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#1 Re: Why do media players have such complex interfaces? Posted by Anonymous (193.237.xx.xx) on Wed 13 Jul 2005 at 06:13 I'm not sure they all do but..... I believe for Windows Media Player version mumble, Microsoft hired a "usability consultant", whose idea of usability was to make the interface totally unlike any other Windows application. There is an artical on the chap and what he was trying to achieve, try Google. Fortunately they made it skin-able, and included a classic skin, so those of us who can use computers, but dislike learning a new layout for every application we use can make it work more or less like every other Microsoft Windows application. Other than that, the need for a fullscreen mode, and a desire this actually give you all of the screen in that mode, demands a few extras. And video and audio are quite complex beasties if you want to get the absolutely best quality, and people who work on these things see that as a point of competition.

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