Windows Media Player

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Developer’s Description

Get fast and flexible digital-media playback with access to smart organization features and online stores.

Windows Media Player 11 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. Check out the new Media Sharing feature.

Windows Media Player

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GENERAL

Release: November 3, 2006

Latest update: October 31, 2025

Version: 11.2509.7.0

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows XP
Windows 10

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 18,168,675

Downloads Last Week: 29

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User Reviews

3.5/5

880 User Votes

WORKS GREAT UNTIL WINOWS 10
griffragy13626February 25, 2016
Pros
does not work good with Windows 10
Cons
would like to see microsoft create a windows media player for Windows 10.
Summary
<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Mar 22, 2016<p/>this worked great on WIndows 10 on tell the last couple of months and now it closes out with no error message(s), just closes out, where can I find the close out report????
Wish it could be rated LESS than one star
ganerdJanuary 21, 2015
Pros
Impressive LOOKS only
Cons
Quality wise: It is a HUGE memory hog, painfully slow start up even stalls out other memory hogs like IE browser, and it tends to LOSE songs, especially those not specifically licensed to you. Microsoft's Personal Privacy/Security Problem, since June 28, 2001, when they settled with the US antitrust suit. According to MS' own whistle blowers, to reduce their huge anti-trust fines, secretively agreed to include government spyware in ALL their products reporting pornography, pirated media, etc.
Summary
TOO MANY other better, more secure media players out there to even try this :(
Wrong WIN Media Player version for WIN7
btakMay 5, 2014
Pros
Usually stable.
Cons
Requires XP.
Summary
I need WMP-12 as I have WIN7. Some how my WMP-12 got corrupted and I now see that it is unavailable as a download.
foreign language
warhooperFebruary 18, 2014
Pros
none that I could access
Cons
comes in German instead of English and when I guessed at what it said it failed to load. My version doubled all the music in the library...2 of every song
Summary
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baldy43January 26, 2014
Pros
Will not load to Windows7 Home Premium useless as is every other program that M/Soft puts out. All they want is for you to send them information so that they can try to fix it sometimes at a very high cost to the user.
Cons
No words can describe what I want to say.
Summary
As I stated first useless and it was about time that M/Soft put out something that worked right from the start.
Propably already installed on your computer!
weegee2899January 5, 2014
Pros
Play, rip, burn cds, and other things.
Cons
None that I can find.
Summary
This should already be installed on your computer. It came with mine.
Garbage!!!
DonybrukSeptember 1, 2013
Pros
Oh yeah, everything looks OK to start with nice album covers automatically downloaded.
Cons
After a while, it forgets some songs, or duplicates parts of albums, loses songs or whole albums and generally messes up your whole library. Also it tries to automatically "correct" or do things when you are manually entering in the correct information.
Summary
Totally unusable. I have lost songs I will have trouble getting again somewhere.
*Sees picture* ohhh memories
tomysshadowJanuary 8, 2013
Pros
Starts up fast and plays most music files. And videos... even Quicktime MOV!
Cons
Not very many. Except the hidden menus and that live streaming is disabled by default. Not a fan of the Library idea either.
Summary
Can't play what it can't find
Cabby_ZAugust 31, 2012
Pros
It's stupid simple
Cons
Stupid... it's that simple
Summary
There are at least fifteen songs on my computer, (yes, they're in my "Music Library" with all my other songs) that WMP can't see on it's own. If I double-click the song from Windoes Explorer, WMP plays it just fine. But if I open WMP and try to find the song, the player comes back with nothing. You can't add a song to a playlist if the program can't see it on it's own.
don't think it worked!!
mar00cusAugust 14, 2012
Pros
quick dwnload
Cons
i don't if it worked...i really wanted it to replace whatever was already on there. i'm just not too sure
Summary