Improved interface

The first thing that will strike you when you start up Windows Media Player 11, is the complete revamp of the interface. No more deep blue, the whole application is now dark and shiny and you can customize it by selecting a hue of your choice. Windows Media Player's left side is a drop down pane for your library, the center displays your lists and the right side is used to create playlists which you can rip, burn or sync with a mobile device.

Compared to Windows Media Player 10, we feel that Microsoft has actually made an effort to simplify the interface and give you more ways to browse through your media list, whether by using the drop down menu or the quick rollout line on the top left. The 'play' and 'previous' and 'next' buttons are now nested at the bottom of the interface and have a jazzy glow whenever you roll over them. Microsoft has finally succeeded in integrating a good search function into its Windows Media Player interface. As you type the name of an artist or title the application will bring up the results in the main window.

Windows Media Player 11 makes all your media more accessible. Double click the Media Library button to browse from your music to pictures, movie files and recorded TV. The thumbnail view is a great way to quickly scan through pictures and videos and to include the album image to audio tracks. By clicking the “Media information changes” option under the Library button you can also scan your PC to automatically find new media files. Creating a playlist is a case of drag and drop and oddly enough you can integrate audio, video and pictures. Burning and ripping in Windows Media Player is also very simple, yet disappointingly converting is limited to WMA, WAV or MP3.

Easy to use

The sync process is promising yet remains a bit unstable. While it’s very easy to create a list and sync media, Windows Media Player can occasionally crash or fail to load your mobile device, even if you press the refresh button. When we tested it with a Pocket PC, we had to restart Windows Media Player 11 so that it would recognize it and let us sync our music. As soon as the device became accessible though, it also became visible on the left sided menu, making it very easy to browse through it for music or pictures.

A big improvement

Windows Media Player 11 is a huge improvement from version 10. The whole interface is snazzier and makes browsing through your media simpler. Microsoft has also made creating playlists, syncing, burning or ripping just a case of drag-and-drop. Windows Media Player lets you check out music on dozens of online stores and is loaded with small features to customize your interface and change how you interact with your media.

Conclusion

While the syncing process still remains a bit unstable and we lament the lack of podcast feed support, Windows Media Player 11 is a solid competitor to Apple’s iTunes.

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In addition, WMP Tag Plus allows you to also use the Advanced Tag Editor to edit the tags for newly supported formats. Windows Media Player 12 lacks the Advanced Tag Editor, but there you can use the new tag editor of the Windows Media Player Plus! plug-in to get the same result.

WMP Tag Plus is currently the only Windows Media Player tag support plug-in that is still up-to-date, actively supported and fully compatible with the latest versions of Windows and Windows Media Player. Other tag support plug-ins don't allow seeking during playback of newly supported formats either. Seeking is no issue at all when using WMP Tag Plus.

This plug-in is for the audio enthusiast who wants to use other formats than MP3 or WMA but still wants to stick with Windows Media Player's excellent library functionality.

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There's no doubt that XviD is an excellent media codec, allowing excellent compression ratios without sacrificing quality. If you're a connoisseur, or you're having problems viewing XviD media, you may want to try downloading the XviD Codec. It will allow you to make tiny adjustments to XviD specifications that will allow you to get the most when playing them.

There's no central XviD Codec interface. Instead, go to your Start Menu and access the Encoder and Decoder specifications from there. As you might expect, these codec specs are pretty technical, so you'd want to know what you are doing before you go poking around. XviD Codec also comes with an XviD MiniConvert, and a selection of Advanced tools - like a StatsReader, FourCC Changer and Quantization Matrices - that XviD experts will want to investigate.

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If you listen to music enough throughout the day, you'll quickly get tired of seeing the same old interface on your AIMP audio player. That's what AIMP skins are for. What if you like the look of Windows Media Player 12 better but still want to enjoy your music on AIMP?

That's where AIMP WMP 12 Windows 7 comes in and will give you both the experience and look you want. With a simple installation, AIMP WMP 12 Windows 7 will transform your AIMP player to look just like Windows Media Player 12. Every detail is identical to how WMP looks, still with the great usability AIMP fans have come to appreciate.

The only downside is that if you get tired of the WMP 12 look, AIMP WMP 12 Windows 7 doesn't come with any other skin options to switch to.

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AVS Audio Converter is a simple-to-use program that stands out of the crowd thanks to a clear interface, its support for all popular formats, and a handful of extra features you usually don't find in similar programs.

These extra tools in AVS Audio Converter enable you to extract the audio track from video clips or from audio CD, edit the file's ID tags, and even do some very basic editing to the audio file you're about to convert. The program also includes a small music player to listen to your selected tracks before converting them – but it doesn't play video files, which would be great when extracting the audio track from them.

Using AVS Audio Converter is piece of cake: you add the files you want to convert, select the appropriate target format from the list at the top of the window and press 'Convert now!'. If you prefer to tweak conversion settings manually (codec, sample rate, bitrate...), AVS Audio Converter also allows that – and you can save those new settings as a custom profile for later use.

AVS Audio Converter is a handy, easy-to-use audio converter with some extra features that make it stand out of other similar applications.

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Automatically searches for codecs online

Like UMPlayer GOM Player is one of those apps that goes unnoticed but proves to be excellent when you take the time to give it a try. It's a compact, easy-to-use video player lets you enjoy video files and movies in a wide variety of formats. What's more, you won't have problems with codecs because GOM Player already includes them – and if not, it automatically searches for the appropriate codec online.

Support for wide range of features

GOM Player shows off a sleek interface with support for skins and has other powerful features: support for subtitles, favorites manager, support for playlists, use mouse and keyboard shortcuts for many functions and more. What GOM Player misses, for example, is the ability to take screenshots or even more important, to resume playback right where you left it (something I personally use a lot).

GOM Player offers to install the Google Toolbar during its installation process but you may as well decline the offer. As for the rest, it's a great video player that's well worth a try… even if you already have a favorite player.

Conclusion

GOM Player is a visually appealing video player with very interesting features and which, above all, solves any problem you may have with codecs.

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