Het spelen met Speler 12 van de Media van Vensters

Ik heb een tijdje nu gehad om enkele betere eigenschappen in Vensters 7 te ervaren meer intiem bouw 6801. Één van mijn favoriete afgelopen tijden op PC luistert natuurlijk aan muziek. Ik zou mijn inzameling als meestal Populaire muziek met talrijke selecties van het Ritme en van Blauw beschrijven. Ik luister Rots en Alternatief maar niet te agressief. Speler 12 van de Media van vensters is geen drastisch vertrek van versie 11, voegt het aardige verhogingen toe die het in dienst nemen van het merk met uw muziek meer pret.

Speler 12 van de Media van vensters eigenschappen koelt interface

Het merkbaarste verschil wanneer u eerst Speler 12 lanceert van Media is de veranderingen in hoe UI nu wordt opgemaakt. Maar alvorens wij in dat gaan, laat bespreking over enkele eerste stappen klaar beginnen te worden:

Opstelling:
De Speler van de Media van vensters komt nog gebundeld in Vensters, 7. Zo in tegenstelling tot sommige toepassingen die eens gebundeld met OS maar nu een deel van Levende Golf 3 van Vensters reeks zijn, moet u niet het downloaden. Enkel als versie 11 wanneer u uitvoerbaar voor het eerst lanceert hebt u een keus tussen het doen van een „Uitdrukkelijke“ of van de „Douane“ opstelling. Natuurlijk, zou ik willen zien of zijn er om het even welke nieuwe veranderingen, zodat laat met de Montages van de Douane gaan.

De meeste gemeenschappelijke opties u accustom aan het zien tijdens dit gedeelte van opstelling bent zijn daar, de eerste verandering die ik ben de optie om uitvoerbare Speler 12 van Media aan uw Desktop toe te voegen heb gezien, die ik zie heel wat personen, zodat als een optie van de merkbetekenis kijkt. Daarna kunt u verkiezen om de Speler van Media tot uw standaardmuziek te maken of videoSpeler of specifieke dossiertypes te kiezen u het zou willen spelen. Speler 12 van media steunen talrijke formaten nu, merk ik liederen op dat ik tot het spelen in iTunes moest zijn toevlucht nemen speel nu enkel boete in de Speler van Media b.v. MP3 het Geluid van het formaat en merkgebonden AAC.

Er zijn vele nieuwe het gesteunde codec maken WMP 12 een welomlijnde keus voor Media.

Nadat u het opstellingsproces hebt voltooid, wordt u begroet door de media speler, dat u onmiddellijk aan de muziekbibliotheek neemt. Gebaseerd op mijn observaties, past de Speler van Media een combinatie de broodkruimelmenu's van de Ontdekkingsreiziger van Vensters die aan u helpen om de manieren van de spoorweg door een omslaghiërarchie maar in dit geval uw plaatsen van de muziekbibliotheek gemakkelijk te steunen. There is also separation between task and locations as evident by the location arrangements and features like 'Play', 'Burn' and 'Sync' which are now situated on the far right of the interface. The familiar back and forward buttons are still there and makes it easy to move between different areas of the interface.

Below these options you will find a second toolbar which display menus for Organizing, Sharing, creating a playlist, library view and searching in addition to Help. The Navigation Pane situated on the right of the interface is revamped with a new addition. In Media Player 12 Library links such as Year, Rating, Songs are now a part of the library table. You can still find Navigation Pane options under Organize > Customize Navigation Pane. The Recently Added link has been removed. Two new library links Video and Pictures are available providing a central location to truly view all your media. Today's Portable Players are complex media devices that not only store music and videos, but also photos and those are just two more of the great things users can look forward to in this release.

Lets look a little closer at the different components and within their locations:
Play tab - a combination of 'Now Playing' (which exist now only as a mini playing mode - discussed later) with Playlist wrapped into one. Its quite convenient and provides the option of easily navigating back and forth between your custom playlist while also viewing your main library of music. When a song is played from a particular artiste in your library, all songs from that artiste are automatically aggregated into the

'Play' tab. I wish there was a separator to make it easier to identify different albums from the artiste.? I wish there was an option for one song within that active playlist to have the option of Repeat when selected though, instead playing over the entire playlist or having the user manually choose to play over that particular song by double clicking.

Burn tab - provides the same functionality as previous versions without the need to leave your music library. Some nice options are available such as Eject Disc After Burning, Apply Volume Leveling Across Tracks on Audio CDs and Name Disk (not checked by default).

Sync tab - provides synchronization capabilities for your portable player. I was not able to accurately test this since I do not own MP3 player at this time, but similar options available in prior versions are just the same in this release.

The new mini playing mode, also works for video clips and movies.

