Windows Media Player lets you listen to and watch music, thanks to the player's visualization component.
Windows Media Player is an all-in-one entertainment application that comes with Windows. When Microsoft introduced the player with Windows 1.0, it played only CDs and basic waveform files. The latest incarnation is far more advanced and has components and capabilities that transcend those found in the original version released in 1991.
Player
Music and video lovers entertain and educate themselves using Windows Media Player. This player is the default media player in Windows. When a user clicks a song or video file, Media Player will play it, if it supports the file type. Supported file types include .mp3, .asf, .avi, .wmv and .mpeg. If the player cannot play a file, it attempts to download and install the software needed to play the file. The Windows Media Video (.wmv) format is popular on the Web. The compact size of .wmv files makes them ideal for sending as attachments through the email.
Smart Jukebox
With video and music scattered all over a hard drive, it is sometimes difficult to find a particular song or video. Windows Media Player's Smart Jukebox component simplifies your digital life by automatically organizing media files into categories as you add them to your computer. Tags also are essential to keeping a media library structured and easy to search. The Smart Jukebox tags each media item with up to 35 different pieces of information including artist, genre and album.
CD Burner
After collecting and organizing songs and other audio files, users can make them portable by burning them to CD. The Windows Media Player CD burning component reads a playlist created by a user and burns selected songs to disc. After burning, the CD contains the playlist songs in the order that the user specified in the playlist.
Enhancements
As the music plays, shapes and colors dance across the screen thanks to Media Player's visualization component. These visualizations are hypnotic swirls of color and shapes that pulsate with the music. Users can watch these in normal mode or enlarge the player and watch them in full-screen mode. Audio enhancement components include a seven band graphic equalizer and an SRS WOW effects generator that intensifies low-frequency bass sounds.
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