I knew something like this would happen

[scarfman]

I've just installed the update to Windows Media Player 11. They keep taking away features I used all the time. Last time it was the ability to rearrange tracks on a CD so that a track could appear more'n once.

This time it's the menu when you right-lick on a CD track title: it used to be the menu had selections for "Enable selected tracks" or "Disable selected tracks", but they're gone. The kicker is that the tracks I had set disabled from before I installed the upgrade still don't play - but I can't find how to change the settings in 11. Searching the Help (online Help or offline Help) for "enable" yields nothing on the subject of disabled CD tracks. Going to the Online Help "newsgroup" is useless because the button to create a new message produces only a progress bar that doesn't progress.

Who here knows how you enable or disable CD tracks in WMP 11? Thanks.

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[whl.livejournal.com]

Now you know why I'm still on the Mac...

[scarfman]

They make Windows Media Player for the Mac too.

[whl.livejournal.com]

True, although they discontinued it earlier this year, instead letting a third party do a Quicktime plugin that can handle some formats, some of the time.

But they never did a complete set of Windows Media Player 9 formats for the mac, nor any Windows Media Player 10 ones.

But that having been said, it is thanks to that that I can watch NASA TV. (Thanks to that, but scowls at NASA for not using a true crossplatform streaming format.) It only messed up some of the time.