Ok bad points first then good points.

After installing i had to re-rate about 300 tracks, why did they un-rate???

Yes it works, its works quite fine, but (and this is a big but) why change the font for the "now playing, library"...etc buttons, makes it harder to read when WMP is set at different colours. I would suggest a more bolder font.
Play, stop, next, back, mute and the volume slider look jagged, instead of the triangle shaped slider use something else, not sure what but someone experiment to get rid of those jagged lines.
There are way to many "grey" buttons (next viz, previous viz, full screen,) in the video/viz window, i want to have a full area that i can view something in.
I do not like all the added auto playlists and will be deleting most of them, the ALL pictures is useless, i dont expect many people would use it if they already have microsoft fax viewer and i expect they do seeing as wmp10 is for XP.
When looking for music in my collection, i prefer to see all of the information infront of me without having to re-arrange field names, maybe auto size should be on by default.


Ok enough with the bad comments, good ones from now on.
I love the right click "open folder" command its so useful!! thank you MS.
The show/hide menu bar button has been gratefully moved, i used to accidently move it when moving wmp around screen.
The seperate animated graphic equalizer is great when i shrink wmp window to its smallest but tends to pause if i select wmp, when i click next track there is a slight but noticeable delay as a bubble (?) type thing appears while track is loading.
Being able to seek through the track when wmp is in toolbar mode is yet another great bonus but yet again font needs to be bolder as i find it hard to read at a glance.
After starting a video when wmp was in smallest size it resized to show the video which was nice, as i didnt miss any of the video. Full screen worked better than before, no lag between full screen with top and bottom wmp toolbars and fully maximised (very impressed).
Task manager is sayin that wmp10 is using less CPU %, about 06-10 which is much lower than 20-25 ish i was getting with wmp9

In all if wmp was released to the general public now i would give it an 8/10, with a few minor tweaks like the font which is my main concern it could go up a notch to 9/10 i could give 10 but nothing is ever perfect.

"quifffy" wrote:

1.) Ok bad points first then good points.
After installing i had to re-rate about 300 tracks, why did they un-rate???


Tools > Options... > Library tab > check the box for 'Maintain my star ratings as global ratings in the media files'


2.) In all if wmp was released to the general public now i would give it an 8/10, with a few minor tweaks like the font which is my main concern it could go up a notch to 9/10 i could give 10 but nothing is ever perfect.


In my review I gave WMP10 a 7.80 out of 10.00 ;) And then after everything was fixed I would probably rate it a 9.50. And your comment about 'nothing is ever perfect' was in my review too.

Seem's like we're on similar pages of how WMP is performing. ;)
My review - which was posted earlier:
http://www.shadowsillusion.com/blog/...ical-beta.html


Regards,

-Shadow