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Annoying Media Player 10 Flaw

I really like WMP 10. It's lean, slick, functional, and makes buying music a sinch. The lists could be a bit more intuiative, but overral it rocks.

It should, however, be forced to go around and introduce itself at parties thusly though:
"Hi, My name is WMP. I've got it together, only I'm too dumb to be able to tell when a user is playing music or video."

Seriously, anyone else hate how it interacts with the screensaver?

Here's an idea: let me specify screensaver 'allowability' for musical playback, and visual playback. THAT would be spiffy. Because here's what invariably happens: I watch a movie, or an episode of TV, etc. And 3 minutes into it, the screensaver pops on. So I toggle the screensaver option.. and all is well -- until a day or two later when I leave my laptop and expect the screensaver to turn on and it can't, because I told it not to. (I know, I know, life is hard.)

EDITOR'S NOTE: Mike LIKES to complain, but you don't see him using any other media players out there - he HATES all of them. WMP is his favorite (he just wants it to be PERFECT).

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