You can click on the Playlists, Music, Videos, Pictures and more on the left to check more specific data. Run Windows Media Player on PC and you can see media files you ever played are collected there. To open Windows Media Player on your computer, you can press Windows key on your keyboard, type WMP or Windows Media Player, and then press Enter to open it. The following guide will show you how to use WMP in detail. You can directly open, update and use it. How to Open and Use Windows Media PlayerĪs it mentioned above, Windows Media Player is pre-installed on your Windows 10/8/7 PC. The WMP 12 enables you to better organize digital media collection, shop digital media content online, and sync media files to portable device. In addition, it has the capability to burn CDs, rip DVDs and CDs and more.

Windows Media Player can also play DVDs and CDs. The released Windows Media Player 12 is bundled with Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10 computer. Since the Windows 98 SE, WMP is pre-installed in every Windows system, as its default media player. The first version of Windows Media Player was introduced in 1991. There are many video and audio formats can't be supported by Windows Media Player. But while usage of Windows Media Player, you will still face some unsupported format issue. WMP also allows you to play files in other formats as long as the associated video codecs are installed. It is compatible with MP4, AVI, MP3, WMA, CDA, WMV, WAV, and other formats.

Windows Media Player supports all Windows file formats. When you want to play a media file in Windows, WMP will be the first option for you to open it. It is used for watching videos, playing music and opening photos. Microsoft Windows Media Player is the default player for Windows users which comes with with any copy of Windows. Top 3 Alternatives to Windows Media Player

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