Shitting on Windows built-in media player if you didn't know

[serinus@lemmy.world]

I think this part actually isn't enshittification. I think this is being legally cautious, as you probably should be when you're Microsoft.

[tin@lemmy.world]

Windows Sound Recorder used to open literally anything - text documents, pdfs, Photoshop files, and attempt to play them as audio. Photoshop files make especially interesting noises through it. I used to use it for samples. Got some great noisy stuff that way.

[the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world]

I think WinXP was the last time i used the Win Media Player

[thunderclapsasquatch@startrek.website]

Why does it need value? Living to extract value and nothing else is toxic to your body mind and soul.

[lasherz12@lemmy.world]

I still find it strange that windows media player classic consistently works better than every new media player they've introduced since. It seems like if you make OS's you cannot simultaneously make a good media player, eg. Quicktime/itunes/wmp/groove

[potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish]

IIRC you have to pay for a certain media format. 1984

[lordwiggle@lemmy.world]

Since the time of internet I've used Winamp for music, MPC and VLC for videos, Irfanview for images. Now I use Kodi for movies and series, Foobar2000 for music, Irfanview for images and MPC for other videos. Fuck streaming services.

[daggermoon@lemmy.world]

For real though. I have yet to find a file VLC can't play. I have some old 8-bit .au files that play perfect. It even supports really obscure proprietary codecs from 20 years ago.

[danc4498@lemmy.world]

You now they’re just being silly, right?

[xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Just because VLC plays a file doesn't mean that the file isn't corrupted.

[wanderer@lemm.ee]

VLC represents what the internet could have been and what it should have been.

Wish we could start again with a new internet.

[thatguynamedzeus@feddit.org]

who the hell still uses windows media player? I use windows and everyone else I know who uses windows never opens WMP. We all have VLC for videos, but for the movies that we all totally pay for we use Kodi/XBMC or jellyfin

[mellowsnow@lemmy.world]

Got any fun clips to share?

[birch@sh.itjust.works]

Playing a video in the background on loop with wmp prevents your desktop from locking or showing you as away

[monkemischief@lemmy.today]

If it's not skinnable what's even the point, right? I miss those neat visualizations.

[mongostein@lemmy.ca]

XBMC is still a thing?

[thatguynamedzeus@feddit.org]

They re-named it "Kodi" but a lot of the stuff in it doesn't work very well anymore

[the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world]

Never knew that one.

[slampisko@lemmy.world]

Media Player Classic enjoyer here

[swab148@lemm.ee]

For some reason it always puts ampersands in the text on the left side, for me anyways. Like, it'll say "Alb&ums" and stuff like that.