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Windows 11 is breaking Legacy Media Player features to push you to a modern app that uses 3x more RAM
(www.windowslatest.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2026
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It's unfathomable to me that anyone would use this instead of VLC.
For mp3s, I'm still kicking the llamas ass with my beloved winamp... VLC for everything else though.
I think winamp was my first experience with enshitification. I wonder if I'm overlooking other notable examples from that era.
Most people just use whatever their computer came with and don't think about it, and are not savvy enough to consider that there might be other options.
I tried using VLC but i couldn't get to work properly or better say i couldn't set it up to work like GOM player that i used for years before it became ad riddled garbage, but i did find MPC-HC and it was functionally the same just without the ads.
To expand what VLC was missing, it was the setting to play the whole folder and to remember where it stopped when i closed it, it might be me that was too stupid to find the setting but with MPC-HC i found the settings immediately and set it up to work as i wanted.