Why didn't microsoft think this through?

[Christopher Lindsay]

At this point every Surface Book owner has seen that Windows Media Player does not scale to the deafult Resolution and DPI of the SB. Why in the world has microsoft not made WMP DPI aware to scale on the screen of it's own device? This has been annoying and imo just bad QA. This bugging anyone else?

 

[blackflaggnz]

It would bug me if I had the paper to get such a beautiful device in the first place. Poor mans life.

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[zerospace-net]

At this point every Surface Book owner has seen that Windows Media Player does not scale to the deafult Resolution and DPI of the SB. Why in the world has microsoft not made WMP DPI aware to scale on the screen of it's own device? This has been annoying and imo just bad QA. This bugging anyone else?

It probably would if I ever used WMP. Funny, but I hadn't noticed that... heh, heh. :winktongue:

I know that MS has kind of quietly killed a lot of old applications (Windows Live Mail is no longer getting updated), so it makes me wonder if they've gone and done that here, hence why it is not high-DPI aware. WLM wasn't really high-DPI aware, either. In fact, it was an ugly mess on the SB, so I stopped using it because the regular BSODs, shutdowns, forced shutdowns, etc. were corrupting my mail store like every other day.

I'm going to have to go look into whether or not WMP is in the same boat as Windows Live Mail ...

 

[xandros9]

Microsoft probably said something like "good enough, we'll spend resources on other stuff like Groove."

 

[zerospace-net]

Microsoft probably said something like "good enough, we'll spend resources on other stuff like Groove."

Probably! Why fix an old app when there are new, store apps that do the same jobs? Groove is actually a decent player for a local music collection (well, OK, it was a good player when it was just xbox music, admittedly, its been awhile since I used it). I don't watch much video on my computers, but if I do, I have other software to do it. I never liked WMP for video playback.

 

[rdubmu]

I am surprised people still use WMP

 

[worwig]

I know that MS has kind of quietly killed a lot of old applications (Windows Live Mail is no longer getting updated), so it makes me wonder if they've gone and done that here, hence why it is not high-DPI aware. .

I'm sure MS said that stopped supporting WMP when Win 10 came out.

 

[Lumious]

Windows Media What?

 

[Krystianpants]

Isn't Movies and TV/Grooce music a replacement?

Heck just get VLC new beta.

 

[orlbuckeye]

Well I've been using Gom player or VLC for years and never used the Media Player. I 've always felt that a company that specializes in media players would make a better media player than a company that main application is an OS and Office app.

 

[extrikate]

The current version of Windows Media Player was released in 2009 for Windows 7. It is not being actively developed so I wouldn't expect a fix. Time to move on.

 

[Chintan Gohel]

I am surprised people still use WMP

Windows Media What?

I use it all the time for music playing and playing 1080p videos for 2 reasons

For music - it has skins which I like to use (the revert skin) which stays translucent unless I hover the mouse over it. It's easy to change songs but kind of hide the program when playing. Groove can't do that, you can minimise groove but not set it as translucent

Second is the tv/films app cannot play multiple videos at a go unlike with windows media player which I can add several videos and it plays them as a playlist. Additionally, the tv app still has the issue where if you move it to a connected screen like and TV and then disconnect the TV, the app still thinks it's in the second screen. So you go to play a video and the sound comes out but not the video output since it is in an imaginary second screen. You have to connect the screen back and move over the app back to the main screen

 

[Christopher Lindsay]

Groove and the Movies and TV app is really bad so I still open files with WMP since it still comes with W10 and what not lol.

 

[Christopher Lindsay]

VLC doesn't scale either but it's a third party program. You would thing a first party program would though.

 

[zerospace-net]

The current version of Windows Media Player was released in 2009 for Windows 7. It is not being actively developed so I wouldn't expect a fix. Time to move on.

Wow... Windows Live Mail lasted longer than that (2012 was the last one there, I think).

Either way, there are more specialized, newer, better supported programs out there that aren't from the Win7 era. Personally, I have my entire music collection uploaded to Google (was a beta tester of Google Music) and I also synced it to my MS account under Win8 and Xbox Music, so I pretty much stream my whole collection from the web (not my favorite thing, but it's convenient). My long term storage of that same collection is on an old pentium 4 machine that was re-purposed into a NAS, so if I want to play those files directly, there are options. As for video playback, I'd have to go digging around on my hubby's PC, since he's the video geek around here. For DVDs or blu-rays, I have a copy of PowerDVD around here somewhere. I could care less about watching video on my PCs unless its some dumb video someone linked me to on YouTube =P.