You'd loved it though Tom. Media Center was pure epicness. I really wish
they'd kept it, made it play Blu-Ray Disks and so on. Oh well, VLC is
verry acccessible. Just keep Any DVD HD running as you play the disk.
That's how I did it.
On 1/29/2019 6:25 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
While I don't have any experience with Windows Media Center, I have used
Windows Media Player...and never was a huge fan of it! Having said that, at
one time, I used Windows Window to rip CDs as it seemed pretty straight-forward
to me; it already would rip the track titles right out of the box! But they
they changed the look of it; didn't seem (at least to me) that intuitive!
Tom Kaufman
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Trethowan
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2019 11:26 PM
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What you forwarded to the list comes as no surprise to me and yes Microsoft do
analyse usage data of their Apps.
Windows Media centre hadn't - when I last used it - been updated for a good
while and had at that time fallen behind many other alternatives.
I now use Plex to handle everything that Windows Media Center did though -
given I use Windows 10 - I couldn’t have used Windows Media Center even if I’d
wanted to as Windows Media Center doesn’t come as part of Windows 10.
I very much liked Windows Media Center however because of the infrequent
updates known problems with the App just weren’t fixed whereas Plex and VLC are
updated frequently.
As for upgrading to Windows 10? There are plenty of good reasons to do so
including better handling of audio and video devices, a far more stable
operating system etc.
Anyway its the individuals call.
On 29 Jan 2019, at 3:06 pm, Tom Kaufman <tomca...@comcast.net> wrote:
If you are running Windows 7 and like to use Windows Media Player, this may
be something you'll want to read!
Tom Kaufman
From: marianne Interest
Hi Tom,
If you use Windows 7 as I do, this may be of interest to you.
Windows 7's Windows Media Player app is about to get worse
By
Matt Hanson
3 hours ago
Software
No more metadata
As Windows 7 hurtles towards its end of life date (January 14 2020), it
looks like Microsoft is beginning to strip features from the ageing
operating system,
and it has now removed a key feature from Windows 7's Windows Media Player.
According to
a support document
that Microsoft quietly updated a few days ago, "you may be unable to view
information (metadata) such as the title, genre, and artist for songs, and
the
director, actors, cover art, and TV guide for movies in Windows Media Center
and Windows Media Player."
This move also affects the Windows Media Center app found in Windows 7,
Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.
So, it looks like when you import music or videos into Windows Media Player
in Windows 7, titles, artist names and other information won't be
downloaded.
This is a major blow to the usefulness of the app, in our view.
Why?
Microsoft looked at customer feedback and usage data regarding the feature
and decided to discontinue it, so it probably means not many people were
using
it.
If you were, it might mean it's time to finally upgrade from Windows 7 - as
you'll probably want to anyway before January 14 next year - or start using
an alternative such as
VLC Media Player.
While the removal of this feature is disappointing, Microsoft has promised
that metadata that's already been downloaded will still be available - it
just
won't download metadata for new media you add.
Microsoft has also explained that this change won't affect any of the app's
media playing functionality, such as playback, media stream and other major
features.
Still, it's a reminder that it's probably worth thinking about upgrading to
Windows 10.
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