Windows Media Player 12 Reviews

Using Windows media player, you can play audio, video and viewing images. In addition to being a media player, it also has the ability to rip music from and copy music to compact discs, build Audio CDs.

Pros

Windows media player can be used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. It is able to to rip music from and copy music to compact discs, build Audio CDs in recordable discs and synchronize content with a digital audio player (MP3 player) or other mobile devices, and enables users to purchase or rent music from a number of online music stores.

Cons

There is a limited format that Windows media player supports. Such as .flv, .mpeg, .ogg that windows media player can not support.

Benefits

Windwos allows users to connect, share and sync data with portable handheld devices and game consoles, and the media can be optionally transcoded to a format better suited for the target device, automatically, when synchronizing. It has ablility of playback of audio, video and pictures, along with fast forward, reverse, seek and time compression and dilation. It supports local playback, streaming playback and progressive downloads, and support for any media codec and container format using specific DirectShow filters.

Windows media player features a taskbar-mounted Mini mode in which the most common media control buttons are presented as a toolbar on the Windows taskbar. Flyout windows can display media information, the active visualization or the video being played back. It also integrates CD-burning support for audio as well as data CDs. Data CDs can have any of the media formats supported by the player. While burning Data CDs, the media can, optionally, be transcoded into WMA format.

It provides an embeddedable ActiveX control for Internet Explorer so that developers can play Windows Media on web pages. And a fully featured tag editor was featured in versions 8-11 of WMP, called the Advanced Tag Editor. However, the feature was not present in the latest preview version of Windows Media Player 12.

Interface

Windows media player's interface is illuminating and well designed with eye-catching visuals.

Setup

By default Windows 7 has Windows Media Player 12 as the default media player. You do not need to install it in purpose. When you Install windows 7 System on you computer, Windows will be installed as default.

System requirements

Windows Media Player (abbreviated WMP) is a digital media player and media library application of Microsoft. It can supports for Windows all, including windows 12 can supports Windows 7. Microsoft has also released versions of Windows Media Player for other platforms including Windows Mobile, Mac OS, Mac OS X, Palm-size PC, Handheld PC, and Solaris.

Conclusion

All in all, Windows media player is continuously updated. And its functions will be more powerful. You will play vedio and audio more easily. Now Windows Media Player 12 is available for free download.