Is windows media player supposed to be this slow?

[akollgaard]

The title is basically self explanatory... windows media player is realllllly slow. It's usually the only task running. I have the 6.1 rom. I try to play music off the home screen and it just takes forever to load! And bogs down the whole phone. Anyone else having this problem? I'd just use the media manager but I like having the music on the home screen...

[l0lcats]

well, you have to take into account the hardware you're using...these phones, yeah...not so beasty

[stylez]

well, you have to take into account the hardware you're using...these phones, yeah...not so beasty

Also take into account that it's "Windows" Media Player empathis on the Windows, lack of codec & streaming support old unrefined and just plain right lazy, i know what you mean about having the panel for quick eaze of access, but there are far better Media Players, Pocket Player choice for audio & CorePlayer "TCPMP is the free version" (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?3tnnnjm4dvh) for Video, you can set up SmartToolKit (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nnqql2mjwyd) with gadgets to allow quick access to your most wanted programs, some screen shots (http://www.s620.blogspot.com/) sorry they are old on stock WM6.
Hope this helps.

[Bupahs]

The title is basically self explanatory... windows media player is realllllly slow. It's usually the only task running. I have the 6.1 rom. I try to play music off the home screen and it just takes forever to load! And bogs down the whole phone. Anyone else having this problem? I'd just use the media manager but I like having the music on the home screen...

I use Pocket Player myself and of course TCPMP. But if your "slowing down" try cleaning out your Notification Que (use SKTools) I found over 1000 duplicate itmes in there and after I deleted them.. my Dash was speedy again :)

I also clean out the reg (bad values, old values etc) with SKTools fairly regulary now... it makes a huge difference.

[Ryanmo5]

Also open media player and go into options, network and change internet connection speed to wifi. Also uncheck detect connection speed, that will help speed it up if you do plan to use it instead of another media player.

[stylez]

stats555 please forgive me if i'm wrong but i'm pretty sure he's commenting about playing .mp3 as WMP is pretty useless to stream anything, so to change network settings isn't going to help regarding performance as i don't think WMP checks network unless streaming. Think his best bet is to get TCPMP for now and give it a try then get his hands on Pocket Player like the rest of us :)
I think Bupahs got it spot on cleaning up the notification que.