term...

WMP isn't trying to become iTunes, it's already better than iTunes. I've subscribed to URGE, and now I can download and play as much music as I want to for just $10/month. And unlike other services such as Rhapsody, URGE is 100% completely and seamlessly integrated into WMP 11, so I can manage my URGE music alongside my other MP3s and WMAs from inside a single program, all with auto-organized folders, album art, and indexed searches.

Very slick, IMO.

I have roughly 80,000 files to import...

WOW! And I though my library with 4500 songs was big...

Amazing to think that skinnability takes precedence over functionality and features.

Yo.....'skinnability' is where it's at, man.....

If you have a Creative music player, please update your firmware BEFORE you update to WMP 11. Just take my word for it

Werewolf...I know what you mean. I have a Zen 30GB and I tried to upgrade my firmware after WMP 11 and I lost all my tunes, luckily they were on my HD but I had to uninstall WMP 11 and go back to WMP 10 just to restore my Firmware. I talked to Creative and they said they will have a fix soon...we'll see. Oh well I love my Zen so I'll wait!

Mark, glad to hear Creative is going to fix this. I think this is the cause of probably 80% of the firmware/"it's not connected" problems on those boards.

Love the new WMP 11 but have some questions. I am trying to update my library with WMP. I really like how it trys and put all the songs from the same Album together. On the left side of the songs some of the cover art is there and some isnt. I have been right clicking on the song and clicking find album info. It will usually find the song and it has the cover art to go with it when I lick finish it updates the song info along with the album info but does not put the cover art with the album. Now some of my song already have the cover art next to the album. The albums that dont have the cover art with them, where it should go it says paste cover art here. Does anyone know how to get the cover art to display there when it finds the album info from the internet? Id really appreciate it!

you can google artist-album name and go to google images, find one that is reasonably large and just copy that image from there and paste it onto the WMP cover art.