Anyone tried it yet?
Not an abundance of new features but the new gui is nice and the albumstacks feature is a nice touch.
Better than expected

It does have a nice GUI, I like using it. Does slow right down now and then thought, but that could just be my computer. If also gives me trouble when I want to play videos. I like the layout of the media library aswell.

I thought it wasn't going to be released until Wednesday...

iTunes > Winamp > WMP11 > * > Any other media player > WMP10
This is just my opinion, although i have to give WMP11 credit for it's nice GUI

The user interface is like something from a dream! It's a really nice looking piece of software.

I'm in love with WMP11.. The way it displays albums/songs/artists is simply the best there can be.

AFAIK it's only been leaked or it's available on Vista, there's no official download link...

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.mspx

Link should be coming out soon (tryout beta).

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Originally posted by Knuckles
iTunes > Winamp > WMP11 > * > Any other media player > WMP10
This is just my opinion, although i have to give WMP11 credit for it's nice GUI

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if u want wmp11, you can find it on softpedia

i didnt post link since it might be a leak? but there is a link on m$ to the file so i dunno...

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Originally posted by Crimcz

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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
winamp > vlc > wmp11 > wmp10 > anything else > itunes

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I Agree. Plus this new library is annoying for people that have lots of music. Im sticking with winamp.

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Winamp>* ... I don't use Windows Media Player except at school.

looks good but i see no real reason to download it apart from viewing porno clips in

Yeah man! WMP 11 rocks! Used it on windows vista.
Btw, since when have Microsoft release it for windows XP? What I have seen on the internet is that, practically all of them, WMP 11 will be released this june.

The public beta of WMP 11 is to be released tomorrow (17th) but it has already been leaked.

I have around 7000 songs and a not particularly high-spec laptop. It is occasionally quite annoyingly slow but I find making the albumarts a bit smaller helps quite a bit.

I've not tried WMP11, but out of the WMP's I have tried, Version 9 is the best I think. Version 10 is nowhere near as good.

the gui is constantly stuck on black, the new library is annoying when you have lots of songs from lots of different artists, its very hard to 'just play' all your music, you have to make a playlist with them all in, then play that, unlike before just playing an item in your library added the whole list


I'm very dissapointed with this release, so i'm sticking to my itunes, which after various tests i found gives a better audio output anyway, doesn't crash, sits in system tray ^_^

winamp is shit though

when 11 beta gets officially released thats when i'll critisize it  but it looks good from what i seen of it , memory wise i dont know but if its a Memory Hog i wont use it

i just installed it, and it frezzes my computer when ever i attempt to drag the window to my secondary screen on my dual monitor system, obviously still some bugs left, anyway to report these?

Winamp > *

Anyways wlm11 has been leaked over a week back so this is old news

The download is now available on Microsoft! http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/e/e/eeeb...dowsxp-x86-enu.exe
Or the main page  http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/pla...load/download.aspx

no 64bit version.. M$$ are tards

Well... I was going to install it... I sat 10 minutes while it was installing... then an error occured and it said re-running the installer would fix the problem... I'm too lazy to do that at this point... ... Screenshots look good though.

I'm using it right now, and I the GUI!

I only can't get it in Dutch, since I'm on a MUI version of WinXP...
I hope they'll release an MUI package soon!

Ive never been a major fan of WMP but its a step in a better direction for MS hehe Stickin to Winamp for now though

It has the worst installer ... ever ! It really is bad, just makes me think how unprofessional the program could also be.

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Originally posted by absorbation
It has the worst installer ... ever ! It really is bad, just makes me think how unprofessional the program could also be.

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i'm about to download it... the screenshots look cool... i hope it is as good as i think it is

i'll remove it bugger

Did install yesterday. It looks pretty, but the way it does organize the song library is rather annoing. I guess just have to get used to it

Takes up ALOT of CPU usage, on mine it averages out at about 49-50% as well as everything else thats running,

over all because of it, my cpu usage is about 70-80% NOT GOOD

although yeah it is very sexy, no other word for it.

[update]Mini hub on the taskbar doesnt work either[/update]

it freezes my computer when ever you move the window

i do like the look though

thats it its really gud, but crap because of the errors init at the moment, but it will be ironed out, and will be fine on release (Hopefully)

Microsoft hate apple.

Going on about other portable devices and still no aac support

The taskbar is working for me and very nice UI

Hmm its drops down on mine, but is disabled. just me then

i just fixed my problem with the frezzing, i had to turn the hardware acceleration down on both monitors, but it works fine now

Great stuff mate

Synchronising with a device is way nicer on this one. For some reason, it seems to go about 4 times as fast as well, lol.

And it's sexy!

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The taskbar is working for me and very nice UI

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Omg vista ui
Seems decent tho. Lets check what this baby can really do ....

Either way im sticking with winamp

works great here
-good memory optimization (works faster)
-nice gui (matches my theme)
-improved library (even though i dont use it)

I have definitely noticed how it works much smoother. I love the GUI, it fits in with what I have very well. The only problem I am having is that all of my songs are doubled as my iTunes (for iPod) playlist was inside the My Music folder. Hence, when the songs were imported, they all appeared twice and this is a pain. Looks very nice though, I will give it a go for a while but I will probably end up back with winamp.

I have not got it yet but the screenshots do look nice

Yeah I have no memory loss now, was literally just a case of restarting, even though it didnt request it

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Originally posted by Crimcz
Plus this new library is annoying for people that have lots of music.

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I have been out for a while, i downloaded this like 2 days ago, I have a question. How do you turn on the tasbar mini player like it did on WMP 10?

Very nice GUI and a much more improvement over WMP 10, keeping it until the final version.

Right click your taskbar>Toolbars>Click Windows Media Player

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Originally posted by Lt.Col.DraGon
I have been out for a while, i downloaded this like 2 days ago, I have a question. How do you turn on the tasbar mini player like it did on WMP 10?

Very nice GUI and a much more improvement over WMP 10, keeping it until the final version.

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Originally posted by Mentality
Shouln't you have tried that before asking, then you wouldn't have answered your own question.

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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
wmp11 > wmp10 > anything else > itunes

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And it pisses me off you have too use it to put music on iPods
Good job I have linux (on my iPod)