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[proton32060]

I upgraded from Media Center 18 to 21 recently ( today in fact) and am having an annoying problem.

I listen to music by clicking on music files and playing one, then closing Media center and clicking on another song or video a few seconds later and will then listen to that one. Sometimes the song has ended before I close the program and start a new song and sometimes not.

This was never an issue with 18.
I would close the program and click on another file a few seconds later and the player would instantly pop up again playing the new song.
The problem is 21 often won’t do that.

You close it and click another song and the hour glass pops up but many times Media Player will not launch. If you click the same file or another file a few times more the program will eventually start.
But being able to close and start the player quickly as I did in 18 doesn’t work very well in 21.

Is there some setting somewhere that is making 21 hesitate when 18 never had that problem?
Any help would be appreciated.

By the way, I shut down my Security Suite to see if that was the problem and it made no difference.
I am including my computer specs but since this is the same computer I was using for 18 I doubt if it is the computer itself.
Thanks for the help.


Operating System:
Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium


Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz- over clocked to 4.66 Ghz
ASRock Fatal1ty P67 PROFESSIONAL (B3) LGA 1155 Intel P67
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (4x4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM   DDR3  1866 (PC3 14900)
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus RR-B10-212P-G1
CORSAIR 750W Power Supply
MSI GeForce GTX 660 2GB
SanDisk Extreme PRO 240GB SSD
IO Crest 2 Port SATA III PCI-Express
WD- 2Tb Hard Drive Secondary
WD- 1Tb Hard Drive Secondary
SATA DVD Burner

[RoderickGI]

MC has changed a lot since version 18. When you close MC, it does a bunch of stuff before fully closing. There is probably more of that stuff in MC21 than there was in MC18. There have also been a lot of changes to the handling of transitions between audio files. It can take as long as 30 seconds to fully close MC21. I'm pretty sure you are trying to open a new music file while MC is still closing. When it has finished closing, the next click on the file re-opens it and starts playing your music.

But why do you close MC anyway? If you wish to use the same method you have previously, clicking on files in Windows Explorer I assume, then just minimise MC, click on the new file, and it will play immediately. Or just Alt-tab to Windows Explorer and click to play. Or set up Windows Explorer and MC side by side on your PC screen so you can select files to play while MC and Windows Explorer are visible.

But even better, why not learn about the MC interface, particularly the Standard View interface if you are using MC just for audio, and use MC to find, select, and play your music? In fact, learn about Playlists and start to use them. Or even just learn how playing now works, so that you can listen to music while deciding what to play next, and just add it to MC's Playing Now at the bottom, or add it to play next ahead of earlier selections, or have your new selection completely replace the list you had already created.

If that is too much, open in the left navigator of MC the "Audio>Files" item and drill down to your audio files just like in Windows Explorer. If your audio files aren't imported into MC, and that is why you use the method you currently do, then open the "Drives & Devices>Explorer" item and drill down to your files, exactly like using Windows Explorer.

No offence, but the way you are using MC is like buying a car, and then pushing it around instead of driving it. 

[blgentry]

I'm always kind of baffled by people that purchase MC, which has one of the best libraries in the business, and then refuse to use the library.

I don't mean this in an insulting way.  I just wonder why someone who likes file based navigation is attracted to MC at all.  Wouldn't something more like winamp or another file based player be better?

The real power of MC is in using it's library.  But I guess there might be places where MC shines, outside of it's library which make it a good choice for a "file navigator" person also.  I just can't imagine going back to a file based system after having used MC's library.

Brian.