And jeez what happened to it anyways? It actually used to be pretty decent back in the 98/XP/7 days :(

  • @Lasherz12
    42•5 days ago

    I still find it strange that windows media player classic consistently works better than every new media player they’ve introduced since. It seems like if you make OS’s you cannot simultaneously make a good media player, eg. Quicktime/itunes/wmp/groove

    • @[email protected]
      15•4 days ago

      TBF iTunes is a terrible player but made the shit loads of money so I guess they achieved what they set out to do.
      And I would argue iTunes is the reason for newer media player versions being shit since of course MS saw that there was money to be made and tried to do the same.

      • @Lasherz12
        3•4 days ago

        Very true, unfortunately if something makes money other companies will line up to copycat even if the real product is licensing they don’t have full access to.

    • @[email protected]
      8•4 days ago

      I had somehow forgotten all about the existence of QuickTime, and now I’m having flashbacks of the Wild West Web and Real Player…

        • @[email protected]English
          1•3 days ago

          Hold on, I need about 12 minutes to render your video and even then it’s going to be at postage stamp sized resolution and sound like someone stuck a brick in a blender.

      • @Lasherz12
        4•4 days ago

        Oh no, real player has plucked a chord in me I’ve long forgotten about too lol.

          • @Lasherz12
            2•3 days ago

            Not yet, I had to start over because I clicked a new spot in the video before it loaded, and that is a mortal sin.

    • @[email protected]
      3•4 days ago

      It works better because everything else is geared towards maximum monetization to the direct detriment of the user and the UX. Those alternatives suck simply because “working better” on its own is financially worthless to those selling this shit.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•4 days ago

      Everything that Microsoft has tried to improve has ultimately gotten worse. I recently installed Windows 2000 in a VM to install a similarly old game and it was kinda jarring how well it just worked and how much it didn’t suck compared to a fresh install of Windows 10 or Windows 11. Obviously there were some very dated concepts especially related to networking (it clearly was designed for a world where a lot of people only plug their computer into a phone line for dial-up, or just directly place their desktop on the internet with a public IP, and letting it listen to a DHCP server and connect to an existing network was weirdly obscured)