Windows 11 New Media Player

Anonymous
2022-02-17T08:34:17+00:00

Hello!

I used Groove Music.

Today, I received the new Media Player which replaced Groove Music.

It correctly found my music and videos as I have included them in the Libraries.

Unfortunately, it is buggy.

For instance, when I click on Artists, it says that it could not find any content.

Also, it stucks when I click on an artist or album

Do you have similar issues?

Should I just wait a little bit, maybe they are going to provide updates and fixes?

I have tried resetting the app 2 times, but still the same problems.

EDIT [19.5.2022]: There was some improvements in my experience with Media Player.

Some day ago, the Media Player started anew. FIrst, it scanned again from scratch my Music library.

For 5-10 minutes, it used a lot of CPU and RAM. Then when it was done, I could see the Artists and it did not say that it couldnt find any music.

But still it is not completely stable. Very often, when I click on an Album or Artist, it freezes or crashes.

So, still I am anxiously waiting if it will get stable in the future.

But for now, I am happy that I can listen to music again.

DId this update also happen to you?

EDIT [11.9.2022]: Overall, my experience with Media Player has improved a lot.

Now, I can play all my music.

There are now 3 issues remaining as I can see them at least:

  1. Often, when I click to play an album, it freezes. I have to close and restart the app, and then I can play the same album. The same album appears when I click on the Home link.
  2. I also noticed this error: The run times of albums and others, are wrong! They do not show the actual value as I inspected them.
  3. Unfortunately, and this has not been addresses to me so far, I do not have Artists art. Wherever there is an artist, it just shows nothing. In Groove Music, I used to have those and they were beautiful.
Windows for home | Other | Music, photos, and video

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-07-24T19:23:17+00:00

    David, I accidentally installed the New Media Player over Groove yesterday. See every time I updated my apps, I had to cancel the media player update to keep the old Groove player but yesterday I missed it. New Media Player installed itself, the version number is 11.2206.30.0. Drumroll, IT WORKS. Not sure it is using the Groove library, but it displays all my media files from the OneDrive, even though the files are physically present. Give it a test. I am on the Insider Preview however.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-07-25T05:15:35+00:00

    It really has improved a lot. Recently they added Sort by Date Added, which was something I missed from Groove. I still have very occasional crashes, but it is far more stable than it was. My current list of things I'd like to see:

    • A "Sort name" like Groove had, which allows you to ignore The in album names, or put albums together that aren't alphabetical (Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, etc.)
    • A way to edit the Artist images, which Media Player, Groove, and lots of other players get wrong (displaying a picture of Al Green in a folder for All Ambient, for instance).
    • Any others?

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-08-12T02:55:21+00:00

    OK, looks like I was premature. Again. Media Player for Windows 11 has ceased to find music. It will look and look and then show one tile of Unknown Album. I’ve deleted and reinstalled several times to no avail. It is pointed to the correct location.

    The bizarre thing is that I had it open and updated an album in an MP3 data editor (MP3Tag). It immediately showed up in Media Player! So I tried updating everything in MP3Tag. A few more albums showed up, but can find neither rhyme nor reason as to why some show and most don't.

    Does Microsoft monitor these threads? I genuinely don't get this.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-08-12T19:09:13+00:00

    Does Microsoft monitor these threads? I genuinely don't get this.

     

    They probably don't, at least development wise. Your best bet is to report issues continually to the Feedback app. Recently Photos app was messed up and there was such a collective response on Feedback app, MS fixed the issue within two weeks.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-08-13T17:04:38+00:00

    I have a possible solution to this problem. I tried deleting the database and letting Media Player rebuild it,. Now it's fine. I have been using David Kang's Windows Thumbnail Generator 3.0.1, which brings back folder thumbnails for Windows 11. It works OK, but I'm wondering if it's doing something to the EXIF data in .mp3 files. Florian Heidenreich's MP3tab seems to fix whatever the issue is.

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