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Posted: 9th Mar 2005
Windows Media Player totally sucks and that's the end of it. Dump it. Don't worry about why, it's like wondering about the purpose of evil.. ( to thicken the plot said the Zen master...)

Get iTunes. Stable sweet and perfect on a Mac and I believe not too bad on a PC

.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....

Posted: 10th Mar 2005
"Windows Media Player totally sucks"

I think we have established that WMP wasnt the problem

and besides, why do you hate it?

Posted: 10th Mar 2005
Hey there UCOF. Because of all the above posts!! codes and codecs and xyzabc.stuffups's. And because of trying to use it on half a dozen peeps machines and there always being weirdo probs with it. Freezing, decoding itself and whatever else it can think of to do. ( yes I know I'm anthopomorphising here....

Just the other day I made a simple 7 track CD for a client, gave it to him to play and his WMP immediately went to to track three, ate his goldfish and then thew up on his shoes!!!! He stuffed around for 5 mins trying to get it to just go back a track, till I got cross and put it in my McLappie and had it going in about 3 secs.

But truly, I am spoiled cos of iTunes now.

.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....

Posted: 10th Mar 2005
UCOF, do you not think that software shouldn't tie itself in with the system to the extent that you can't fully uninstall is?


Thats my gripe with it. Most software will work again after a reinstall because it has all the files it needs to work, but WMP couldn't work without this (and mony) other files that other software uses.

Anyway, this could turn in to an anti-Ms rant that I know you hate.

newgabe, iTunes really is great, but it doesn't play video and that was pary of the problem. WMp does have a very bad interface after you're been using [[insert Apple made software name here]], but people use computers in different ways and UCOF likes to use WMP.

We however can sit back with that warm smug Mac user feeling and try our best not to make fun. (oops...there I go again...sorry UCOF...)

There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees

Posted: 10th Mar 2005
Yes thanks I feel appropriately ticked off in the nicest possible way!
Sorry for butting in on your thread there UCOF with my amateurish approach! I realise some people LIKE working out complex problems to do with codes etc whereas for me it is a sign something wasn't thought out well in the first place.. and it's rarely me who can think it out better!
WMP seems to have overreached itself though in trying to do both functions: audio and video, and ends up doing neither efficiently. A bit like my working life at the moment. Which I'd better get back to!

.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....

Posted: 11th Mar 2005
Oh no no no... it a pain in the arse trying to figure out what is wrong with a computer.

I love it when someone solves a problem for me.

Its just that no one could, and I think I must have had a divine moment.

Posted: 11th Mar 2005
Cool and i hope your life is full of them

Tomorrow I abandon the whole world of computers for two days and go play on the beach at Byron Bay YAY!!!!


See ya!!

.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....

Posted: 12th Mar 2005
MediaMactch Jukebox - it's the only way to go

Or a CD player

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Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude

Posted: 13th Mar 2005
It rained.

Back to computer land....
EDITED_BY: newgabe (1110724687)

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Posted: 13th Feb 2007
thnx man problem fixed god bless you!

Posted: 15th Feb 2007
Huzzah!
I fixed a problem without lifting a finger!



Isnt google great Mr Force?

Posted: 15th Feb 2007
and for bumping this I'm gonna have to try it...

now will it work for moviemaker too...

A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.

Posted: 15th Feb 2007
You are going to have to try what?
Will what work for moviemaker?

Posted: 16th Feb 2007
looking though updates I had a problem with a file in moviemaker not allowing any files to be imported... I have half fixed it now some can but some can't I know It's a useless editing software but I have nothing that great and my lady knows how to use it and she can do editing then

this thread just gave me some ideas for sorting out some of my duff files and some of them worked

A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.