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  2. Dec 1, 2023 · Windows 11 introduces a new Media Player that replaces older media apps, making it one of the best improvements in the operating system. The new Media Player has a modern design, can play videos and music, organize your collection, and rip CDs.

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    • How to Get The New Windows 11 Media Player
    • Introducing Windows' Three (or Four) Media Players
    • Playing Music in Windows 11’s New Media Player
    • Playing Video in Windows 11's New Media Player
    • Casting Your Media from Your Windows 11 PC

    The new Media Player app arrived between the big annual Windows “feature updates”—those with names like 22H2. It’s a continuation of Microsoft’s one-time claim that Windows has become a servicerather than a set version of software. I’m all for that. It also means that some users receive the update before others, so if you’re still seeing Groove, gi...

    Media players included in Windows have taken many forms over the years. The basic Windows Media Player has been around in one form or another since 1991. The Movies & TV app, also available in Windows 11, lets you watch videos stored locally or online as well as shows you can buy or rent in the Microsoft Store. Groove—which is being replaced—plays ...

    As mentioned, the new Media Player app is not in the Microsoft Store. The only way to get it is by updating Windows. Once it appears, Groove will be gone, and any playlists you had in that app will now show up in Media Player.

    As with audio, Media Player supports all major (and a bunch of minor) video formats and codecs (55 at present), including open source ones like MKV and OGV. The same note about adding folders rather than opening files holds true for video, though your video folders are separate from your audio folders. I was able to play even an 8K video file shot ...

    Like Movies & TV, Media Player lets you cast your playing media to a compatible device, and it works for both audio and video together. I tested it by sending music playing on my Surface Laptop 3 to a Roku Expressmedia streamer. The app uses Windows 11’s built-in casting capabilities, so when you enable casting, anything on your PC screen appears o...

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  3. Windows Media Player (WMP, officially referred to as Windows Media Player Legacy to distinguish it from the new Windows Media Player introduced with Windows 11) is the first media player and media library application that Microsoft developed to play audio and video on personal computers.

  4. Jun 11, 2019 · Learn all you need to about Windows Media player in Windows 10. One of Windows longest surviving default application.

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  5. May 6, 2024 · The Microsoft Windows Media Player, also known as WMP and Wmplayer, is Microsoft's fully functional media player that is included for free with any copy of Windows. It allows users to view photos, play music from a CD (Compact Disc) or music file, and watch video media.

  6. Nov 17, 2021 · Microsoft has built a new media playback app for Windows 11 to supplant both Windows Media Player, which hasn't really changed since 2009, and the Groove Music app. Windows Insiders can...

  7. Get Windows Media Player for your version of Windows, or learn how to play Windows Media files on your Mac. Get the details here.

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