![]() 11/07/2017 at 20:37 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
Windows Media Center seemed to be working OK, but ran out of space. I redirected it to save to another drive, one that won’t frequently be filling up to capacity, and as a result it didn’t move my existing recorded programs but appears to have deleted them. WTF?
![]() 11/07/2017 at 20:40 |
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God damn that’s stupid.
![]() 11/07/2017 at 20:44 |
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Just when I thought MS might have gotten their collective act together on something I find remnants of the old “eh, good enough” mentality that kept me away from their products for years.
Oh, and of course the missing files aren’t in the trash...
![]() 11/07/2017 at 21:38 |
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I mean. With all the great media programs why would you use media center?
![]() 11/08/2017 at 03:49 |
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Any recommendations? WMC was there and worked with the tuner with a minimum of configuration, so I ran it even though I know it’s crap. I had Kodi but didn’t have the patience to figure out which modules I needed to do the various tasks. It felt a lot like Linux - lots of potential, but not a lot of good documentation on how to get it running and a user community that looks askance at you if you’re such a n00b that you can’t figure it out on your own. Although it may not seem like it at times, I do have a life outside of these boxes.
![]() 11/08/2017 at 07:45 |
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Yeah I was gonna say Kodi. Plex isn’t bad either.
![]() 11/08/2017 at 08:13 |
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VLC is my preferred media player. You should be able to see all your media files already saved through the library so you don’t have to add them twice.
![]() 11/08/2017 at 11:00 |
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I do use VLC for playback despite the lousy audio codecs but I need something to schedule and record OTA TV content. I prefer not to use MS software whenever possible but WMC was there and worked. I didn’t realize until after the fact that it has some seriously stupid design choices like I just encountered.