If you find activated Tabs distracting, you can easily hide them by clicking the Tab once which will show the entire library. Organization of music in Media Player 12 has been greatly enhanced and the new layout of songs in the library provides a more simplified, yet detailed approach to interacting with your collections. I do find it frustrating that certain areas still cannot be customized, for instance, the Album art column cannot be unchecked, I would like to use that space for another column such as Date Added or Play Count.

One of the nice things I like about playing songs from my personal ripped collection of albums, when I hover the mouse pointer over the Album art in the 'Play' tab, it does display buy. I find that annoying in Media Player 11, I already have the album on my hard disk, why is it suggesting that I purchase the album, a more neutral 'shop' link is displayed which could suggest buying more music from that artiste. You can also preview tracks in your library. You might ask, how different is this from simply double clicking a track and listening to it for a few seconds. When you hover a track and click the preview song link on the floating balloon, you will hear the song for approximately 15 seconds, the sweet part is, when you have heard enough, you simply move the pointer away from the floating balloon which will stop playing the song. The Windows Media Player Team could make it even more innovative by simply hovering over the preview button without any manual clicking.

Windows Media Player becomes a true media player, you can also play slideshows.

Working with Management
Options once available under hidden drop down menus for each button of the player interface in Media Player 11 (Now Playing, Library etc) are now clearly exposed through Organize, Share and New Playlist.

Organize - Features menus for managing your library content, whether its Pictures, videos or Recorded TV. You can customize and arrange your library views by checking or un-checking columns in addition to customizing the Navigation Pane displaying drop down menus and access entire options for Media Player 12.

Share - Here you will discover the option of sharing content in your library with devices connected to your computer or your home network. For this to be possible, Media Sharing must be turned on, it also supports streaming music, pictures and videos to these devices and you can pick and choose which devices can access your media. This greatly expands the media sharing capabilities first introduced in Vista where you could easily access another computers music library from Media Player 11 once Media Sharing was turned on in Network and Sharing Center.

New Playlist - has its own dedicated menu which allows you to quickly create new custom playlist of your favorite content. There is also a sub menu for a New Auto Playlist which is a playlist that changes automatically according to criteria you have specified.

Performance and Quality
Media Player 12 is faster based on my testing, songs instantly play when double clicked in the library. To reduce the waiting time to launch full media player when you might only want to play an album or a few songs, there is a Mini Player mode called Now Playing Mode. This convenient setup instantly opens when you launch a song from an Explorer for instance (by default), immediately your music begins playing, no waiting, no hitching and no glitches. Media Players familiar Now Playing tools are situated here with visualization effects (that I think needs to be updated) and album art in the visualization similar to 'mediaviz' that was released for Media Player 10. Its quite nice and makes it more fun playing songs from a folder when you are not particularly interested with working the full media player library. The Mini-Player itself is resizable and intelligent in doing so, it knows when to show certain player controls and reveals more when it resized to a larger size. If you want to go back to the full Media Player, simply click the 'Library Mode' button on the player controls. I would like to see an option to hide the window border though, to give it a floating appearance. I still would like the option of turning it off and go directly to full library whenever a song is double clicked from Explorer although you can easily switch Library mode from the player controls, it's just the extra step I would like to get out of the way.

Quality is very good, audio comes back pumping and clear to the listeners ears. This is something I have noticed since version 11, but I think it has more to do with the improvements to Audio in Vista. Since audio sounds puny when played in Windows XP I get a much richer experience on both Vista and 7. I remember during the Vista betas, even at BETA 1 the quality of audio in Media Player 11 was horrendous. For a pre-beta release its excellent and very stable. I imported 5.4 GBs of music (which is significantly small compared to some libraries), but there were no problems doing so and all my tracks were recognized along with album art. What I notice about miscellaneous tracks in a folder that the meta data such as song information and album art in particular needs to be downloaded again regardless its there hidden. There is also a mis-match of album art for different songs and artiste - kinda funny seeing Bill Haley's Jingle Bell Rock represented by Shanice Wilson's Greatest Hits.

You can enjoy your videos and movies in a number of cool ways from full screen to mini.

Watching Video
Watching movies is a favorite activity in media player. Version 12 adds some improvements such as automatically going into full screen mode when you insert a DVD. There is also support for the new Mini-mode which looks lovely. From a technical point of view, Media Player 11 supports new video codec's which were once available through Third party vendors, some include: MPEG-4, 3GPP standards, H.264 video, DivX and xVid. This of course delivers a richer playback experience for the consumer, which results in less disappointment, something which was true of Media Player 11. Often you would download some particular video just find out the correct codec is not installed to view it.

Overall, Windows Media Player 12 looks like a solid release that will surely keep loyal users happy. Its fast, great design and user interface make it great application that I will continue to turn to for my media. The ability to now work with photos in addition to video is just a great way of defining WMP 12 as a true media player. I will continue to watch this release as it progresses. Will Microsoft make WMP 12 available for previous versions of Windows? I sure hope so, it has been a tradition for past versions so I don?t see why an exception would be made for this release.

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