First impressions of Media Player 10 aka the iTunes killer

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First impressions of Media Player 10 aka the iTunes killer

Well I downloaded WMP10 which has the new built in music store features. I'm not going to repeat the marketing info but in 1 sentence it supports multiple stores (Napster, MSN Music, WalMart, CinemaNow,MusicNow, MusicMatch) and you can bet we'll see more in the near future (ex: RealPlayer's music store... bleh!)

So far I love it, in my previous post I was expecting a sub par interface but basically it's an exact deplicate of iTunes. Sucks for Apple but it's a smart move (there are no laws against copying interfaces). Apple did create a great simply interface for music browsing and obviously the right people at MS knew this and decided instead of trying to invent the wheel, they copied it. I know the Apple zealots are gonna throw a fit but that's life.

I picked WalMart's music store at first as they don't require any type of registration, tunes are a very affordable $.88 each, and albums are really cheap too. Unfortunetly as expected, WalMart only sells "clean" music (politically correct censorship bastards) so if I ever need to buy a song that's "adult" I will simply buy it from a different store. Fortunetly your music library doesn't care where it bought the song from, they're all treated equal.

Anyways, go download WMP10 for yourself and experience the first new free feature to Windows since... well.... never.

posted on Wednesday, September 08, 2004 8:30 PM by travisowens

# @ Wednesday, September 08, 2004 10:35 PM

I have to say I like it too. I've been a disbelieved in online music stores and probably would not have tried this one if it wasn't from Microsoft. I downloaded it and tried it out and was really surprised at how easy it was to find a few songs I'd wanted to a while but didn't want to buy a whole album to get.

AlfredTwo

# @ Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:55 PM

bleh? Well, let me express another opinion. I'll take my music for 49 cents a song any day (at the bleh RealOne store). I tried WMP 10 and all it did was make me feel bad for paying too much.

Ogman

# @ Thursday, September 09, 2004 4:01 PM

Ogman.... You should be ashamed for supporting Real Inc. I consider them to be one of the most evil companies around. Why? 1. They invented crapware with the fact realpayler back in Win95 days would sit in your system tray using up valueable ram which was at a rarity at the time. In fact the average machine only had 16megs. 2. They have filed a lawsuit that is both unethical and immoral against Microsoft. They are claiming because Media Player is included with Windows that Real Player can't compete. Although Media Player has been around long before Real was ever a company, back in the Win 3.x days.

travisowens

# @ Friday, September 10, 2004 5:52 PM

So iTunes is still one up for having its own, good, music store. Songs are .99, true, but there's no subscription fee like there is at Real (I had no idea they were evil; I found Real to simply be really irritating).

epiNole

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