Quickplay: Whats the point?

What is the point of hp Quickplay? It seems just like a glorified windows media player?
Also, what folder do i need to put all of my music in to use it on quickplay? I don't have a "shared folder", i have a "public folder" is that the same thing?

Is there any way to put ALL of the songs on the play list so i can just push play and listen to them all or do i have to select each individual one from my 1000 plus songs?

 

i think the main function is to be able to play stuff without booting up your computer. Inside of Windows it seems no different than Windows Media Center.

 

its also for ppl who dont have media center, like professional or home. maybe u need to put them in the shared documents folder?

 

does it really do this?

If i press the quick play button on my tx 1000 it boots vista then launches quickplay from within vista, and its a full boot, nothing quick about it.

 

same here? mine fully boots up

 

You have to re-install QuickPlay yourself, by actually partitioning 1GB just for the thing to work. More details on how to do this, if you do a search in the forum.

 

^^ is that it? i heard it didnt work in vista and only XP....

i'll search and take a look, but currently mine does the same thing (boots all the way into windows)

 

There are different versions of Quickplay, the latest Vista capable QP(ver 3.0)does not have this feature. Only Quickplay(2.0,.3 & older) have the bootable option. The older versions only work with XP. So, if you have a new HP notebook with Vista on it, Quickplay can only be accessed by fully booting into Windows.

 

oh, that makes sense. thats a bs move on hp tho! i was really lookin forward to that function....so basically quickly is worthless....media center is the same thing but better

 

I finally gave up on the whole damn Quickplay crap.
It was just a marketing ploy, doesn't really work and they know it, so they dropped it.

 

I've pavilion 1000t with XP home. QuickPLay actually corrupted some video files on the hard disk, some files got lost (didnot display in win explorer), I don't use it often, because of above problem and I don't think it saves any battery power by using quickplay over media player in windows. Also, you can browse the hard disk and select specific folders in quickplay, so that way you don't need to copy everything in one folder.

 

the main thing i don't like about quickplay is that i have to individually add each song on there. Its just annoying that i can't play ALL songs.

 

Marketing ploy? I think if they support the boot-off from a separate partition, it does work. Otherwise, yeah, it is almost useless. The worst part is that when it is playing in Vista, the screensaver will still kick in. What is the point of a player that doesn't temporarily disable screensaver?

 

The point is to be able to play media files without booting your OS. This means saving incremental amounts of battery life. If you are a person who travels frequently, this may be useful for plane/train when all you want to do is listen to music and/or watch a movie.

 

so basically its worthless on vista because we still have to boot completely?

 

Exactly! Looks like a piece of crap to me, worthless with Vista.

Some people have gotten v2.3 to work before Vista boots, but they don't use it more than once or twice because it's still a piece of crap even when it's working from the boot partition. .... and it's a pain in the ass to try to get it installed. If you change anything, it kills it again. So finicky.

 

I think HP needs to figure out a way to store and boot quickplay form a non-volatile memory chip soldered into the motherboard.

This wouldnt interfere with the partitions or OS reinstalls. They could code the entire thing with Linux as the core and have a really great UI.

 

Some how I have a feeling that it is a different version of Quickplay comming from HP for WME than the one you download from web. It is far better for watching movies than MediaPlayer, you've got no window bottons that way.

 

you can boot WindowsXP embedded running quickplay 3.0 on vista. you can totally run rhis from fresh install. you just have to install the software and set the partitions correctly. if you are interested, email me and i'll provide directions for xp to vista upgrade and vista to xp downgrade.

as for the shared vs. public folders. are you need to do is add the directories you want from the setup menu. just add the additional folders for it to scan.

email me for details. i have written specific directions for XP to Vista upgrades and Vista to XP downgrades.

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robwhitey at g mail dot com