{"id":339,"date":"2007-07-27T21:05:23","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T02:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/07\/27\/efficiency-tip-94-classic-media-player\/"},"modified":"2015-05-14T09:12:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:12:27","slug":"efficiency-tip-94-classic-media-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/07\/27\/efficiency-tip-94-classic-media-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficiency Tip #94 &#8211; Classic Media Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The media player that comes with Windows is big, slow and difficult to manipulate.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t use it.\u00a0 There is a much better player that looks a lot like the old media player built into Windows.\u00a0 It&#8217;s called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/project\/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&amp;package_id=84358\">Media Player Classic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/windowsmediaplayerclassic.png\" alt=\"windowsmediaplayerclassic.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are two shortcuts (and there are many others) built into MPC that make it worth the switch.<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; To pause press the space bar.\u00a0 Press the space bar again to start the media.<br \/>\n2 &#8211; To adjust the volume up, press the up arrow.\u00a0 To adjust it down, press the down arrow.<\/p>\n<p>If you want different shortcuts, all are configurable in MPC.\u00a0 In XP\/Vista&#8217;s Media Player, nothing is configurable.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t like pressing Ctrl-P to pause, you are out of luck.<\/p>\n<p>MPC&#8217;s interface is simple, leaving all the valuable screen space for your media.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll enjoy it much more.<\/p>\n<p>TSPY=0.23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media player that comes with Windows is big, slow and difficult to manipulate.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t use it.\u00a0 There is a much better player that looks a lot like the old media player built into Windows.\u00a0 It&#8217;s called Media Player Classic. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/07\/27\/efficiency-tip-94-classic-media-player\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[336,338],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","category-efficiency","tag-edtech","tag-efficiency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}