Aussiedroid

Besides being a redunant option for many as we have other quality players already installed, the primary concern I have with WMP is the logging/telemetry that it provides back to MS. It reports back what is being played and has done for a long time - this is a privacy/security concern. I can only imagine the W11 version is even worse these days! I appreciate this is not everyone's focus and they just want videos to play properly, but for me it is a high priority. Also, I have installed a 'hardened' version of Windows 11, which strips out and blocks installation / registry changes for most of the additional apps bundled with Windows. This means I cannot install WMP even if I wanted to without a full reinstall of the OS which is not a viable option. I mainly use Launchbox vs Bigbox, and have found some issues with VLC not displaying the video when choosing a system (although the sound is playing) so it is great to see this being addressed, but it is unfortunate that WMP was chosen. Given K-Lite is already in the mix with this release, it would be great to have another independant option for the player like Media Player Classic (mpc-hc) added to replace VLC. Could this be considered for future releases? Some additional feedback: It would be good to clarify with some detail in the media installation pop-up what specifically is being installed and what it will do if there is already an existing install of K-Lite or other components that it installs. I declined and skipped this step when upgrading to ensure it did not mess with my current install/settings of K-Lite. Does this override or does this identify existing install and no take any further actions? Likewise for any other components it is installing. After completing the install (with the skip), hit issues with the video playback as it defaults to WMP even though I declined the install. Took me some time to figure out why and revert back to VLC. Not ideal. Another upgrade issue I experienced coming from 13.18, after upgrading to 13.21, LB would not even load with a plugin error for 'ScummVMImport.dll'. This also took some time to figure out how to restore LB working. Deleting the dll and then repairing plugin after I could load LB again did the trick, and I assume this dll is no longer required in the current version but couldnt find much in the forums about it? Thanks for all the great updates and reading my feedback. I really, really hope that other players are considered for future versions.