In Reply to: Re: Which Version of Vista? posted by richs on February 12, 2007 at 17:57:12:
The reason I suggested you should try Media Center is that it's a nice interface. It works even on tiny screens - for example, I have run Media Center successfully over TV output to a tiny 7" LCD screen. And you can navigate across artists and albums (or use folder navigation through a third party interface).Because Media Center works through Windows Media Player, which in turn uses DirectShow, you can get all sorts of non standard formats like FLAC, APE, Ogg Vorbis, etc. supported by loading an appropriate DirectShow filter and a third party plugin called WMPTagSupportExtender.
In summary, Media Center is not just for watching TV. It works as a very nice audio player frontend.
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Follow Ups
- How do you plan to control selection of audio to listen to? - Christine Tham 18:54:27 02/12/07 (6)
- Re: How do you plan to control selection of audio to listen to? - richs 20:14:14 02/13/07 (1)
- Gee, thanks (blush), and Happy Valentine's Day! (nt) - Christine Tham 10:55:10 02/14/07 (0)
- Christine does going through WMP impose any audio penalty? - dave in gva 22:59:03 02/12/07 (3)
- Re: Christine does going through WMP impose any audio penalty? - Christine Tham 23:34:42 02/12/07 (2)
- Thanks Christine! - dave in gva 03:56:48 02/13/07 (1)
- Thanks for the compliment! Let us know how your system progresses (nt) - Christine Tham 13:29:43 02/13/07 (0)