Updating a previous Dot -- installation failed twice. Finally, I gave up and tried to start WMP 10 ... well, it turns out that the install got far enough to have replaced it. My library was gone, but that's not a big deal for me since all the metadata is in the files. The library import is also now asynchronous, which is quite nice (although no progress indicator, lame).

The player works beyond that, and wow -- what an improvement. Even while importing files in the background, it's _way_ faster than WMP 10 while still being quite reasonable on memory usage (which is why I use WMP to begin with).

The new library views are way more useful, way faster, and much more visually appealing (as is the player chrome). And being able to change the sorting at various levels (e.g. resorting the album view by artist) is totally sweet. I basically always listen to albums straight through, so the draggable cover art is tremendously useful for me.

Still lots of bugs, Urge doesn't work at all, but overall it's looking very good. Once the wrinkles are ironed out, this will be a player I use because I want to, not just because it's light on memory usage ...