>microsoft shuts down Media Player CD Info servers just as the kids get back into CDswhy do they do ithttps://www.theregister.com/2026/01/09/microsoft_windows_media_player_forgets/
>>107829961Because like the Zune they finally accepted that Apple simply does it better.
>>107829990Nice cock brah
>>107830036Thank you brah
>>107829961Kek, just use any other player that uses standard CDDB servers, I think those are still up.
>>107829961Who the fuck uses Anything Microsoft included in the OS? Every time I used windows my first endeavor was to replace every function with a better app. Instead of WMP I'd use Winamp.
>>107829961nobody under 30 uses windows and zoomers dont own optical drives
>>107829961>omg that brittle JEWEL CASE>those printed paper inserts that smell like cancer>that slow transfer speed and delay>that accidental damage>that noisy drive motor making noise on idle and draining laptop batterycds and dvds are annoying as fuck and i threw them out in 2005completely obsoleted by:nocd crack.iso.torrent200+G hard driveflash drives
>>107829961you know i have to wonder what does it actually cost to keep this running?, i feel this sort of thing could litterally just be kept up as a background process and forgotten about, costing microcock $2 per year, to serve the dozens of people that use it
>>107830742owning a stack of cds or dvds instead of pirating is like owning a bulky stack of plastic land waste while larping about "copyrights" for youtube goodboy points and whining that online activation servers dont work anymore
