Re: Playing "All Music" or a particular Genre or Artist in WMP11 / 12

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On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 14:59:02 -0700, Richard Sims <Richard
Sims@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi there! I am still using WMP10 to play my music, because quite frankly WMP
11 has been a huge disappointment for me.

I have a music collection of about 15K songs, and I usually play everything
on shuffle, but sometimes I select a Genre, or an Artist, and I play them
that way.

In WMP 10, All I have to do to accomplish any of these tasks is to open the
Library tab, and either double click on "All Music", or I can drill down to
something more specific and double click on that. So if I want to listen to
Blues, I can drill down to Genre/Blues, double click on Blues and all my
Blues songs are automatically added to the Now Playing List. This is
extremely easy, and quite frankly, it's what I would expect from any mp3
player.


Type Genre:Blues in the Search box, and start playing ?


For some crazy reason, WMP 11 doesn't do this. Instead, it seems that you
are required to make a playlist for everything you want to do. This takes


To make a playlist with all your music, right-click Playlists and
choose Auto Playlist and just include everything (with no
discriminating filters).

You would only ever have to do that once, by definition since All
Music excludes nothing.

way more steps,
and when you have 15K songs, it's a real pain. I understand


It's one step.

Perhaps I havent understoood how this is causing an issue ?


that I could make an "all music" playlist, but what about when I want to
listen to "Pink Floyd", I don't want to make playlists for everything, what a
pain in the *** that would be.

Search (start to type the artist name) Pink F.... by the time you've
got as far as typing `Pink`, probably only 1-2 artists will show in
the list ? I cant imagine scrolling through a list of 15000 items
manually when the computer will search those for me.

I was saddened to learn today that WMP12 is pretty much the same thing. I
can't believe I'm the only person in this boat...


It's different again. I'm not sure it's an improvement.

It's a bit schizophrenic between Now Playing (separate window) and
Library (different window) and you can't see them both at the same
time in the version I tested.


Cheers - Neil
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