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Back in Windows 98, there was a Media Player and Windows Media Player.
In Media Player, there were 2 synthesizer, RipTide, and Yamaha. Changing synthesizers in Media Player was easy. But, I couldn't find a way to change the synthesizer in Windows Media Player. Whatever synthesizer I changed to in Media Player, would be the default for Windows Media Player.
Then, in Windows 2000 and XP, there was no Media Player, only Windows Media Player. And now I can't find a way to change the synthesizers. Then, a new laptop for XP I believe only has 1 synthesizer. Where can I download RipTide and Yamaha again... Neal 00:22, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Media Player exists in Windows 2000 and XP, but the file name is mplay32.exe and not mplayer.exe. The article previously said that Media Player isn't in Media Center 2005, but it is Windows Media Player 6.4 (mplayer2.exe) that isn't in this edition. I have Media Center 2005 and can still find Media Player. 198.82.59.120 00:53, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
There is no denying that this article does not cite any references or sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources (ideally, using inline citations). In addition, it has failed a few simple verifiability tests:
In my opinion, this article deserves to be marked for speedy deletion per clause one, Patent Nonsense. Frankly, I'm going to mark it for speedy deletion within one month. I have hesitated just to be 100% sure that it is classified as patent nonsense rather than hoax. (In any case, if it turned out to be a hoax and not patent nonsense, it will be marked for deletion.) So, he who has created this article has better add sources and inline citations. Fleet Command (talk) 21:45, 7 April 2009 (UTC) UPDATED: 16:35, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Why does the release history chart not mention Windows Media Player 10, other than that it was included in XP MCE 2005? Wasn't it available to regular XP? - Josh (talk | contribs) 20:39, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
I've just checked the redist application builds stamps for mplayer2.exe ver. Windows Media Player 5.1 (Build: 2nd July 1998) and 6.0 (Build: 2nd September 1998) yet the article states the release for 6.1 was 25th June 1998; implying 6.1 was released before 5.1 and 6.0 were even engineered into the redist.
I don't know release dates for 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 (mplayer2.exe, not the other one) or 6.0. Therefore I've not updated the article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by C:Amie (talk • contribs) 16:29, 14 May 2007 (UTC).
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What happened to the 'new' media player icon which had three panes of glass and a play symbol? Someone has changed it to this 'new' icon which looks like a glassed up version of the old icon. Is this correct or should the old one be put back.--Shaliron (talk) 03:31, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
I have come to see how Media Player compares with Real Player in performance but nowhere can I find any data. I am not concerned with appearence, just performance and quality of rendition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.21.103.171 (talk) 20:21, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Guys, haf you infos about WMP 12 ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.72.14.226 (talk) 11:10, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
I was going to ask the same thing, I've seen lots of "windows Media player 12 beta" floating around the net but cannot find anything on any microsoft pages. --Fredrick day 17:43, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm removing the Zune software section because it's not relevant anymore. It can be condensed to a single line and merged somewhere. The new software is the future. All that info on decoders is now useless and obsolete. And Microsoft's decoders anyways never implement full support for any video/audio standard. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.128.181.112 (talk) 05:49, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
The section on Windows Media Player for Mac OS X is all filled with criticism and maybe we should keep a little of it but not that much, since it's not a criticism section, but a section that describes the features of a particular version. So, I don't think we should add how badly Microsoft failed to provide good-quality software for Apple, but instead we should say what features are part of the ninth version of WMP for Mac, and let the users decide if it was good or bad.--96.239.4.18 (talk) 21:26, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
The article says WMP12 is compatible onlz to Win7. I believe this is caused by the library. So, does anyone know wether Microsoft does any efforts to develope a solution matching to WinXP/Vista? --Oli W 93 (talk) 13:55, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
There is a link from the Synchronized_Multimedia_Integration_Language (SMIL) page to here but this page tells nothing about SMIL? Does the MSWindows media player support SMIL? --HJH
I noticed that WMP 11 no longer (at least i'm unable to find or activate it) contains an internet radio tab / option. I looked for a plug-in but was unable to find one. Seems like a strange feature to leave off after having been in the WMP 9 & 10 versions. Might be helpful to add a note of what features changed or are missing. Unable to find a complete listing of features for each version on Micrsofts WMP pages so i came here. But unfortunately didn't find a thorough enough article to decipher between the versions.
There has long been speculation that WMP makes internet connections, including some that apparently can't be disabled. So far all I'm digging up are forum threads which aren't citable material. Certainly, you can see the activity yourself with a sufficient firewall (ie. NOT the windows one, which takes the liberty of letting MS stuff through without question), though I'm thinking a lot of that will be retrieving file information as instructed in the options.
