The LW Media player was designed by a LW contributor, not one of their programming staff. Along the way they've simply made some small updates to it. Interesting suggestion though, a better media player would be good. However as it is, since LW is programmed in mostly Java which is not memory efficient & the media player often suffers when the program is busy downloading & uploading. Adding more features to the media player may make LW more demanding on people's computers cpu & ram, or/& make the program itself suffer such as with freezes. Obviously the design of LW's media player is very basic at present.