Windows Media Player 11

Windows Media Player offers great new ways to store and enjoy all your music, video, pictures, and recorded TV. Play it, view it, and sync it to a portable device for enjoying on the go or even share with devices around your home—all from one place.

Features

Simplicity In Design
Bring a whole new look to your digital entertainment.

More of the Music You Love
Breathe new life into your digital music experience.

All Your Entertainment in One Place
Store and enjoy all of your music, video, pictures, and recorded TV.

Enjoy Everywhere
Stay connected with your music, video, and pictures no matter where you are. Check out the new Media Sharing feature.

Windows Media Player 11 is available for Windows XP and included in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. The default file formats are Windows Media Video (WMV), Windows Media Audio (WMA), and Advanced Systems Format (ASF), and supports its own XML based playlist format called Windows Playlist (WPL). The player is also able to utilize a digital rights management service in the form of Windows Media DRM.

connet Stacking allows graphical representations of how many albums there are in a specific category or folder. The more items there are, the larger the pile or stack is.

connet Instant Search - Searches and displays results as characters are being entered, without waiting for Enter key to be hit. Results are refined based on further characters that are typed.

connet CD Burning now shows a graphical bar showing how much space will be used on the disc.

connet Global status shows a broad overview of what the player is doing. The information presented includes status information regarding buffering, ripping, burning and synchronization.

connet Improved synchronization features for loading content onto PlaysForSure-compatible portable players. WMP 11 supports reverse-synchronization, by which media present on the portable device can be replicated back to the PC.

connet Support for ripping audio CDs to WAV format.

connet Media Sharing (via Windows Media Connect) allows content (Music, Pictures, Video) to be streamed to and from Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) AV enabled devices such as the PS3, Xbox 360, and Roku SoundBridge. This includes DRM protected PlaysForSure content. WMP 11 on Windows Vista can also connect to remote media libraries using this feature; this is not available on the Windows XP version.

connet Integrated web-browsing support to browse online music stores

connet Disc spanning splits a burn list onto multiple discs in case the content does not fit on one disc.

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