eranros used our news submit to tell us Media Player 10 is up on the Microsoft servers, ready for your inspection. Actually, I have been playing with the beta version for a while. The file management feature is nice, sporting three panes which makes it easy to create playlists. Unfortunately, my MP3 player will only accept Winamp playlists. I hope iRiver is going to do something about this with a firmware update. Another handy advancement that may be supported by most manufacturers through firmware upgrades, is Media Transfer Protocol. With this, you can transfer files from your PC to Media Player 10 or vice versa easily and even synch your player. Neat.
| Windows Media Player 10 gives you more music and more choices, and for the first time makes it possible to sync high-quality music, video, and photos to the latest portable devices. |
Couple this with Windows Media DRM 10 for Portable Devices, as a nice convenient way to push products over the Internet and you have a real powerhouse. Everyone is there - Walmart, Napster, CinemaNow and even Musicmatch. Well almost everyone, I didn't see RealNetworks or iTunes. That's odd... Oh, did I mention MSN Music? It has 3 exclamation marks after it's name on the browse page.
But, that isn't too exciting these days. So, what if you can download high definition clips in 1080i with 5.1 surround sound from IMAX? It takes about 5 minutes on a good broadband connection in order to view a 2 minute clip. Using WMV9 of course. Then, if you like it, they will sell you the DVD. Nice and convenient. Microsoft, love them or hate them. They are all business. Why not check out Media Player 10? But, don't forget to set a restore point!
Source: Microsoft
WTF, it looks exactly like iTunes!
Hmmm... I wonder why they didn't put it in SP2.
hmmm... stop bitching about drm. we only ahve to get drm if you download a drm protected file. it wont play if you dont have drm 10 installed so what is the problem? i just got WM10 and i have to say well done Microsoft 
, the mp3 ripper is the best and now WM is my primery music player, yeh sure there are better playback programs out there, but WM is compatible, stable, gets the job dont simply and well. it also starts up fast. ben.
It's not hard to beat that size. Just press F3 while in Total Commander :P
Or even better, I can compile a Visual C routine that uses multimedia commands ('play', 'stop' and so on). It shouldn't be more than 50 Kb 
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