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
    2022-03-26T00:54:16+00:00

    **** I N G garbage app and MS wont even let us know when they plan to fix it. my whole library wont show up so I just use amazon to listen to music now since this app is useless.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-03-22T05:43:21+00:00

    Same with me as everybody else. I guess at least I'm not the only one. Say what you like but I actually liked Groove once they got it working ok. But this has been a huge step backwards. I can't find any notes at all about when or if they are fixing this.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-03-18T09:31:48+00:00

    That’s great it started working for you. Not for me, I’m afraid. I’m all up to date with updates. What build number are you on? I am on 556 (supposedly the most recent)

    I tried using the Dev preview ring a while ago, not realising that you can’t just switch back to the public builds without a reinstall😳.

    So I did a reinstall, but my account still seems to be set to an Insider account.

    I’ve set preferences to not take any dev, beta or preview builds.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-26T23:53:03+00:00

    Thanks for the info. I wonder if it is when it forcefully adds onedrive/music. I might stic a music item in there and see if it stops the failure. So sad. Makes you wonder what kind of testing goes on? Or do they just use customers to test. And to call it Media Player again, do they even think?

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-02-26T23:49:12+00:00

    Same problem for me. : "We couldn't find any music." I used to use Groove without any problems. Get this update from the "Masters" at Microsoft India and it can't even list my music.

    If I go into "settings" and remove my music folder and re-add it it will start to compile my music again. Some time later and everything is gone again and : "We couldn't find any music." This is the basics of application functionality and testing MS are getting wrong here.

    Also it keeps adding back onedrive/music. If I remove it, it adds it back. I this Microsoft or Apple now?

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