WMP 11 no longer automatically displays the length, size and duration of the current playlist in the

a.. WMP 11 no longer automatically displays the length, size and duration of
the current playlist in the lower status bar.
Anything I can do to "fix" this. I need it in order to plan my burnning.

 

You cannot fix it.

You can, however, click a track in the playlist - to be sure the focus is in
the playlist - and then press CTRL-A on the keyboard. Then, and do this
quickly, look down at the right of the media controls near the bottom, and
you'll see how many items you have selected and the total time of those
items. You have to look quickly because it will, moronically, go away in a
few seconds.

In order to get the total file size, you'll have to go to Windows Explorer
and, unless the tracks are listed sequentially within one folder, add the
file sizes with a calculator.

This is all an example of what the Windows Media Player product team calls
"simplification of the user interface".

Dale

 

Thanks

 

Now that made me laugh out loud for real! You're right - that works. If I
follow those ridiculously lengthy steps and then stop my playlist I can get
the number of items and the length. How stupid is that?

And, along with that, why show just minutes and not minutes:seconds?

That was a good find, Chief. It's just too bad Microsoft has made it so
ridiculously non-intuitive. So much for the Windows Media Player team's
goal of simplifying the user interface in WMP 11.

Dale

 

Yeah I hope that too. In many ways, it wasn't rushed out to coincide
with Vista - rather it was applied a little too enthusiastically to XP

You can imagine the cries of annoyance if it was a Vista only program
- everybody would be going "I can't believe M$ want me to pay to
update to Vista to get WMP11" so it's probably the better side of a
bad deal.

I can guarantee there would be 10x the number of posts of people
thinking they were missing something if it was Vista only...

Cheers - Neil

 

Agreed.

And it seems to me, that there would plenty of room to display no. of items
and total duration of playlist next to that button.

I really miss that feature too.

 

You're right, Chief, about that Edit button. Those buttons down there make
no sense at all! They're often times not even all the way to the right,
they're sort of off center to the right and totally unassociated visually
with their intended purpose. Another bad UI problem from the Windows Media
Product team. The sad thing is that the part they seem to have put their
development emphasis on, DRM and online stores, don't work much better than
the eye candy they added to suck us into the DRM and online stores. This is
very typical of spyware and adware. They often end up doing nothing well,
even their spyware and adware functions.

Dale

 

Now I see I can "count" the items and know it's playing time. But what about
the size im MB. For example, if I wanto to know what's the size of my
Library? This is because my music files are spread around some folders, so is
isn't easy to count the by hand...

However, I find WMP11 more user-friendly and overall better than the
previous version.

 

You think its more user friendly? Well, wait until you get your adding
machine out because that's the only way you're going to get a total size in
MB of a play list. Windows Explorer and an adding machine. Bring extra
rolls of paper.

Dale

 

LOL
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