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I uninstall the beta immediately also.. haha
I'm not sure for this release. but for the beta version that I tried, when I
double click a MP3 playlist, it takes forever to load.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tsuki_yomi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: MD: MS Media Player 7 is so cool!
>
> > From: "PrinceGaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 04:52:14 +0100
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: MD: MS Media Player 7 is so cool!
> >
> >
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Its been around for months but the first official release version of
> > MS Media Player 7 is on the Microsoft Windoze update site, and though
> > I shudder as I type the following words about an MS product-- this is
> > just too cool to believe.
> >
> > I've just touched the surface of its features but even its audio
> > playback screen has a fancy sound-to-light converter with loads of
> > types to choose from. I believe it can rip CDs to MP3s but havent
> > checked for that yet. At any rate it is light years ahead of the
> > previous version of Media Player (everytime I went to the MS update
> > and saw the Media Player 7 beta listed, I was tempted but resisted).
> >
> > Normally I tend to slag off MS but this product at first sight seems
> > great, wots more it's free!!! Is this MS trying to kill of Real and
> > MusicMatch and other multimedia software producers? There must be an
> > ulterior motive behind this seemingly wonderful piece of software.
> >
> > You guys are the best I know to ask, any thoughts on it?
>
> Personally I'm staying away from it.
>
> I have installed it to try it out, but it was removed almost immediately.
>
> I have a lot of video clips that play fine fullscreen under 6.4. I tried
> them in 7 and it was like I had a low end Pentium instead of the 550@645
> that I run.
>
> WMP7 suffers BADLY from terrible refresh rate and laggy control response.
>
> It may have some really cool features but if its that slow I'm willing to
do
> without them.
>
> The one good thing I will say is that it seems to uninstall cleanly ^_^
>
>
> --
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> James Budworth
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