Windows Media Player is the built-in media player in the Windows OS. Over time it has gone through a lot of transformations to get to the media player it is today. The newest version of Windows Media Player comes with lots of solved issues of the previous versions.

Features

• Plays audio and video

• Burns CDs

• Syncs with devices

• Organizes media

• Can be used for streams

Besides simple multimedia playback, Windows Media Player enables you to burn audio CDs. You can sync different devices as well. Organizing you media is possible too. In order to have better control over it, there are separate panes for music, videos, pictures and playlists on the main screen. Last, but not least, it enables you to play streams such as online TV and online radio stations.

Interface

Windows Media Player comes with a quite user-friendly interface, which enables you to organize your media with ease.

Basic Operations

As we have already mentioned above, Windows Media Player shines with its multi format support. Basically, it works with an enormous number of file formats: 3G2, 3GP, 3GPP2, 3GPP, ACC, ADTS. AIFF, ASF, ASX, AU, AVI, CDA, M1V, M2T, MTS, M2V, M3U, M4A, M4V, MID, MIDI, MOD, MOV, MP2, MP2V, MP3, MP4, MP4V, MPA, MPE, MPEG, MPG, MPV2, MTS, RMI, SND, TS, TTS, WAV, WAX, WM, WMA, WMD, WMS, WMV, WMX, WMZ, WPL, WVX files.

Conclusion

Windows Media Player is designed with a single idea in mind – to replace other applications for multimedia playback. Since it comes built-in with your Windows OS makes it, maybe, the most popular media player. Apart from that it proves to be quite reliable media player.