Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2

[Lemonzest]

Anyone got this working in Server 2003? i have tried most of the tricks, but says cannot validate update.inf

[mancode20]

My only complaint so far: Those new icons are cool but I don't like how they stole my associations, even though I specifically set it to NOT do so. So now all my mp3's are associated with WMP and Windows Explorer shows the new mp3 icon. I don't want that. I want my mp3's associated with Winamp and the Winamp icon that I chose. Why do programs insist on stealing associations?

[Mystical112]

cool thx...

[Preppy Veteran]

  mancode20 said:

My only complaint so far: Those new icons are cool but I don't like how they stole my associations, even though I specifically set it to NOT do so. So now all my mp3's are associated with WMP and Windows Explorer shows the new mp3 icon. I don't want that. I want my mp3's associated with Winamp and the Winamp icon that I chose. Why do programs insist on stealing associations?

I personally wrote almost all of the association code here. I will follow up with a PM here: I imagine you ran through it in Express mode, which as it says will "Make Windows Media Player the default music and video player...". If that is *not* the case, I would be extremely utterly interested in fixing your issue, as I have zero interest in 'stealing' associations ever. Please check your PMs: let's follow up on this.

[superhuman]

  Tom W said:

Exactly the same here. I wonder why this build has issues.

Why the hell they remove the support for compressed tag? It makes all most all mp3 files unplayable and ID3 tag in WMP Library becomes crap.

It is a suicide. iTunes and other music players will win if they continue to do so. :no:

I have been complaining about this issue on their forum a lot. Not sure what will happen. I really love the "Browsing Album Art" features. If it is not because of that, I don't even want to use WMP.

[Preppy Veteran]

If you want to provide a link to a sample piece of afflicted content, that's more interesting. There's ton of different tagging utilities out there that do all sorts of strange things. It'd be good to understand what's either wrong with WMP or the content that causes this badness.

Edited September 1, 2006 by zachdms

[Michael_C]

If you go into compact mode the mouseovers all screw up, the mouseover images stay even after the mouse is moved away.

[:: Lyon ::]

So if I already have Vista Pre-RC1, I don't need to install this beta 2?

[Slimy]

I can't wait to try this! I'll be giving it a shot when I get back to Toronto, in vista and xp :D

Can someone post a screenshot of the 'mini' wmp11b2?

[1WayJonny]

  zachdms said:

If you want to provide a link to a sample piece of afflicted content, that's more interesting. There's ton of different tagging utilities out there that do all sorts of strange things. It'd be good to understand what's either wrong with WMP or the content that causes this badness.

you gonna fix what you did or should continue are convo in here?

let me know

[1WayJonny]

  slimy said:

I can't wait to try this! I'll be giving it a shot when I get back to Toronto, in vista and xp :D

Can someone post a screenshot of the 'mini' wmp11b2?

here

[DG55]

I get a problem with WMV embedded. It only happens on beta 2 not WMP11 Vista though. It displays correctly then snaps to a different height which squashes the video.

Check it out...

http://www.unknownbeings.co.uk/shortfilms/...n/movie_sm.html

[ludeboy12]

hmm....wonder why i cant get mine to embed in the taskbar with this build.

[JustGeorge]

  ludeboy12 said:

hmm....wonder why i cant get mine to embed in the taskbar with this build.

Did you uncheck the WMP option for the taskbar before installation like the install procedure instructed? If you missed it, then it might've screwed something up.

[ludeboy12]

ok it apparently unchecked it. dont know why i didnt think to check that first. duh.

[McoreD]

To install in Server 2003, need SP2 (beta) installed.

After that:

Extract wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe,

run wmfdist11.exe in XP Compatibilty mode

run wmp11.exe in XP Compatibility mode, installs WMP11

[eSouL]

BUG since WMP v11 beta 1:

I cannot type Unicode characters (Chinese in my case) into ID3 tags of MP3 files via Windows Explorer's file properties dialog anymore. After saving and re-open the file properties dialog, the Unicode fields will turn up blank. It didn't happen before I had WMP11 installed. Note that this only affects MP3 files (and possibly others but I haven't try). For WMA files it works just fine. How annoying!

[L3thal Veteran]

Bah, no native x64 support :cry:

[sanctified Veteran]

Cant install :( and neither cant uninstall beta 1

[coth]

  L3thal said:

Bah, no native x64 support :cry:

yeah well... i'm very disappointed with microsoft in this time. year and half has gone since xp x64 is out and they still not able to get it fully working on there... even - how much people work on wmp? one, two? i doubt that more... (repost from closed thread)

[Herby]

Repair the WMP Toolbar (mini mode): Run "WMP Toolbar.bat" (attachment).

It re-registers wmp.dll & wmpband.dll.

Remove URGE as default Online Store: Merge "Remove URGE.reg". :)

WMP11.zipFetching info...

[Preppy Veteran]

  sanctified said:

Cant install :( and neither cant uninstall beta 1

How can't you install? Any setup error is logged to %windir%\wmsetup.log - look for "ERROR:" in that file. We can handle this via PMs or the beta discussion forum. :)

[Herby]

Here are some regs to change the Deskband Pop-up Timeout. :)

The zip file contains:

DeskbandFlyoutTimeout_1sec.reg

DeskbandFlyoutTimeout_2sec.reg

DeskbandFlyoutTimeout_3sec.reg

DeskbandFlyoutTimeout_4sec.reg

DeskbandFlyoutTimeout_5sec_(Default).reg

Disable_Deskband_Pop-up.reg

Deskband_Pop_up.zipFetching info...

[NetShaker]

Why isn't WPM 11 beta 2 in other languages :(

[dh5]

Ugh, embedded bideo in Firefox is being a nightmare. The controls pop up in the box, then dissapear and the video plays in a huge size in only a tiny box.

to show what i mean, choose a video to play on this website

Here