Windows Media Player - WHY DOES IT SUCK SO BAD?

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I'm using a brand new Dell (don't scoff) at work. This computer is nice, and fast, and basically fine in every single way EXCEPT for some reason whenever I'm listening to a CD on Windows Media Player there's inevitably a skip or burble or some sort of fuckup, no matter what condition the CD is in (this has happened on brand new ones as well as used ones). WHY? WHO THINKS THIS IS SOME SORT OF STANDARD?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

It has to check that you are not playing a dodgy Rolling Stones CDr.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link

are you doing lots of cpu intensive shit? digital playback in WMP uses the CPU, so you might get better luck making it do analog playback which is controller just via the CD drive!

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

dude I'm mostly just like surfing the web and occasionally using Word.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link

try that though

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I have this same problem at work. I think that it is the drive that that Dell uses. All of the ones in our office are so loud and sound like they're about to spin out of control, that the CD is always messed up. I usually just rip the CD and play it from mp3s.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, the drive is super-loud, too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

try downloading winamp from winamp.com and see if it helps.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Hiccups in performance of PC's CD player

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Hiccups in performance of PC's CD player <= try this one.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.wackypackages.org/stickers/10th_series/hiccups_small.jpg

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeh, stence... windows media player is certainly not the best player out there, but if you're having trouble playing plain old CDs then it's likely there's something going on with your drive more than software.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

fuck a Dell.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, fuck a dell!!!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

try itunes maybe? i find most windows cd/mp3 players are unstable.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

al;though I hope for the love of god nobody fucks this loser:

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

he did get fucked. for buying weed in a skirt. dell dropped his ass immediately.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Try taking your computer to Burritoville. See what they say.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah I know about that, a friend saw it! He used to live in the apt building of other friends of mine, but they said he can't afford it no mo'.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link

YOU MORANS WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER USES DIGITAL PLAYBACK BY DEFAULT

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link

my burritoville friends would fix it and then be all like "ORDER NUMBER 149! 149!" while bad house music pumps in the background and Scarface is on the TV for the billionth time.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

JW, WHAT DO YOU USE?

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

HI JON!

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link

DELL DUDE COMING OUT OF MAnHATTAN CRIMINAL COURT:

*CUE LAW AND ORDER MUSIC*

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link

my burritoville friends would fix it and then be all like "ORDER NUMBER 149! 149!" while bad house music pumps in the background and Scarface is on the TV for the billionth time.

lately it's been amores perros.

OH stence, the girl @ burritoville (okinya) has a crush on me and gives me free soda. however, i haven't been going there as much lately and i think she i mad at me.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

she is NEVER nice to me! so consider yourself lucky! I've got nothin' against her myself, think she's kinda cute in a weird way, but I swear she's out to get me.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link

okay hstencil, go into device manager, click on your CD Drive and then click on properties. the default should be set at "allow digital playback"... unclick the box. apparently this feature is a big memory suck.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I USE WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link

she used to be mean to me. then over the winter at some point she began to smile a little more, and then i would smile, and then i would order a mega soy.

she's lost weight recently.. she LOVES me!!

FREE SODER SUCKERS!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link

"device manager?"

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link

dude anybody can hook up one of those little cups with free soda when they're not looking (ie. 99% of the time).

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link

no, this is a real legit SODA cup. not some dixie cup sip sippin illegal shit.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

control panel > system > hardware > device manager

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

done, thanks gygax!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.chimpnet.com/images/yngwie.jpg

HSTENCIL U ROCK DUDE! WAAAH!

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link

don't thank me, thank JONATHAN WILLIAMS, ILX VILLAIN AT LARGE

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link

http://yngwie.org/gallery/images/Yngwie-Hames.jpg

GYGAX! THANKS FOR BEING SUCH A HELPFUL DUDE! ROWWRRRRRRR!

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link

so is anybody into BATTLES and/or ANTHONY BRAXTON?

holla back

― ddb, Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link

http://personal.tibonia.net/images/Mutanim.gif

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link

and/or dwight braxton?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I"m down with THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS DWIGHT BRAXTON.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.cutty.org/burritoville.jpg

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I love that napkin.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, i'm sure you do when you're wiping tasty red salsa off your chin

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, and when I'm wiping other substances off, too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link

FUCKLES!

I meant DWIGHT BRAXTON, i'm a doosh bag.

