Why was it loathed?
>>109106844it wasn't
>>109106847/thread
>loathedPlaying a video or song from media player meant that you were a tech normalfag, but nerds didn't hate you for it. There was no reason not to install winamp/VLC/foobar/MPC-HC or even itunes which were clearly superior, but sometimes having fewer buttons is good for your dad or grandpa
because it couldn't play the special fileformat used by pirated movies so we had to install random divx players that could
>>109106847Correct. Proof not everyone is an idiot on here.
anon album art imagefile had certain naming and image dimensions
>>109106844Integrated DRM. Didn't include popular codecs like h264 by default until late in its life. By association with wmv which is a shit format.Still better than RealPlayer.
>>109106844The win7 and later version ruined the glass aesthetic of the vista version.
>>109106847fpbpwmp9 was the best, 10 runners up
>>109106844It could only play a small subset of file formats and i immediately dumped it for vlc
>>109106844K-Lite Codec Pack
>>109106847fpbp
>>109106844SORRY AN ERROR HAS OCCURRED TRYING TO PLAY THIS FILE (5 different error popups appear one next to the other)
>>109106844it was good in the window xp days, especially compared to itunes, but by the time windows 7 was mainstream VLC and literally anything else was just faster and nicer to runI did still use WMP for burning audio CDs as late as 2016 tho, didn't wanna have to download other shit
>>109106847>>109106851>>109107037>>109107549>>109108066^these noobs are clearly retardedAnyone who was anyone used Winamp, Coolplayer, or DeliPlayer. If you were new to the game then you might have used something like Quintessential, Foobar, MpxPlay, or Billy, but no one, and I mean no one, would have been caught dead using WMP. Instant lamer fag status.
>>109108501Notice how he didn't call me wrong
>>109106844It was all about GOM Player or K-Lite Codec Pack.
>>109108501did you wake up from a 20 year coma why are you talking like a faggot
>>109106844sup get on my level bro>*plays music over LAN on xbox 360 while playing COD4*
>>109108644He's right though. My gaming and script kiddie squads would have both embarrassed me to death.
>>109108624I remember when I found out about pic related idk wtf your post is but it looks like something I'd get malware while trying to install an alternative to realplayer
>>109106844It was perfectly fine for managing a music library and playing music and videos. But Winamp had a far better "small" mode that made it better for remaining visible while listening to music in the background while doing other things on the computer.It was also complete ass for ripping CDs. For one, if there was a scratch that made the CD sometimes skip, it would rip it with the skip in it, and report success so you'd only find out later when you listened to it. Better ripping programs like EAC detected that there was a skip and went back a few seconds and retried until it got it right, or gave up and reported timestamps in the track with potential errors. For another, it ripped to low bitrate WMA by default. This was both crappy quality and a format that way fewer players supported. Most people wanted MP3 for its better compatibility.
>>109106844windows media player included a handy feature that allowed a fake video to automatically open a webpage to download a "missing codec" or something.it was an excellent vector for malware.
>>109106944> enjoy your malware, anon. we just wanted to watch a movie.
>>109107037> correct. rare w on this board.
>>109109308>>109109349>you can't use any software that ever had a vulnerability you sound smart
>>109106844>touch mouse>full screen spazzes out to show controls>controls fade, full screen spazzes out againAnd then I just used MPC forever>>109109308This also
>>109109393>can't tell the difference between vulnerability and widely open mechanism for abuseyou sound dumb
>>109106844for all the codec fuckery
>>109106844have you used it?
>>109106844because of pic related>>109107037>>109106847>>109107549>>109108066lmao, what is this astroturfing campaign
>>109106847Pretty much this. It did lead to a lot of shitty encodes though, people didn't know shit about ripping CDs so entire collections would end up as 128kbps wma files.
>>109108537you are wrong
>>109106844>spacebar doesn't control the playback>can't rebind it
the UI was horribly slowShit would lag like crazy, for some eye candy ui you didn't need.
>>109106847>>109106851>>109107037>>109107549>>109108066>actually, Windows Vista was great!>do you remember Windows Media Player and how awesome it was?>Windows 8 was actually the fastest Windows to date!>actually, that objectively bad thing that everybody hated was good! It was only misunderstood!Why is this so common on 4chan nowadays?
>>109109458This, but it only really started to be an issue around Vista and beyond. I remember giving up on it but being used to the UI, so I got a Foobar theme that was WMP themed.
>>109109486>use Windows XP the first time>double click an .avi>expect to only watch a video>40s load time>then a giant window appears with playlist, cd burning, sync and library features>"WTF GET THIS SHIT OUT OF HERE"it was always bad
>>109109476forgive me. I didn't ask the neckbeards on the internet about what I should think.I just used wmp without knowing that it was bad.
>>109106844most 3rd party software just did it miles better
>>109111012>anon can't into hiding his newfaggotry
>>109106844DRM and didnt come with many codecs
>make shit up>get called out by several replies>mass-reply sperging outheh
