Getting to Know Media Player
Windows Media Player (WMP) is your computer’s one-stop media shop, with support for playing digital music, audio CDs, digital videos, and recorded TV shows; ripping music from CDs; burning files to disc; synchronizing with external audio devices; and much more. (Actually “one-stop” isn’t quite accurate. In Windows 8, you must use Windows Media Center to play DVD movies and listen to Internet radio.) Windows 8 ships with version 12 (technically, version 12.084) of this popular program (see Figure 9.1), which is essentially the same version as the one that came with Windows 7 (which was version 12.076). To launch the program, switch to the Start screen, type media, and then click Windows Media Player in the search ...
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