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Re: [disklavier] "Windows Media Center" is Dead

2015-05-05 by Spencer Chase

i forget what media center does. i know they dropped it from win 8 but you could add it. i was interested only because it was one option of many to make my own DVR. instead i bought a Tivo so never had to explore it further.

the best Media Player of all is Media Monkey. it does not do TV stuff. it has many addons and plugins and can even play MIDI files and display metadata if you add the plugin for MIDI and for reading metadata from a txt file. it can be simple plug and play or can get as complicated as you want.

basically, it is what Itunes would be if it were not a bloated pile of garbage. Mac users have been crying for a Mac version of Media Monkey for years and now it is sort of officially supported via plugins and something called wineskin. no reason to suffer with Itunes for PC (even worse than the Mac version) of Mac.

http://www.mediamonkey.com/addons/browse/item/mac-osx-mediamonkey/


On 5/4/2015 9:22 AM, dashby dashby@... [disklavier] wrote:



Hello Members of Disklavier,


By now most people using Windows for Disklavier

applications either use Windows XP "off-line" or have moved

on to Windows 7 or 8.1 or to an Apple iOS or Linux or Android.


For those in the Windows Camp, waiting in the wings is Windows 10.

(For owners of Windows 7 and 8.1, the Windows 10 upgrade will be free.)


But alas, in that migration, those who use "Windows

Media Center" will lose this program in Windows 10.


Therefore, heads up to "Windows Media Center" users.


Please see the following ZDNet article:


http://www.zdnet.com/article/rip-windows-media-center/?tag=nl.e539&s_cid=e539&ttag=e539&ftag=TRE17cfd61


Sincerely,

Dale Ashby
Portland, ME



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