One particular forum thread from a long time ago (XP & WMP10 days) I remember listed 4 IPs, 2 of which were Microsoft but the other 2 were owned by something like yahoo and one other corporate one, neither of which have any discernible business with that info. I'll see if I can dig it up.
It just seems that it's fairly well known online, that if you want to use that program you need to take pains to block it at the firewall level, yet there's no mention here. The more controversial WGA phoning home gets a mention I see.
81.101.248.235 (talk) 02:33, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
There was a Wikipage for this free, open source WMP 6.4 looking video player, but no the search query redirects to this page. WTF happened? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.225.52.60 (talk) 08:52, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
I suggest Windows Media Player 11 and Windows Media Player 12 articles to be merged into this article (Windows Media Player) due to the following reasons:
I encourage everyone to provide feedback. If no significant objection is registered, after some time (say a month) any Wikipedian is welcome to go ahead and merge the articles -- this humble included!
I'm appending merge proposal tags to the article. Fleet Command (talk) 08:58, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
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WMP12 was recently merged into this article by User:74.193.33.93. However, I see that the merge was extremely premature as this is nowhere near a consensus to merge WMP12. As such, I undid it. Plus the article is way too disorganized. One would need a shovel and an augur to find any version specific information If my two cents are any worth, I would advise against a merge till the entire article is rewritten with a proper flow and layout and a good navigational structure. Consider developing the article in a sandbox first. --soumtalk 04:33, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Support- Windows Media Player 11 and 12 are part of the windows media player family, just as internet explorer 7 & 8 are part of the internet explorer family. although the internet explorer family has separate articles for each version, it also has a "mini- article" for each version inside the main article. this is the ideal layout for a software line such as windows media player, Microsoft windows, or even Linux. --68.7.26.96 (talk) 02:48, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Well, everyone, Heads up. It is 1 May and time to conclude the discussion. Here is the summary of the votes.
VOTES:
Wikipedian | Vote for WMP 11 Merger | Vote for WMP 12 Merger | Comments |
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Fleet Command (talk) | Support | Support | |
xpclient Talk | Support | Support | Wishes the contents fidelity to be maintained |
SF007 (talk) | Neutral | Neutral | Suggests optimum article length to be considered |
w.tanoto-soegiri (talk) | Support (Strong) | Oppose (Weak) | |
Tmwerty (talk) | Oppose | Oppose (Strong) | |
68.7.26.96 (talk) | Support | Support | |
Keyang tay | N/A | N/A | Creator of Windows Media Player 12. Invited but didn't participate. |
Techmdrn | N/A | N/A | Creator of Windows Media Player 11 (contents not redirect). Invited but didn't participate. |
Warren | N/A | N/A | Regular contributor to both articles. Invited but didn't participate. |
soumtalk | N/A | N/A | Joined discussion but refused to vote. |
RESULTS:
Please feel free to discuss about the results for 3 more days. You may register objection about how your vote is counted. After 3 days, the discussion will be archived. Fleet Command (talk) 14:52, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
No objections? Everyone thinks the results are fair? So it is concluded, sealed and archived. Thank you all. Fleet Command (talk)
I would still advise against going ahead with the merger on the current article - its too fundamentally messed up to gain a good structure post-merge. I had fundamentally rewrote the article in-place once in the past but it has degraded beyond recognition. I would still suggest that a new article be developed offline (in a separate subpage) as a monolithic article which talks about the current released version throughout and specific versions be given their own section, without any constraint on how much space they take. If any section becomes too large, it can be split out and replaced with a summary in the parent article. We can reuse any text from the current article as necessary, but starting with a blank slate allows us to escape the pitfall most rewrites-to-fix-an-article fall into - the new information is moulded to fit into the structure already defined; not much thought is given into how to improve the basic structure, layout and navigational flow of the article.
I would have done it myself but I don't have the time to undertake such an undertaking. But if someone else takes the initiative, I can chip in time to time. Just my two cents. But if the person actually performing the rewrite feels he can better serve the goals by taking a different approach, who am I too disagree? --soumtalk 19:26, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, everyone.
Please help! I'm overburdened. It is three month now that I am working on this draft article and I HARDLY FIND ANY SOURCE! Please help me find verifiable sources!
Right now, there is virtually no verifiable source that explicitly says: Windows Media Player functionality and media support can be expanded via codecs! I have been all over the MSDN and Wikipedia and searched a lot but I find nothing. Some sources speak of a certain codec (or certain codecs) that can expand the functionality of Windows Media Player but none say that it can be expanded in general. There is no verifiable evidence that for example I can create a "FleetCommand Video Codec" and make Windows Media Player support a new, for example, "Fleet Command Video Format". Some sources on the other hand, speak about expanding media support of Windows and DirectShow filter but there is no evidence that these are connected to Windows Media Player. I also run into an article which described exactly what I needed about Windows Media Player 10, but lacked credibility because it has posted a screenshot of Windows Media Player 9. (Wikipedia Administrators will shoot it down on sight!)
