hello, microsoft generally makes fine software. however one irritating issue
I have is that it is many times to smart for it’s own good. I am thinking
this is the case again with windows media player 10. when playing in shuffle
mode many albums are ignored while many others are repeatedly played. I am
assuming that it is trying to be smart and play what it thinks I like. I
would prefer to turn this “feature” off completely. I have changed the
ratings to one star on some of these albums with no effect they still play at
the same rate. so my question: is there a way to make the play truly a
shuffle? rather than a smart shuffle. and do the ratings have any effect at
all? or am I (quite possible) the one lacking the smarts to figure out how
it works? and one last request while I’m at it, is there a skin/setting that
mimics windows media center edition? in other words a skin/setting for audio
only that displays album art and information like WMCE2005?

thanks in advance for any help you may be able to lend,

tom

No, to my knowledge WMP10 does not do 'tilted'/'smart' shuffle - it should
purely shuffle whatever exact playlist / node is selected.

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"tom" <tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> hello, microsoft generally makes fine software. however one irritating
> issue
> I have is that it is many times to smart for it's own good. I am thinking
> this is the case again with windows media player 10. when playing in
> shuffle
> mode many albums are ignored while many others are repeatedly played. I am
> assuming that it is trying to be smart and play what it thinks I like. I
> would prefer to turn this "feature" off completely. I have changed the
> ratings to one star on some of these albums with no effect they still play
> at
> the same rate. so my question: is there a way to make the play truly a
> shuffle? rather than a smart shuffle. and do the ratings have any effect
> at
> all? or am I (quite possible) the one lacking the smarts to figure out
> how
> it works? and one last request while I'm at it, is there a skin/setting
> that
> mimics windows media center edition? in other words a skin/setting for
> audio
> only that displays album art and information like WMCE2005?
>
> thanks in advance for any help you may be able to lend,
>
> tom
>