Microsoft Corporation - (Freeware)
With an ergonomic interface, Windows Media Player allows to play video and audio files offering many Smart Jukebox technology and support for most formats.
Windows Media Player allows to play audio and video files as well as images. It allows to view albums by pretty nice cover and indexing makes its appearance too.
Windows Media Player also offers Smart Jukebox technology player / jukebox 'all in one', which makes the search, classification and burn the digital media even easier.
It can play all the most popular formats , namely 3GP , AAC, AVCHD , MPEG- 4 and WMV and WMA formats, but it also supports AVI, DivX, MOV, and Xvid.
With previews of songs and Jump Lists to allow fast access to favorite media, DVD playback will be easier but at the same time more efficient.
The pimples that dotted the interface of older versions have been reduced in number, the play button offers more ergonomic and menu bar disappears by default and can be reactivated in the options.
Windows Media Player also allows user to rip music from an audio CD and save it in the library.
With Windows Media Player the user can create his own perfect audio CD from audio files on the PC. These CDs can hold about 22 songs in normal mode and a hundred in compressed mode.
- New UI
- Support for better synchronization for portable devices
- Album stacks of album art
- Indexed libraries with search-as-you-type features
- User controlled downgrade of quality for DRM content to allow for smaller files