Someone should put down some traffic cones to direct people to a decent media player.

That's the one thing windows is good at. Using system resources senselessly

We should hire some penguins to direct them to a decent OS.

mpc-hc-clsid2 is a wonderful option designed after the real legacy windows media player, not the bubbly piece of junk.

https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc

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Anyone stupid enough to still be using Windows (inb4 BUT MUH OFFICE REQUI- fuck your office.) deserves it.

this for video, and foobar2000 for music.

It's unfathomable to me that anyone would use this instead of VLC.

Most people just use whatever their computer came with and don't think about it, and are not savvy enough to consider that there might be other options.

I tried using VLC but i couldn't get to work properly or better say i couldn't set it up to work like GOM player that i used for years before it became ad riddled garbage, but i did find MPC-HC and it was functionally the same just without the ads.

To expand what VLC was missing, it was the setting to play the whole folder and to remember where it stopped when i closed it, it might be me that was too stupid to find the setting but with MPC-HC i found the settings immediately and set it up to work as i wanted.

I know my Llamas ass gets whipped still to this day, and I always have my traffic cones out. it even works with that failure of a google car whatever too which is . ok I guess

I'd still rather just use a cable and not have my phone force Bluetooth and whatnot

now I have Mario carts race start sounds in my head, thanks

Push you to a modern OS*

If the old one still works perfectly fine, why do we need a more "modern" one. Why are we not given the choice? Maybe I don't want the extra "features" (probably some ai crap)

For mp3s, I'm still kicking the llamas ass with my beloved winamp... VLC for everything else though.

Windows is borked though, for the most part, and they charge you for the convenience. Meanwhile many Linux distros have popped up in the past ten years that give the user exactly nothing they don't want. Life's easier shrug -- sorry if i implied that a newer version of Windows was the answer aha

mpv my beloved

Why would anyone be using windows media player?

Forgot it existed

Sometimes people just use what's pre-installed. The last time I used Windows Media Player was in Vista. It was fine though.

100mb vs 300mb.

I just use VLC and uninstall everything else when I have to use Windows.

[Tux Cart intensifies]

I sometimes used the old one to play music that I didn’t want going into ITunes as it had an easier to use playlist than VLC did (at the time at least)

I try to get media player classic after I install windows. At least the latest supported incarnation.

I love VLC as a concept but the interface never gelled with me.

Although these days I’m more into Linux. Fedora FTW

VLC runs even better on Linux haha, but there's a few good open source players at this point.

MPC-BE is for you my friend.

yeah, but who cares, ram is cheap.

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And with a name that just rolls off the tongue, too.

https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases/tag/2.8.0

I think winamp was my first experience with enshitification. I wonder if I'm overlooking other notable examples from that era.

I just think of it as Media Player Classic or MPC. It's a "3rd gen" open source project. I've been using it since it was just MPC. Then MPC Home Cinema added features and more support. And around 2020 Clsid2 took over development when the HC team called it quits.

Huh, didn't know mpc-hc called it quits. I should move to the new thing... Though TBF I got mine bundled with k-lite media codec pack.

I personally like MPV

I think I did associate mp3 files with media player for a bit. To prevent double clicking an mp3 from opening winamp and overwriting my playlist while I was maintaining it by hand. It would save on exit (maybe even on change as I don't recall losing changes to crashes, though they were rare), but if you loaded a different playlist (or a single mp3 "playlist"), then the previously loaded one was gone so hopefully you remembered to save.

Later on I just used the library and my star ratings for each song, plus some filters, to auto generate my playlist and no longer needed WMP.

Noooo I use Legacy Media Player to keep the screen from turning off on my work computer.

Is presentationsettings.exe or PowerPoint available to you?

It's not that bad, ram is abundant and plentiful right now so we should try and utilise even more of it on a media player.

Use Media Player Classic instead. It is still being maintained.

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema

Very Low Concern

Yeah, I think so, I just tried the Media Player approach first and it worked well and is super easy to do, so I stuck with it. I like that it simply opens up a small window of a random screenshot I took and I can overlay windows over it but it keeps the screen unlocked anyway. I'm not sure if the same can be done with the PowerPoint technique? The eternally looping Media Player screenshot is nice since I'll work in bursts; sometimes I'll fuck off to Lemmy for an hour, other times only 5 min, other times I'll actually work for several hours, all while the looping screenshot does its thing. (My work's policy has our screens turn off every five minutes or so of inactivity and it annoys the absolute shit out of me.)

Now I have a penguin with a cone on its head

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