MS Media Player 9 or 10?

[bhurtel]

i will always prefer newer version

because newer means more facilities, more reliablity, more stable

[suryad]

Not necessarily bhurtel...but in this case you happen to be right. 10 is better than 9. I hear 11 is coming out end of this year...or soemthing.

[kurt476]

i love windows media player 10

[MHz]

Windows Media Player 8. The others win the ugly looks trophy.

[Aaron_]

I just love the GUI of the media player 10

[KamiQuazi]

I voted 10 because I liked the 3-paned design, It makes it easier to burn and transfer music to all of my mp3 players! I like the GUI better than 9, but where is the skin option?

[iCEhOT]

Hrm cant really see much of a difference but i use 10 cos it's the latest.

Erm, in response to the DRM post, try ripping with other ripping software, and encoding using LAME. Microsoft are trying to stop pirating etc using trusted computing and DRM, but if u use slightly older and free tools you wont have a problem with ur ripping.

I use Audiograbber which is free, and LAME MP3 codec which is free, combined they produce very nice mp3s from the source, with no copyright problems what-so-ever - never ever use a microsoft tool for things like that!

[xian7479]

I think that WMP10 has more codecs than WMP9 thus surpport more media formats.

[MCSE]

hm, WMP9 is ok and you can to download patch for mp3 in WMP9,

WMP10 have a pretty interface but is a slow...I don't know I using Winamp...

[magicfly]

Definitely WMP10.

Its user interface is better and for my needs i feel better with WMP10, and i like upgrade my performance

[snekul]

10, because newer is always better. Actually, I find the mild feature set improvement a plus, but I wouldn't be that upset if I had to use 9. I only use media player at work, don't want to put software on my computer that we don't let other users have. At home, its a combo of Winamp, iTunes, and a little bit of media player. I would never use Winamp, iTunes, or WMP to rip cds. I use Cdex and the latest copy of Lame for ripping and MP3 encoding.

[Aegis]

Why raise a dead topic ?

[EchoNoise]

[jim-p]

If mp3 ripping is the question,I use WMP 9 plus a little registry "hack" from www.winguides.com/registry to achieve high bitrate mp3 encoding.Along with that I use the Fraunhofer Pro mp3 encoder so it encodes as high as 320kbps Stereo (not Joint Stereo as in WMP10).It does the job for me

[Viper187]

I prefer WMP8, but 9 is ok. The only major problem I think I had with WMP10 was that left/right arrows didn't work to seek while watching videos.