why i hate windows media player

[solarbird]

Why do I hate Windows Media Player? I think it's because if you set it up as an administrative user, that doesn't set it up for other users. No wait; it's that if you set it up as a non-administrative user (which you can do) that you can't change its setup settings and prevent it from taking over every filetype in the world - you have to log back in as administrator and change it there, then go back to the regular user and set it up. No wait; it's that this DOESN'T FUCKING WORK and setup defaults to taking over all filetypes anyway and doesn't let you override it. No wait; it's that if you turn off the visualiser, which you hate, in regular mode, it turns it back on when you try to make the stupid thing smaller. No wait; it's that you CAN'T turn off the visualiser when you make the stupid thing smaller, so the "small" mode is still large, and, incidentally, shaped kind of like a club you could potentially use to fiercely bludgeon whoever designed it. No wait; I think it's how to get to the window controls, you have to move the pointer off the visible player and over whatever's behind it that's in the range of the real but invisible rectangular window; you have to move away from the player, but not too far, to get to its window controls. That's "cool," for all values of "cool" meaning "unbelievably stupid." No wait; it's that adjusting one slider on the equaliser also adjusts every other slider on the equaliser because apparently some frakking genius thought it would be funny to make it into a fucking spline. It's like a game, a game called fuck you and your stupid fucking sound settings.

THAT'S it. That's why I hate it.

Comments

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Incompetent, yet criminally inclined. The latter made them successful. I'm hoping the former undoes them before they really get out of hand.

[solarbird]

That could apply to so many people that I honestly don't know which group you mean. You could post that in response to half my entries, and it'd be true every time!

[banner.livejournal.com]

Hey, at least you know who there to bitch too :-)

And this is also why I use WinAmp, after all, it kicks the Lama's ass....

[solarbird]

Oh, this isn't for my own music. It's for a radio station that only webcasts in WMP.

I mean, it could be worse. It could have been RealPlayer. In which case my listening to it would be zero.

[mysticalforest.livejournal.com]

Testify!

[solarbird]