zeroc00l

I happened upon a new feature in version 9.0. You can rate your music, default is 4 stars. Play your mp3s for a while and then look at the file modified date/time. I was shocked to see that my mp3s were being modified without my knowledge. Since when the hell does microsoft have a right to be changing any file I play using their player? Are they trying to keep track of my mp3 collection for me? What else are they conveniently putting in there besides a rating? To me, this represents the death of the windows media player product line. It was bad before and now its worse, but this was the last straw. I wouldnt have been using it if it werent for winamp being so buggy. I'm looking for alternatives. In the mean time I uninstalled the hell out of it under add/remove windows components and while I was at it I took out msn explorer and msn messenger. good riddance.