This section of the article is not my only problem. The rest of the article also needs sources. It is as if
Common, Wikipedians. Please help finish this merger. All we need is sources. I'm sure a group of people which work together can finish, in no time at all, what a single person alone couldn't in three month.
Thanks in advance.
Badly in need of assistance, Fleet Command (talk) 08:02, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
History section of this article not only lacks sources, but also contains strange statements which seem to be either POV or Original Research, mainly because it claims three different lines of products called "Media Player" existed, allegedly known as "Media Player", "Media Player 2" and "Windows Media Player", each starting with an extraordinary version number. For example, it claims that the first version of Windows Media Player was version 6.4, without providing any source.
These allegations are all extraordinary and require sources. I'm tagging them properly and will delete them if they are not proved within a reasonably long period of time; say three month.
Fleet Command (talk) 22:35, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/versions.aspx
...was this article written by Microsoft? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.114.116.114 (talk) 05:02, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Windows Media Player shows a dark screen containing seemingly random lines and patterns containing colours that respond to the sounds of the recording. Should the article mention this? An image would also be helpful to illustrate if possible. Thanks. ~AH1 (discuss!) 20:20, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Mplayer2 is a fork of mplayer http://www.mplayer2.org/. This is already mentions on the MPlayer page. (24.150.41.31 (talk) 00:08, 26 April 2011 (UTC))
My experience is that after version 9 it has been going downhill. I never used Winamp to rip until this month. Now I am because wmp12 that came with Windows7 was unable to name the tracks for 2 recently purchased cds while Winamp was. Why is microsoft deleting so many useful features?1archie99 (talk) 17:59, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
I added a new section to the "features" portion. I need help with this: are the "Ambience" and "Musical Colors" visualizations supported for WMP11 & WMP12. I upgraded by WMP from WMP10 to WMP11 and I still have Ambience and Musical colors and I downloaded the new Dungeon Siege visualization from the Microsoft visualization gallery. This is said by those people who work at Microsoft that Wmp11 and Wmp12 both refrain from having the Ambience, Particle, Plenoptic, Spikes and Musical Colors. Album Art, Alchemy, Bars and Waves, Battery, and Dungeon Siege are the 5 current visualizations that would be supported in my WMP. However my WMP11 visualzation menu has this:
Somehow, I am lucky I still have Ambience and Musical Colors and that I added a new subsection to the "Features" section on the WMP page. ImhotepBallZ (talk) 18:39, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
I heard that Windows Media Player 11 can work for Windows 7. Windows Media PLayer 11 is origianlly included with 2008 Server, XP, and Vista, according to the "VERSIONS" table. I have a Windows 7 laptop and recently upgraded to Windows 7. Should I add Windows 7 to list of versions that WMP11 is included with? Please respond. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ImhotepBallZ (talk • contribs) 18:43, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Windows 8 is the first version in a long time in which the Media Player remained unchanged. The version of WMP is 12.0, the same on found in Windows 7. The only two notable thing that changed with WMP is the about box and lack of ability to play DVD movies out of the box. In the about box, the copyright has been updated to 2012 (in the Developer Preview of Windows 8, the copyright was still 2009).
Windows Media Player does not have a Metro Style version. Metro style apps are apps in Windows 8 that uses the new Windows Runtime (WinRT). There are separate metro style music and video app, but those are labeled as version 1.0.
I would like to note, however, that the Metro Style mail, calender, people, and photos app are a future versions of Windows Live Essentials software. This is because the version number of Windows Live Essentials 2011 is 15. The metro style versions of these apps are labeled to be version 16.
In conclusion, there is no Windows Media Player metro version, but there are metro versions of Windows Live Essentials Apps
--Part of a bigger project to better the world! (talk) 03:29, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
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The screenshots currently posted on this page do not illustrate the history of the software product as well as they could. The user interface should be typical to the time when the application was released or used most frequently (while possibly showing modern videos of topics unrelated to Microsoft).
The topic of the article is not the removal of, re-introduction of, or enabling of Windows Media Player, where an illustration of the software being fuctional in a foreign environemt would be fitting (such as in the article about Internet Explorer).
The unintended contrast between graphic elements following different styles, such as rounded and rectangular, makes the overall UI design look uglier than it really was. Such screenshots are as good as providing an album artwork cover with a year of its reissue prominently stamped across the center of it as the sole illustration for music article, cofusing readers unfamiliar with the history around that product. It is quite difficult already to put the different "versions" of the player on a timeline.
-- J7n (talk) 19:26, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
Yesterday, I added the following text to the section "2.4 Disc burning, ripping, and playback" of this article.
