Give ObjectMedia Some Love

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I know this doesn't exaclt fit on WinCustomize... but I couldn't think of anywhere else that would be more appropriate.

I for one would like to see StarDock give ObjectMedia some love. I'm not talking about anything complicated or extreme, it's nice having a media player that isn't bloated. What I'd like to see...

- Option to have it show in task bar.
- Smaller tool bar
- Some sorting options, IE sort by title, file name etc.
- When several MP3s are ed and opened it adds them in order they were ed, I feel they should be added by file name as most media players.

I think that's it really... I had a few more, but I forgot em :/

Also it's odd StarDock doesn't push ObjectMedia a bit more, odds are if you don't have ObjectDeskto you've never even heard of it. I know WinAmp pretty much dominates the media player scene, but for those of us who are on laptops or just don't like over-done media players ObjectMedia is great.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I second the motion. I use objectmedia in conjunction with desktopX. It is by far the easiest way to make a dx media controller. In fact the dxmedia plugin could do with some love too!
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I absolutely love ObjectMedia. It is great. It would be my default media player if it wasn't for one little thing.

It freaks out on my all the time.

Seriously. I load a folder or a playlist and it plays a song or two then gives me some wired error and shuts down. Sure I can restart it, but it is really getting annoying.

And 14 days since my email to Stardock about it still no reply.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ObjectMedia certainly seems like the bastard child of the object dock family.
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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Seriously. I load a folder or a playlist and it plays a song or two then gives me some wired error and shuts down. Sure I can restart it, but it is really getting annoying.


Yeah there seems to be a problem with it playing some kind of MP3s, I guess because of the way they are encoded or something. But it hasn't happened enough for me to make any real correlation.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I can make you guys a new build next week. Currently I have a new job which keeps me very busy. Stardock is still a hobby project for me, and due to the new job there weren't many updates. At one point both WB and DX broke OM/DXPlayer, so I virtually gave up.

Great to hear you guys like the player. I don't get many reactions like that.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top


Also, forgot to mention that the HotKey assignment to open the viewer doesn't seem to stick.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
MadIce-Wow, that is very good of you. Above and beyond the call of duty. Just in case it might help some I am pasting the error I get when Object Media tanks on me.

DMO failure: Unhandled exception during DoAddFilters()