It included support for more media formats and added new features. Windows Media Player 12 was released with Windows 7. īeginning with Windows Vista, Windows Media Player supports the Media Foundation framework besides DirectShow as such it plays certain types of media using Media Foundation as well as some types of media using DirectShow. However, MSN Music was discontinued already in 2006 with the launch of Zune music players. In 2004, Microsoft launched digital music store MSN Music for new Windows Media Player 10 to compete with Apple iTunes.
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Windows Vista, however, dropped older versions of Windows Media Player in favor of v11, which included the removal of the Windows Media Source Filter (DirectShow codec). Windows Media Player version 7 was a large revamp, with a new user interface, visualizations and increased functionality. All versions branded Windows Media Player (instead of simply Media Player) support DirectShow codecs. Windows XP is the only operating system to have three different versions of Windows Media Player (v5.1, v6.4, and v8) side by side. Windows Media Player 7.0 and its successors also came in the same fashion, replacing each other but leaving Media Player and Windows Media Player 6.4 intact. Windows Media Player 6.4 came as an out-of-band update for Windows 95- 98 and Windows NT 4.0 that co-existed with Media Player and became a built-in component of Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows XP with an mplayer2.exe stub allowing to use this built-in instead of newer versions. In 1999, Windows Media Player's versioning broke away from that of Windows itself. ("v5.1" is the version number of Windows XP). However, Media Player continued to come with Windows until Windows XP, in which it was officially renamed Windows Media Player v5.1. In 1996, ActiveMovie was renamed DirectShow. ActiveMovie incorporates a new way of dealing with media files, and adds support for streaming media (which the original Media Player could not handle). In 1995, Microsoft released ActiveMovie with DirectX Media SDK. Video for Windows was first available as a free add-on to Windows 3.1, and later integrated into Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. In November of the following year, Video for Windows was introduced with the ability to play digital video files in an AVI container format, with codec support for RLE and Video1, and support for playing uncompressed files. Microsoft continually produced new programs to play media files. The latter was renamed Groove Music in Windows 10, and then finally Windows Media Player 2022 in Windows 11, which has since been backported to Windows 10. Windows 8 bundled Windows Media Player 12 along two other media player apps, namely Xbox Video and Xbox Music. Version 12 was released in 2009 along with Windows 7 and has not been made available for previous versions of Windows nor has it been updated ever since. It was made available for Windows XP and is included in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Windows Media Player 11 is the last out-of-band version of Media Player. Each versions of Windows may bundle several other media playback apps, namely ActiveMovie Control, CD Player, DVD Player, Windows Media Center, and Microsoft Movies & TV.
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For example Media Player versions 5.1, 6.4, and 8 were all included in Windows XP. Windows Media Player is a unique component, in that since 1999, each version of Windows came with two or more versions of it side-by-side. The player is also able to utilize a digital rights management service in the form of Windows Media DRM. The default file formats are Windows Media Video (WMV), Windows Media Audio (WMA), and Advanced Systems Format (ASF), and its own XML based playlist format called Windows Playlist ( WPL). Originally, it could connect to a number of online music stores, allowing its users to purchase digital music. In addition to being a media player, the app can rip audio file from compact discs, burn Audio CDs or MP3 CDs, synchronize content with a digital audio player or mobile devices, and stream media over the local network.