Comments

1. sirlantis

   
   Posted on: June 16, 2009 at 7:23PM  

   I really miss the ALT-key effect (like in Office) in WMP, there's not enough space in my head for all those shortcuts!

   Well, took the chance to increase my album art images ;) Is this option even available without the shortcut?
2. experiencemusic

   
   Posted on: June 16, 2009 at 8:27PM  

   Why in the world is the team choosing cntr+p to play/pause??

   It should be as simple as spacebar! Which does not seem to be mapped yet.

   Cntr+P requires two hands, is buried among other keys, and as such probably requires the light on because it cannot be found blindfolded. This is stupid!
3. Brandon LeBlanc

   

   
   Posted on: June 16, 2009 at 10:05PM  

   sirlantis, just bookmark this blog post ;-) I do not believe the ability to increase or decrease album art images is available or exposed outside the keyboard shortcut.

   experiencemusic, I'm sorry you are dissatisfied with the keyboard shortcut for play/pause. Thank you for your feedback!
4. TonyXiang

   
   Posted on: June 17, 2009 at 1:03AM  

   Well, I think in most cases these keyboard shortcuts don't make sense, because whey don't work when WMP isn't the active window.

   But actually WMP will be minimized when most people are working, playing or chatting. And when they would like to play the next music for example, they should firstly let WMP be the active Window and then apply the Keyboard. This is obviously so inconvenient.

   My solution is to buy a multimedia keyboard with some Playback-Control bottons. I think some critical actions such as play/pause, stop, next should be allocated the keyboard shortcuts that could be applied whenever WMP is the active windows, even if I'm in a full-screen game.
5. someone

   
   Posted on: June 17, 2009 at 1:14AM  

   Dear WMP team, I'm not very pleased with the WMP12 UI in Windows 7, although built-in codec support is a nice feature. The buttons to switch between library mode and Now playing are far apart (one at the top of the screen and one at the bottom), now I know keyboard shortcuts but still when using the mouse it is very cumbersome. Why can't the button be in the same place, that is, overlap each other. Also, I don't like how in the minimal view, all the windows are separate boxes (equalizer, video settings etc) that go behind when some other window takes focus. The Advanced Tag Editor is gone. Why? Also, any flash drive I connect shows up as a portable device, why can't I exclude which Flash memory devices I want to use as portable devices for sync? Even if I modify/customize the Now Playing window, the settings such as "Show playlist" don't stick. I know it's hard to please everyone, but the UI's been changing in nearly every version forcing me to re-learn things all over again.
6. Arnold

   
   Posted on: June 18, 2009 at 10:37AM  

   How do you move WMP back to your monitor when the TV is off?

   Previous versions allowed you to click on the task bar icon, select Move, press any arrow key then hold the left mouse button and drag WMP (or any or program) back into view.
7. sunrise

   
   Posted on: July 14, 2009 at 12:41PM  

   Not sure if this the right place to provide feedback.

   some features in WMP on XP/Vista are missing on Win7:

   . unable to view/statistic (e.g. to trouble shoot the video streaming), file/property during playback
8. vitormv

   
   Posted on: July 27, 2009 at 7:12PM  

   I agree with "experiencemusic":

   Why in the world is the team choosing cntr+p to play/pause??

   It should be as simple as spacebar! Which does not seem to be mapped yet.

   Cntr+P requires two hands, is buried among other keys, and as such probably requires the light on because it cannot be found blindfolded. This is stupid!