Windows Media Player 11

Windows Media Player (abbreviated WMP) is a proprietary digital media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and screening images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. Editions of Windows Media Player were also on the loose for Mac OS, Mac OS X and Solaris but development of these has since been discontinued.

In addition to being a media player, Windows Media Player includes the capability to rip music from and copy music to compact discs, burn recordable discs in Audio CD format or as data discs with playlists such as an MP3 CD, synchronize content with a digital audio player (MP3 player) or other mobile devices, and allow users to purchase or rent music from a number of online music stores.

Windows Media Player replaced a previous application called Media Player, adding features beyond simple video or audio playback.

Windows Media Player 12 is the most current version of Windows Media Player as of July 2009. It was released in July 22, 2009 along with Windows 7 and has not been released for earlier versions of Windows.

Windows Media Player 11 is vacant 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 chains its own XML based playlist format called Windows Playlist (WPL). The player is also able to make use of a digital rights management service in the form of Windows Media DRM.

Features new added to Windows Media Player 11

Windows Media Player 11 features a lot new changes. The Media Library no longer presents the media items (such as albums, genres and artists) in a tree-based listing. Rather, on selecting the category in the left panel, the contents will appear on the right, in a graphical mode with thumbnails featuring album art or other art depicting the item—a disappearance from textual presentation of information. The navigation pane can be tailored for each library to show the user selected media or metadata categories. Omitted album art can be added directly to the placeholders in the Library itself (though the program re-renders all album art imported this way into 1×1 pixel ratio, 200×200 resolution jpegs). There are separate Tiles, Icons, Details or Extended Tiles views for Music, Pictures, Video and Recorded TV which can be set on your own from the navigation bar. Entries for Pictures and Video display their thumbnails. Windows Media Player 11 also holds up the Windows Media Format 11 runtime which adds low bitrate support (below 128 kbit/s for WMA Pro), support for ripping music to WMA Pro 10 and updates the unique WMA to version 9.2. Other features include:

• Instant Search – Searches and displays outcome as characters are being entered, without waiting for Enter key to be hit. Incremental search outcome are refined based on further characters that are typed.
• Enhanced 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 simulated back to the PC.
• Support to rip audio CDs to WAV and WMA 10 Pro formats.
• 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 Sound Bridge. This includes DRM protected PlaysForSure substance. WMP 11 on Windows Vista can also connect to remote media libraries using this characteristic; this is not available on the Windows XP version.
• Disc spanning splits a burn list onto multiple discs in case the fillings does not fit on one disc.
• Portable devices have been added in the navigation pane of the library where their content can be browsed and searched.
• Shuffle Sync to randomize content synced with the portable device, Multi PC Sync to synchronize portable device content transverse multiple PCs and Guest Sync to synchronize different content from multiple PCs with the portable device.
• The List pane contains an option to prompt the user to remove items skipped in a playlist upon save or skip them only during playback.
• CD Burning – CD Burning now shows a graphical bar presenting how much space will be used on the disc.
• Stacking – Stacking allows graphical representations of how many albums are there in a definite category or folder. The pile appears larger as the group contains more albums.
• Global Status – Global status shows a broad indication of what the player is doing. The information presented includes status information concerning buffering, ripping, burning and synchronization.

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