The Windows Media Player or WMV as it is popularly called is perhaps the best media player available as of now. This application can be used to play audio as well as video files as well as viewing images. As the name suggests, this application is compatible on the Microsoft Operating System. However, as of now, the windows media player has also been released for the Mac OS as well as Solaris. One of the best things about this player is that apart from simply playing audio files and videos, it also has the capability of ripping and copying music to CDs as well as DVDs.

With the help of the Windows Media Player, users can also buy or even rent music online from music stores from the Internet. The features that the WMP has to offer are truly the best that technology has to offer. For instance, with the help of this player users can also share data with the PS3 and the Xbox gaming consoles. In addition, since WMP uses DirectX filters, it is able to support any kind of codec format.

One attractive feature of the Windows Media Player is that it allows the user to view captions and even sub titles, provided they are present in the video or the audio file. When the user minimizes the WMP application, it actually displays the buttons that are usually used in the application like play, pause, next, previous, etc. on the taskbar itself making it very easy for the user to use the application even in the minimized mode.

The Windows Media Player also allows the user to tune into the radio and listen to his favourite radio channels like hip hop, rock, pop, classic, etc. This application was also made available for Windows Mobile, which has the Windows Media Player 10 Mobile, which looks almost as similar as the version 11. This is the one and all resort for adding new files with the speed being anywhere from 48kbps to 192kbps.

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