Windows Media Player
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Windows Media Player is a video and audio player developed by Microsoft for Windows 11 and Windows 10. It is the successor to Groove Music (previously Xbox Music), Microsoft Movies & TV and the original Windows Media...
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Support for DLNA
- Bundled with Windows
- Lossless Audio
- Dark Mode
- Ad-free
- Works Offline
- Support for 4K
- Music Library
- Disc Burner
- DVD Burner
Tags
- Video Player
- bundled
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What is Windows Media Player?
Windows Media Player is a video and audio player developed by Microsoft for Windows 11 and Windows 10. It is the successor to Groove Music (previously Xbox Music), Microsoft Movies & TV and the original Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player information
Developed by
Microsoft Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 3Alternatives
218 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Love the visualizations and the GUI and how easily you can select a bunch of files to add to playlist.
It can't read like lots of codecs (.mkv above all)
it slows down very much ... I wait 25-30 seconds for it to open some song while aimp works 5 times faster
Lack of codec support (such as .mkv) and cause High Resource Usage
An extremely versatile and reliable media player. It is probably one of the most complex pieces of software that came out of Windows Vista and Windows 7: there are very few media players that can match WMP's complexity and features.
However, it is not favorable for those who prefer a minimalistic interface. Moreover, WMP only comes with a limited set of codecs: one would usually need to pair this up with K-Lite Codec Pack to make WMP any useful.
[Edited by 5247009, December 26]
Seems like its always forced on me and its annoying. The interface has been the same since i can remember. They need to make this simpler and redesign.
You wouldn't think, after all this time of making media players, microsoft would have trouble making one which indexed your library. You would also think that they would be able to give accurate information for song names when you update from the internet.
WMP 12 does neither of these. It's also slow & unintuitive. It also shows half my songs as zero bytes (if you don't chose all the options windows wants you to chose it doesn't really work properly).
Why can't I put the songs in title order and then start typing a track name to skip to it? because windows won't let me (that's a fairly specific person gripe).
I give it 3 out of 10.