Why does Media Player got to hurt so bad?
 

Ever since I upgraded last weekend to 2008, the native media player -- which is actually not too bad on the controls front, as a car player -- seems to have truly execrable touch response.

I can hear the screen manager clicking when it feels my touching a button, but there can be up to several seconds delay either before the control is highlighted, or before anything actually happens.

I don't recall it being that pissy on 2007; has anyone else seen this problem? It makes adjusting the volume while driving a crashing bore...

Re: Why does Media Player got to hurt so bad?
 

never seen it here, iirc...

Re: Why does Media Player got to hurt so bad?
 

Further investigation -- we always do that *after we post*, right? :-) -- suggests it might have been a corrupted internal table. I flushed Now Playing, and then re-added my entire 900 track list, and now it's behaving better. Not as well as on 2007, but still better.

I couldn't play *anything* from the library directly, though.

Anyone got any better suggestions for a music player suitable for car-rack-mount use? I need play/pause, skip, and preferably track-repeat (I commit karaoke pretty regularly; that's how I learn songs) as Big Buttons, and really tight UI response.

Re: Why does Media Player got to hurt so bad?
 

i have never put 900 songs in there, so i caant tell if thats a potential reason (some kind of problem in the playlist or metadata management that makes it slow down with large number of files, maybe?)...

Re: Why does Media Player got to hurt so bad?
 

I've had close to that many before, any anything over 500 the player gets a bit flaky. You might want to consider Canola or another more robust media player if you have larger song lists.

Re: Why does Media Player got to hurt so bad?
 

Lots of programs have internal data structure design that becomes ... pathological when the lists get big.

Canola {is,was} way too slow and complicated for driving, for me.

Re: Why does Media Player got to hurt so bad?
 

You may want to take a look at MediaBox. I'm using it for driving and it doesn't choke when you have thousands of songs.