Windows Vista brought Windows Media Player 11, and Windows 7 brought version 12.īesides local playback of audio and video content stored on your drive, the player also features integration with the OS Libraries, metadata, ratings and album art management and can handle Internet streams with multicast. The Windows XP era was when there were several updates to Windows Media Player, starting from version 8 to version 10.
Windows Me was the first OS where Windows Media Player got a media library, skins and visualizations. Starting with Windows 98, every new version of Windows came with an improved version of the app. Advertisement Windows Media Player was bundled with Windows for a long time.
