Favorites of WMP

what decision does what is a favorite?

I have a bunch of mp3s. Random seems to play the same over and over again.

Hello

First - Sorry to answer your question with a question (I seem to do a little of that right now!)

but which platform do you use for random playback - WMP itself or the Windows Media Center?

I used to run "random" on WMC and found that it would tend to play things several times and then (probably) decide repeatedly repeated songs were "Favorites" and play them more often!  There is probably a technical solution for this, but personally, I gave up using wmc and tried a different approach.

I would like to know what your favorite player, and I'll give you some suggestions on this basis.

Greetings - R

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