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5 obscure media player apps for Windows to try this weekend

MPV is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, and OpenBSD, among others. The source code is also available on GitHub, so if you ...

Indie devs built the media controls Windows 11 should’ve had years ago

Third-party developers delivered cleaner media controls to Widnows 11 while Microsoft continues to prioritize AI over basic ...
Digital Trends

I gave the Windows Media Player another shot. Here’s what surprised me

Microsoft has had a strange relationship with local video playback for the past several years. It’s one of those features that was caught in the purgatory that was created with the start of Windows 10 ...

This free app plays music better than Windows Media Player

Windows Media Player isn’t the best when it comes to managing large music collections, organizing playlists, customizing the interface, and converting between file formats. Foobar2000 on the other ...
PC World

Windows Media Player loses the ability to play DRM media on older PCs

Last week, Microsoft updated a support page that tracks deprecated Windows features with a new announcement: legacy DRM services will no longer be available in Windows Media Player along with ...
Neowin

Microsoft updates Media Creation Tool ahead of Windows 11 25H2 launch0 0

Microsoft is getting closer to the release of Windows 11 version 25H2, but unlike version 24H2, the update is not going to be a very big one. Versions 24H2 and 25H2 are from the same branch, and, as ...