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The most popular player on Windows

Windows Media Player (WMP) is a digital media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. Edit

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  • mattboy115 enthusiast

    This is my favorite Media Player on Windows. I like it because of the way it catalogs the music files. And the album art is really good. I also love the WMP toolbar function.

  • maskawaih fanatic
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    Anyone tried it on Windows 7? It's cool thing you know. Can't ever imagined WMP could be that quick to be opened. Even iTunes isn't that fast.

  • гуфыч expert

    Try KMPlayer

  • arfo90 expert
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    One of the good apls! it works very well and I prefer it to jetAudio!

  • n0v4m4r1n3 expert

    Mostly used for watching clips, it's great on 7.

  • Shamono expert

    Usually only use this to open up something real quick. :P

  • encarnegin expert
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    Con buenos codecs, lo lee todo

  • Coolaaron88 expert
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    Only because in 7 you guys need to fix your areo thumbnail for wmp, it needs more options, but I still love it.

  • NeedFeed expert
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    On Windows 7, when this does work with the source file, the image AND sound quality is better than with the VLC! Loving it, purely. I hope they would make BETTER MediaLibrary, since it is hard to navigate and go trough if you have lot of things in there. Mostly I use this for videos / movies. If doesnt work, then VLC. And for music, I go with Winamp & Spotify.

  • Jo0Lz expert
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    The default player for most of the file associations.
    It's ok, but I just like Zoom player, or Media player classic so much better.

    The fact that sound and executable stay in background on closing made me not want to use it at all... But it starts default a lot! :D

  • anomalousclouds fanatic
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    I don't really use it, but I don't dislike it. That said, I do find that WMP improves a little with every release.

  • Blackbird256 expert
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    WMP12 is just great compare to horrible WMP9.

  • chepa92 expert
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    Normal player but I like VLC

  • sokoloff fanatic
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    Fast and responsive. Use WMP 12 in Win 7. When combined with Windows 7 Codec Pack works ok. But sometimes when I have problems with picking right audio channel i use VLC.

  • Steve Doherty devotee
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    I use WMP as my primary video player and only use VLC for .MKV files.

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Website: microsoft.com/windows/...
Developer: Microsoft Corporation
License: Bundled
Version: 12.0.7600.16385
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Usage: 13 years, 10 months, 3 weeks, 19 hours, 56 minutes and 38 seconds
Usage since: 20 April 2007
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