Defending the indefensible: Windows Media Player

So, I'm playing the hit compilation "ILX has a bucket" via the WMP, and watching the psychedelic patterns...

and it's like it really understands the music!

a defend the indefensible too far

eh, i guess you can play dvds on it when yr computer's not fucking up

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man, that's irritating!

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' or in a word, I'm ...

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OK, so it only does that in the question now?

WMP give you a case of apostrohhea?

Nah, I was puzzled by the bonkers apos business in the question, and was trying to see why it did it.

It seems the 'question' dialogue box and the 'add a post' have different coding to them.

Still, swirly effects! Rotating stars! coasting/surfing blips! Wow....

LOL...yeah that's the only thing good I can say about Windows Media Player is all the trippy swirly stuff. A good friend of mine did a really slowed-down Spacemen 3 type track and he played it for me in WMP and the visuals complemented it perfectly. That said, I normally use Winamp instead.

Isn't the visualizer in WinAmp just as good? I think it's better, because you can write your own visualisations in a mini visual IDE.
One thing to be said for WMP, if you make your own MP3s, is that if they play in WMP, they'll play in anything.

I didn't know WinAmp had a visualizer, to be honest!

I use WMP and I'm happy w/it. I also watch the visualizations.

So, like, I'm all old and stuff and I'm digital audio illiterate and I use WMP because that's what the computer came with. So this week I've been on a major Squeeze binge (live at Radio City, 6 songs from Cool for Cats OK but only 3 from East Side Story WTF?!), and so I just ripped all my Squeeze into the computer. And I've got 2 "Some Fantastic Place" CD singles with 3 different b-sides on each, but when I rip them, not only does WMP think they are the same disc, but ripping one of them erases the other one from the computer! Even if I rename the CD and song titles! So WMP is pissing me off!

But I will defend the indefensible by excerpting the above:

"...I use WMP...!"

i use wmp too. never got the hang of winamp and iTunes eats up memory.

The most apt victim yet in this series of threads.

Bimble, click on "View", then "Visualisations". Or hold down Ctrl-Shift-K (on a PC anyway). Right click in the Visualizer window and select "AVS Editor" to get the mini-IDE programmer thingy.

Yeah actually I figured it out on my own, thanks snoball! Now I can have trippy visualizations and Winamp too! :) Life is too good.

The correct reply to this thread can be found here.

Well, I prefer Media Player Classic. Keeping it simple is often the best thing.

iTunes = WORST PIECE OF SOFTWARE EVER

media player classic is ok for vids.

yeah, on windows, media player was my preferred video player. it sucks for music though.