The mouse must be hovered over the progress bar above the playback controls to reveal the seek slider.

The seek slider cannot be always shown when playing media.Media can only be added from monitored folders. The ability to add media to the library for searching local or network files and selectively adding only new files or existing files has been removed.Library content is always grouped by the criteria by which it is sorted. Auto sorting in the media library (similar to auto sorting in Windows Explorer) cannot be turned off.Buttons to always show full-screen controls, show or hide the playlist while in full-screen mode and directly close Windows Media Player from full-screen have been removed.In previous versions, all possible metadata columns were shown for all category types. Categories in the player library such as Music, Pictures, Videos, Recorded TV show limited media information (metadata) columns, relevant only to their content type.The List Pane no longer allows deleting or editing items by right clicking items.Album art is restricted to a resolution of 200 x 200 in version 11 or to 240 x 240 in version 12.The benefit of sequencing WMP10 is that you get a decent player back on Windows 7 without touching WMP 12 or damaging OS components.Īnd here’s a list of features Microsoft shamelessly eliminated in Windows Media Player 11 and 12: You will have to sequence DirectShow filters like ffdshow too as part of the WMP10 package so all file formats will play. Windows Media Player 10 can be sequenced using App-V on Windows XP and made to run on Windows 7 using the App-V client if you are really determined. Version 12’s UI is such an incredibly bad and unproductive, unorganized mess that this alone is reason enough to stay with Windows XP if you are a devoted WMP fan. The worst “feature” of recent versions is the user interface and no addins or hacks can change that. Finally, in Windows 7, Microsoft made it completely unusable by re-designing the UI. Windows Media Player 10 was the best version of WMP Microsoft ever released and in Windows Vista, Microsoft completely demolished it.

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