Re: Now Playing no longer saves on close?

More personalization issues. Well, maybe we'll find the simple answer
buried deeply in the shadow of complexity like the last find.

Dale

"1966olds" <news.20.1988@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello Dale (and anyone else reading),

I restored WMP11 tonight to play around with it and found that yes... I
can get it to resume in the same place on the list for files present on
my computer. However....2 things still wrong with it:

1) Have to go through at least a couple of screens before hitting play
----more than once---to accomplish this.

and

2) Where I first noticed the problem (and this part still exists) was
when I was playing an internet radio station. I would sign off and
while I did NOT expect to be able to resume on the next song, I DID
expect the media player to remember what station it was tuned to the
last time. it didn't and still doesn't. And all efforts to create a
shortcut to click on ...failed.

So.... SP3 and Vista not withstanding, I'll stick with wmp 10 as long
as I can.

Larry


Dale wrote:
If that was the biggest issue for rolling back, you may as well go
forward
now. You're going to have to go to WMP 11 eventually, unless perhaps
11.5
or 12 is out before that eventuality, because there will most likely be a
forced upgrade as part of Windows XP SP3 which is due out, I think, in
2008,
just as Windows Server 2003 SP1 forced an upgrade from WMP 9 to WMP 10.

Dale

"1966olds" <news.20.1988@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dale,

Thanks for the correction. Although I already removed WMP11 (and now
appreciate wmp10 more) am pretty sure I did have the "save file and url
history in the player" checked. At least I know it was checked in WMP10
and thought I looked at that in WMP11, but maybe not and maybe the
installation removed the check mark for me.

Anyway, after I recover from the lack of sleep over the weekend and my
WMP11 hangover, I may go another round with it, but will rest for now.

Thanks,
Larry


Dale wrote:
Actually, I have to post a correction here. You can make WMP remember
the
last played song. Make sure that, in Tools-Options, the Privacy tab,
the
box for "Save file and URL history in the player" is checked. WMP 11
will
not automatically display that last played file, but it is available.
Just
open WMP 11 and click Play.

With the "Save file and URL history in the player" check box cleared,
then
WMP 11 will auto-generate a fixed length (8 hours) playlist when you
click
Play without having selected something else to play on startup.

Dale

"1966olds" <news.20.1988@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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---Silly me.... assuming that WMP11 would only add features instead
of
subtracting.

Dale, Thank you for your post!

Once again I have learned that I should have looked here in the NG
BEFORE I spent the whole day trying to get a Microsoft product to do
what it's previous version did despite no mention of teh feature
being
removed.

Back to WMP10 for me...after a whole wasted day of trying to get
WMP11
to remember the last song played thinking I just needed to find the
key.

Larry


Dale wrote:
It turns out that WMP really doesn't save the last played.
According
to
my
tests, it's a figment of the imagination. See my post at:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/newsgroups/WindowsMedia/default.mspx?&lang=en&cr=US&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player&p=1&tid=3bc0dba5-31da-414e-afe1-6ecad745da20&mid=3bc0dba5-31da-414e-afe1-6ecad745da20

Dale

"CommuNinja" <CommuNinja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
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That's umm... something.
Useful, i suppose, in accidently closing the playlist during a
song,
then
suddenly being unable to remember the name of it. But the old
style
of
actually saving the list under the temporary "Now Playing" did
the
same
thing
by starting the player with the last played track selected as the
starting
point.

"Dale" wrote:

Thanks for the tip. That must have been a closely held secret
by
just
the
developers who wrote WMP.

Dale

"Cantbebotheredwithaname"
<Cantbebotheredwithaname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
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I discovered a day or two ago that WMP 11 does actually
remember
the
last
thing you played, it just doesn't show it on start up.
Pressing
the
play
button should open a playlist called last played, although I
don't
know
if
it
remembers a list of songs of just the one.

"Dale" wrote:

The second option you listed is the only way to get your
media
player
to
remember your settings - which is very weird since Microsoft
went
to a
lot
of trouble to build personalization and settings, including
very
simple
ways
to save a user's setting, into the .Net framework. I guess
they
just
forgot
to tell the WMP 11 product team.

Dale

"CommuNinja" <CommuNinja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
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I really liked being able to close the player, and having
the
last
playlist
the next time i opened the player. Now i have to go ahead,
SAVE
my
list,
and
go through and open it the next time i open the player. I
can't
find
any
options to 'fix' this. any suggestions? or do i just get a
different
media
player?












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