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Windows Media Player for Windows XP offers great new ways to store and enjoy all your music, video, pictures, and recorded TV. Play it, view it, and sync it to a portable device for enjoying on the go or even share with devices around your home, all from one place.

• Simplicity In Design - Bring a whole new look to your digital entertainment.
• More of the Music You Love - Breathe new life into your digital music experience.
• All Your Entertainment in One Place - Store and enjoy all of your music, video, pictures, and recorded TV.
• Enjoy Everywhere - Stay connected with your music, video, and pictures no matter where you are.


Microsoft's Windows Media Player 11, perhaps you want to break the monopoly of iTunes. It greatly enhanced the user experience by improving the interface style. The company is also committed to this media player program to build a flagship for the multi-media entertainment center, it even will be able to access AOL's online store, and mobile device synchronization and so on. We will wait and see its new features.

When you start Windows Media Player 11, first thing is that it may impress your totally revamped interface. Subversion of the previous dark blue hue, this time using a deep-ribbon panel gloss effect, you can also customize according to own fancy of the other colors. The left column of the interface provides a drop-down of the media resource library, the middle player window on the right column you can create playlists.The list supported to be exported, burning as well as mobile device synchronization.

Compared with the version 10, Microsoft has done a great deal of effort to make it easier for you to access the media list, either use the drop-down list, or the shortcut menu. "Play," "forward" and "Back" button to the most prominent display in the interface at the bottom, there would be flashy effect when the mouse rolls over the interaction. At the same time, Microsoft finally will use the search function integrated into the WMP interface. When you type the artist name or album name of song, WMP will immediately search results back to you.

Windows Media Player 11 to help you easily achieve the playback of multimedia content. Double-click the media resource library, where you can browse your music, pictures, movies and recorded TV programs, etc. media files. Thumbnails view, you can more easily help you to quickly preview of album art, pictures, thumbnails, video screenshots. Media library by clicking on the button under the "Update media information" option enables the computer to automatically scan for new media files. Playlist creation, but also simplified to just drag and drop the mouse, you can put more audio, video and pictures load into the playlist. Burning and ripping operation is also very simple, the only disappointment is that currently only support the file crawl into WMA, WAV or MP3 format.

There are still some instability in device synchronization feature. Although the creation and synchronization of media files, the operation is very simple, but still occasionally crash or could not be loaded situation in mobile devices, even if you press the refresh button and will not help. When we use the Pocket PC tests, we had to restart WMP 11 several times, in order to make it to the device to successfully identify and achieve music synchronization. But the device connected, it will appear in the left column, navigate the way there is no difference with the previous.

Media Guide is a Microsoft initiative corresponds to Apple's online store. In the home page, it guides you to the Windows Media, through music and entertainment information will you link to an online album sales. The page is fully displayed in the built-in browser window, its load quite fast. In addition to Apple's online store, you can still choose other well-known online sales sites to buy music albums, such as Napster, MTV `s Urge (the default e-shop) or eMusic. While the WMP 11 offers an online feature, but it not support the preservation and upload podcast feeds, just like iTunes do.

Indeed, compared to WMP 10, WMP 11 achieved a great breakthrough. The interface is more fashionable to browse more easily. At the same time, Microsoft has also realized through the completion of the mouse drag and drop playlist creation, device synchronization, burning and ripping operations. WMP provides online features, so you can more easily at several online music stores to buy albums, custom interface enables you to create a more personalized look and feel of the player. While there id a little bit unstable in the performance of device sync, and does not support podcast feeds, but WMP 11 will still a strong competitor of Apple's iTunes product.