What is it about Microsoft's Media Player?

Take the last version (or at least the last one I had installed, version 8 or 9 I think). You couldn't sort a playlist, which means if it's one you've had set up for ages, it's real easy to end up with 20 copies of "Ooops, I Did It Again" mixed in with everything else.

Well, you know what I mean.

But they've fixed that in the new one - you can sort by any column, so it's easy to sort by track title and delete all the excess Britneys.

So there, I was, brand spanking new de-duped playlists, and a stack of "unrated" songs, which means they're not in any of my playlists (I rate and assign to a play list at the same time).

So... the process used to be:

1. Listen to song
2. Click one of the stars
3. Drag the song to the playlist
3a. If the playslist was outside the visible list of playlists, you simply hold the mouse and the dragging-icon to the top or bottom of the left-hand pane, and it scrolls up or down accordingly to bring the other library items in-view.

Not any more.

Now you have to go the library pane, scroll up and down to find the playlist and then drag the song.

One step forward, one back, as usual Microsoft.

Labels: media player, mp3s, playlists

posted by Blakey UK @ 9:35 am