Music

Your music just got easier to love. Store all your songs, download new music, and have fun with new features that make it simple to find, mix, and enjoy your music exactly the way you want.

Create a soundtrack for your life

Think of your ever-evolving music library as a soundtrack for your life. With Windows Vista, your music collection can grow—and go—with you. Use Windows Media Player 11. to rip CDs to your PC, get new tracks, listen to Internet radio, or subscribe to an online music service^I such as MTV's URGE music service (U.S. only), which is conveniently built into the media player. Enjoy the ease with which you can connect to and sync with your portable devices. It's digital music in a whole new way—yours.

Discover a world of new and exciting music.

Get more from your music

What could be easier than browsing your library and cueing up music with a few clicks of a remote control? Sit back and enjoy the music with Windows Media Center and a compatible remote.^M Use it to quickly search and select tracks visually (by album art), or search and browse by artist, album title, song, genre—even year. Pass the remote and let friends mix in their favorites, too.

Convenience in hand.

Be your own DJ

Take the new jukebox for a spin and give everyone a chance to mix and play their favorites. Whether you prefer a small, neatly arranged collection of tunes or a sprawling aural jungle of genres and eras, Windows Media Player 11 gives you the power to fine-tune your library and your listening. Build playlists based on artists, genre, year, or your own personal ratings. Then let your friends or family in on the action—with Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista Ultimate, you can find and play your music on a TV screen with Windows Media Center and a compatible remote and see what comes together. The hottest DJs mix decades and genres. Why shouldn't you?

Browse your music library in a whole new way.

Take your tunes to go

Wherever you're headed, now you can take your music along for the ride. Make your own custom road mixes—just burn select music files to recordable CDs. And, with Sync Center, sending music files from your PC to a compatible portable music player is a snap. Portable music players bearing the PlaysForSure logo will be recognized by Windows Vista as soon as you plug them in—with no need to load third-party drivers or other software. Using Windows Vista with your portable music device will ensure that your music is ready to go when you are.

Sync it all, right from the Sync Center.

Turn any room into a disco

With Windows Media Center you can enjoy your entire music collection with remote-control convenience from TV screens throughout your home using the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system and other devices. You can use either wired or wireless networking, and you can listen to music from your Windows Vista–based PC even if another member of the household is using the computer in another room. After you've connected your PC to your Xbox 360 system or your digital media receiver, just grab a compatible remote control, select your favorite tunes or playlist from your TV or PC screen, pump up the volume, and get your groove on.

Enjoy Windows Media Center anywhere you're using Xbox 360.

Never lose the beat

Use Basic File Backup and Restore ^A to automatically back up your collection to another PC or hard disk drive on your home network so you'll never have to worry about losing your ripped or downloaded tunes. With Windows Vista, you can quickly create custom music CDs for use in your home stereo, your car, your DVD player, or on another computer—after all, compiling music you want to hear in the order you want to hear it is what makes creating custom mixes so much fun.

Fill your home with music

The media-sharing feature in Windows Media Player 11 makes it possible to stream your entire music collection to virtually anywhere in your home. Access the music on your PC from another computer, digital media receiver, or any other devices connected to your home network^N, and you'll be set to rock out in as many rooms in your house as your imagination and your network will allow.

Some product features are only available in certain editions of Windows Vista and may require advanced or additional hardware.