Wednesday, November 22, 2006

To Many Media Players

Windows Media Player, Real Media Player, Quick Time, Win Amp, and I Tunes are the top media players. There are formats that well only play on a specific player. My hard drive is taken up with media players with each fighting to take control of my music, and video files.

Last week, I wanted to watch a training video. I had to download another media player to watch the training session. Come on let us break down to one or two standards, but this is getting ridicules.

A search on Google comes up with over 12 different media players. Some media players are designed for a specific company to play their training videos. Others were created for file sharing of pirated music.

The bottom-line is my frustration is when I go to delete unused programs from my hard drive, I am stuck with a least three media players. Windows Media Player plays my Microsoft training. I-Tunes play and manage my weekly podcasts. Real Player watches network news online.

I have tried to work with only one or two media players. I got frustrated. I had to spend valuable time working around odd configuration. The odd media formats don’t like being played outside their home media player. It all comes down to limit my resources or put up with these entire media player.

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