by khismet » Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:52 am
After a couple of hours of playing with MM3 on a spare machine, I think I'm going to uninstall.
I have had a number of issues, some major some minor:
1) I really dislike the wide screen-filling player bar, and annoyed that there's not an alternative out of the box. Having now scanned about a dozen other skins and not found one that I like, I'm ready to go back to MM2 - the skin wasn't perfect, but at least it did what I liked
2) Had persistent problems where player showed a track paused, and it would refuse to go into play. I think this is triggered if you click on the monkey icon in the taskbar to stop a track while it's playing - but the only way out of this seems to be to stop/re-start MM
3) On some occasions, unable to shut MM down - neither File/Exit, [x] button, nor option from the systray icon would close it.
4) Having laboriously got the screen to the best configuration I could, I exited MM, and re-started it ... and the screen was back to a slightly-changed version of the default - it had kept the title bars switched off, but lost all my other changes. Next time I did this, it saved the changes correctly
5) MM£ is really pernickity about where the cursor is, when you want to switch title bars on, once you've switched them off.
OTOH, I liked the integrated podcast downloader.
For me, the negatives outweigh the positives by a large amount - I'll have another look after it's been upgraded a couple more times, but I'm not going to upgrade my main machine, and I'm going to take this one back to 2.5 ASAP.
After a couple of hours of playing with MM3 on a spare machine, I think I'm going to uninstall.
I have had a number of issues, some major some minor:
1) I really dislike the wide screen-filling player bar, and annoyed that there's not an alternative out of the box. Having now scanned about a dozen other skins and not found one that I like, I'm ready to go back to MM2 - the skin wasn't perfect, but at least it did what I liked
2) Had persistent problems where player showed a track paused, and it would refuse to go into play. I [i]think[/i] this is triggered if you click on the monkey icon in the taskbar to stop a track while it's playing - but the only way out of this seems to be to stop/re-start MM
3) On some occasions, unable to shut MM down - neither File/Exit, [x] button, nor option from the systray icon would close it.
4) Having laboriously got the screen to the best configuration I could, I exited MM, and re-started it ... and the screen was back to a slightly-changed version of the default - it had kept the title bars switched off, but lost all my other changes. Next time I did this, it saved the changes correctly
5) MM£ is really pernickity about where the cursor is, when you want to switch title bars on, once you've switched them off.
OTOH, I liked the integrated podcast downloader.
For me, the negatives outweigh the positives by a large amount - I'll have another look after it's been upgraded a couple more times, but I'm not going to upgrade my main machine, and I'm going to take this one back to 2.5 ASAP.