― ddb, Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link

so this is working a little better, yeah.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

screw it, I'm downloading iTunes.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:47 (nineteen years ago) link

in a similar vein, is there any way (or patch) to make windows/wmp able to read the duration and bit rate of VBR audio files correctly?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 27 May 2004 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link

much as I'm loathe to admit it, iTunes has been way better so far.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

of course it is.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 28 May 2004 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm going to try it out.

how does itunes compare to winamp?

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 28 May 2004 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link

OKAY FUCK iTUNES TOO! It just mistook my new Tod Dockstader CD for Robert Wyatt?!?!? What the fuck?!?!?!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link

i like winamp better than itunes.

(hstence it's probably cddb's fault not itunes')

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 28 May 2004 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link

well I can't figure out how to change CDDB's bullshit off my iTunes, where as winamp was easy to edit shit. MOTHERFUCK THIS! Computers suck.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link

winamp knows who Tod Dockstader is. Apple "avant-garde" "cutting edge" MY BLACK ASS!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

think different.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link

DON'T LET STEVE MOTHERFUCKING I'M RELATED TO MONA SIMPSON JOBS RUIN THIS MAN FOR ME!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I had to reinstall WMP, and now with the newest version, it loads on start up, and I can't find any options to disable that. HELP.

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 02:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Lady, if you can't figure out iTunes... Just hit "Enter" and rename it. It's CDDB's (Gracenote's?) fault.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 03:42 (nineteen years ago) link

fuck my CD drive sucks. shit's fucking up my Mambo Nassau listening.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link

uprgade to the new beta version of 10.0

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link

dude why can't they get it right the first time?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

three years pass...

On my Media Player 11 half of the album arts are The Cure's Disintegration, for some reason. I've never even played that shit, so what the fuck is going on here?

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 9 March 2008 13:21 (sixteen years ago) link

Perhaps it is some sort of spooky warning, like in a Stephen King novel.

― Bodrick III, Sunday, 9 March 2008 13:41 (sixteen years ago) link

Beware of fat Goths?

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 9 March 2008 13:47 (sixteen years ago) link

stephen king is a foobar man.

― tremendoid, Sunday, 9 March 2008 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link

Perhaps your house is built on a goth burial ground?

― Bodrick III, Sunday, 9 March 2008 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link

Nobody uses WMP. Install iTunes.

― libcrypt, Sunday, 9 March 2008 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link

Winamp for me.

― Bodrick III, Sunday, 9 March 2008 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link

Media Monkey for me.

― tremendoid, Sunday, 9 March 2008 14:26 (sixteen years ago) link

Hate iTunes. WMP has never actively annoyed me that much that I could be bothered to mess about with other players, but I'm trying out the Quintessential player at the moment and it seems okay.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 9 March 2008 14:26 (sixteen years ago) link

The polar opposite of iTunes is foobar, so if you hate iTunes, maybe you'd love foobar.

― libcrypt, Sunday, 9 March 2008 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link

An OCD pal of mine thinks that foobar should be its own operating system.

― libcrypt, Sunday, 9 March 2008 14:35 (sixteen years ago) link

it's like a rubik's cube. don't know why people want to complicate their lives in that way.

― tremendoid, Sunday, 9 March 2008 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link

ok maybe ocd explains it.

― tremendoid, Sunday, 9 March 2008 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link

Anyway this is all interesting but can anybody answer my original question? I.E. why the fuck is WMP doing that?

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 9 March 2008 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link

It's what we here in the Software Delolopment Industry call a bug.

― libcrypt, Sunday, 9 March 2008 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link

I hate iTunes, love WMP

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 10 March 2008 07:03 (sixteen years ago) link

WMP is pretty much the worst user interface ever

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 10 March 2008 07:13 (sixteen years ago) link

the Microsoft team is just finding out about people having trouble with their album art database in WMP 11, so it's too soon to ask us amateurs about it :-)
http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2620511&SiteID=50

― StanM, Monday, 10 March 2008 07:33 (sixteen years ago) link

most of the questions here seem to be about how to remove or hide the album art, so I'm sure they know about it by now - fixed in the next update, maybe?

― StanM, Monday, 10 March 2008 07:39 (sixteen years ago) link

media player classic niggaz

― teresa, Monday, 10 March 2008 07:43 (sixteen years ago) link

microsoft eat a long kodick

― teresa, Monday, 10 March 2008 07:44 (sixteen years ago) link

Herbert? Is that you? I thought they capped you!

― libcrypt, Monday, 10 March 2008 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link

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