So I tried using MC instead of WMC this weekend and it didn't go well. And not just because my wife isn't a techie. Her beefs are legitimate.
- When viewing pictures (specifically, when viewing full screen/slideshow mode), she was able to advance to the next picture when she wanted by pressing the right arrow - until she wasn't. Periodically she just couldn't advance anymore and had to back out to the All Files view.
- Our main audio view (which is an Artist & Albums view based on file system) inexplicably started at L, omitting everything from A-K. Restarting MC (and Media Server) made some of the As reappear, but that's it. Eventually it recovered (after another restart), but I don't know why. Just flaky.
- We played "Highly Rated" music and it started looping after an hour. We have many, many times more four and five-star music than this. Songs with five stars simply weren't in the list. It's worth mentioning that several songs that played included artists A-K, so the library clearly knew the songs existed despite not showing them (see above).
I know there's another big thread with some people arguing that MC needs more eye candy, and others saying it's great just because of its functionality. Well, eye candy has never been my family's problem with MC. It's always been that it fails (either by design or by bug) to function like a normal person would expect it to function.