Allchin says no WMP fixes until Longhorn

Thomas Hawk dined with Jim Allchin, and extracted the following titbits:

Microsoft is building the next version of Longhorn Media Center to accommodate much larger digital libraries. As some of you may have read in the past I have had some performance issues with my large .mp3 library. Longhorn will be better able to handle very large digital libraries. Having 500 photos or so in a folder will render quickly and the media player should be able to easily accommodate 100,000 + item media libraries.

Jim did acknowledge that there still were some issues today with Windows Media Player and I shared with him the fact that earlier that day Chris Lanier had blogged that his collection of WMP web help articles now had seen over 1 million views. Jim said that they are working on many of these issues but that a new version of WMP and fixes would not be out until Longhorn. [My emphasis].

I wonder how much user data - files and metadata - will be destroyed by WMP by then? Will the Windowsmedia team actually act constructively regarding user feedback on bugs that they have ignored through two previous betas? Does this translate to fixes for Windows XP and long overdue fixes for Windows 2000 versions of Media Player?

Published Sat, Apr 16 2005 11:42 by Mike
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# re: Allchin says no WMP fixes until Longhorn

Tears of pain and frustration poured down my face as I read that there will be no updates to WMP until Longhorn. This is insane. As and avid supporter of WMP and MCE, it is hard to believe that the issues with large databases will go unaddressed until the end of 2006. It sounds like there are some technical limitations that Longhorn will supposedly address and resolve but there must be a short term fix. I am embarrassed to show people the MY MUSIC section in MCE. It can take anywhere from 2 to 10 minutes to pull up a simple song. (Sound Familiar?) More and more this is pushing me to ditch the MCE and look for another platform that will support its user base. While I applaud the MCE group for wanting to build a community around its platform, the lack of support and frankly the usability issues must be addressed. The whole purpose of a community is to listen to their comments and feedback and not give them the cookie cutter response of “We will address those issues in the next release of our software” This is bad news for M$ and the MCE community.

Monday, April 18, 2005 7:26 AM by Mike

# re:Allchin says no WMP fixes until Longhorn

^_~,pretty good!csharpsseeoo

Monday, May 02, 2005 10:38 PM by TrackBack

# re:Allchin says no WMP fixes until Longhorn

Allchin says no WMP fixes until Longhornooeess

Monday, May 23, 2005 11:40 PM by TrackBack

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