Editor Rating 4.0

Version: 7.1	Size: 9.94 MB
License [?]: Freeware	Price: Not available
Last Updated: Jul 14, 2002	Category: Audio and CD Players Software
Developer: Microsoft
Operating System: Windows 98 Windows 2000 Windows ME Windows XP
Additional Requirements: 64MB RAM, Internet Explorer 4.x, sound card, Pentium-90MHz.
Limitations Not available

Windows Media Player 7.1 consists of seven features in a single application: a CD player, an audio and video player, a media jukebox, a media guide, an Internet radio tuner, a portable device that you can transfer music files to, and an audio CD burner. These software programs are combined into one easy-to-use application designed to make playing digital media a mainstream experience.

An audio CD creator and a unified player are also included with the program.

This program also allows you to play streaming and downloadable digital audio, video, and other Internet content; play back CD and digital recordings; use the jukebox functionality to play or copy an entire CD to your PC in just a few minutes with one click; and much more.

Windows Media Player 7.0 incorporated new built-in support for custom CD creation. It also included new skins, new visualizations, and a new Digital DJ skin that allows Media Player to create playlists. Version 7.1 adds Windows Media Audio 8 (WMA8) encoding, Windows Media Audio and Video 8 decoding, new smart transcode support for high-quality transfer to portable devices, and other enhancements and bug fixes.

Note: Windows Media Player 7.1 should not be installed on computers running Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0