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Windows Media Player 11
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 6:52 am
by Jacques
Very nice of Micro$oft: "This version of the Player does not permit you to back up your media usage rights. " !annoyed!
That's pretty piss-poor even from their standards.
Re: Windows Media Player 11
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:55 am
by Sam Slater
I've heard it's a resource hog too!
Re: Windows Media Player 11
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:03 am
by Jacques
Not really noticed TBH
Re: Windows Media Player 11
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:22 am
by Jacques
Perfectly fine, no issues at all - just no back-up of media usage rights. So now Rolled Back to WMP10
Re: Windows Media Player 11
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:49 am
by Sam Slater
I guess there will be a fix in the future, then a fix of the fix, then a fix of that, then another fix, etc etc.......... lol!
Re: Windows Media Player 11
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:52 pm
by IdolDroog
Im gonna show a bit of ignorance here - but what are the media usage rights? I use WMP every day and ive never used that aspect...?
Re: Windows Media Player 11
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:17 pm
by Jacques
Digital Rights Management (DRM) Licence - basically with WMP10 you could back them up to a folder on say a pen-drive and then if everything went tits-up you could restore them. With WMP11 there is no option to back up, so if it goes tits-up all you can do is pay for the licence again or lose the ability to play the licenced files.
Of course Micro$oft have hidden away the option to uninstall WMP11 and also hidden how to do a rollback......which is nice.
So if you have Licenced video/audio, don't upgrade to WMP11.