"Windows Media Player 12 (at least some, if not all versions) CANNOT RIP CD TRACKS. There is no setting to select a target directory. Thus, if a user tries to rip tracks, if they are ripped at all, they disappear into a Windows 7 "Library" --- effectively a black hole from which they cannot be recovered." The text was deleted with this comment: "When you add or change contents in articles, as you did to Windows Media Player, please cite a reliable source. Contents without source may be deleted peremptorily. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources. Thank you. Codename Lisa (talk) 03:06, 5 May 2014 (UTC)"
Here is my response:
1. The section without my contribution reads:
"Disc burning, ripping, and playback
Windows Media Player features integrated Audio CD-burning support since version 7 as well as data CD burning support since Windows Media Player 9 Series on Windows XP and later. 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 and playlists can be added to the CD as well. Starting with WMP 9 Series, audio CDs can be burnt with volume leveling.
Audio CDs can be ripped as WMA or WMA 10 Pro (WMA 10 Pro in WMP 11 and later) at 48, 64, 96, 128, 160 and 192 kbit/s, WMA lossless (470 to 940 kbit/s) (9 Series on XP and later), WMA variable bitrate (from 40-75 kbit/s up to 240-355 kbit/s), MP3 at 128, 192, 256 and 320 kbit/s, or uncompressed WAV (WAV ripping in WMP 11 and later). Since WMP 9 Series, 24 bit high-resolution CDs (HDCDs) are also supported, if capable audio hardware is present. Audio can be ripped using error correction and ripped audio can be protected with Windows Media DRM. Ripping to MP3 is supported only in Windows Media Player 8 for Windows XP and later if a compatible MP3 encoder is installed. Windows Media Player 10 included the Fraunhofer MP3 Professional encoder. Information on CDs such as album name, artist and track listings can optionally be automatically downloaded from the online Windows Media database when the CD is inserted. Version 11 added support for ripping audio CDs to WAV and WMA 10 Pro formats. For burning, version 11 shows a graphical bar indicating how much space will be used on the disc and introduced Disc spanning which splits a burn list onto multiple discs in case the content does not fit on one disc.”
There is not a single citation of a source in the entire section.
2. I have searched the internet for instructions regarding a target directory for ripping CD tracks with WMP 12. Every article repeats what MS says in the help files for the program. They all explain how to surf in a way which simply cannot be done. Therefore, any citation of a source regarding a target directory for ripping CD tracks with WMP 12 would be citation of a source which makes a false claim.
My suggestion is for people to try things for themselves rather than accept uncritically claims from MS, many of which are false (as anyone with any experience with MS knows).
Case closed. ---Dagme (talk) 19:02, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
What version of Windows Media Player does WIndows 10 come with? --Miss Paris Slue (talk) 02:17, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
The fact that Windows media player 11 can play apple .m4a files is not made clear in the main article — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.145.178.169 (talk) 10:10, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
Shouldn't the Windows DVD Player of Windows 10 be in it's own article?
I personally think that it's confusing to have both the historic dvdplay.exe, and the new Modern UI app.
The icons are also from the old Windows 2000 program and maybe if not a new article, it's own infobox will reduce confusion.
Matan2001 (talk) 11:02, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
Also, we need the icon that windows 10 uses. Giorgos456 (talk) 21:55, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
I don't know why the talk page of DVD Player is redirected to WMP's talk page, but it's not my point. My point is that I've managed to actually run and successfully play a DVD using Windows 98SE DVD player in Vista (SP2 x86). Simply done this steps:
Note: I have not tested it with Windows 7 or newer but I think it also should work. 62.152.151.253 (talk) 00:15, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
I have added Windows 2000 to the list of supported platforms for Windows Media Player 10. I know it is not officially supported by Microsoft however it has been successfully ported to Windows 2000 and thus I feel it should be mentioned here on the page. 71.13.16.249 (talk) 02:44, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
I currently run version 12.0.22504.1000, which is superior to the latest dev version on the wiki's page. However there is no information online about this version. I run Windows 11 22504, so this version of WMP could be a preview. If anyone has information about this version, please update the page. Win8x (talk) 03:15, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
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The page for Pacific Microsonics (of HDCD fame) redirects here, but this article makes no mention of them.
Is that a mistake? The only pages that link to Pacific Microsonics are the HDCD article and a talk page. Does there need to be a page for Pacific Microsonics at all? DDFoster96 (talk) 16:27, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
This is the new name of the old player.
"Windows Media Player (2022)" should also be moved to "Media Player (Windows)", as that is the name of the new program. 2607:FB91:2292:CB7D:536:9096:E688:18E3 (talk) 12:35, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
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– This is the new Windows Media Player. The first one got discontinued. Interstellarity (talk) 15:17, 14 April 2024 (UTC)