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8 unusual facts about Windows Media Player


Liquid Audio

Liquid Audio's solution was ultimately supplanted by RealAudio, and others such as Microsoft's Windows Media Player.

Microsoft PowerToys

Shell Audio Player was a Windows Media Player-based compact player which allows playing music from the taskbar.

OpenCodecs

The DirectShow filters support all DirectShow applications (like Windows Media Player), not just Internet Explorer.

Photo Story

Once a photo story has been made, it can be played on a PC using Windows Media Player.

Ron Kampeas

Windows Media Player audio interview of Kampeas conducted by Essing on IsraCast.

Simply Audiobooks

These downloads are DRM-protected WMA files which can be downloaded to any Windows computer with Windows Media Player 10 or 11 and are compatible with most MP3 players.

SonicStage

It comprises a music player and library manager, similar to iTunes, Windows Media Player and RealPlayer.

Windows Media Player

In Windows XP, it uses VMR7 by default, but can also be made to use the more advanced YUV mixing mode by enabling the "Use high quality mode" option in Advanced Performance settings.


I Could Fall in Love with You

Erasure's official website initially presented viewers with a "behind the scenes" look at the making of the music video for this song via RealMedia, Windows Media Player and QuickTime.

Look into the Eyeball

The single "Like Humans Do" was supplied with Windows XP Home Edition operating system to showcase Microsoft's Windows Media Player.

Tag editor

These are mainly taggers for common audio tagging formats like ID3, APE, and Vorbis comments (for example Windows Media Player and iTunes), but can also be taggers for JPEG, PDF and TIFF metadata (for example iPhoto).


see also

S1 MP3 player

Recording via built-in microphone or FM radio in ADPCM WAV (32 kbit/s mono or 64k bps stereo; using FFmpeg codec named adpcm ima wav), ACT (8 kbit/s) or VOR (32 or 8 kbit/s) formats, and ability to play back these files locally or via Windows Media Player when connected as an MSC device.