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Features of Windows Media Player 9 Series
Windows Media Player 9 Series offers fast and flexible playback with superb audio and video quality for Windows and the Web. Experience great organizing and burning features for your digital content, with special new features optimized for Windows XP.
Fast and Flexible Playback
 
New mini Player mode and Queue-It-Up (available only with the Windows XP version)
The new mini Player mode docks the Player into your taskbar for instant access while saving space. Prefer full-screen mode? Play music or video at full screen with controls that disappear when you're not using them.
Want to add a song to your playlist? Add new music from any folder or from the Media Library in just one click with Queue-It-Up!
Instant-on/Always-on streaming
Say goodbye to buffering with Fast Streaming. Windows Media Player enables a smooth streaming experience for broadband users when accessing content from servers running Windows Media Services 9 Series.
Mix your music DJ-style with Crossfading and Auto Volume Leveling
Crossfading blends the end of one song into the beginning of another with no "dead air" for seamless playback. Auto Volume Leveling equalizes volume across tracks for uninterrupted playback.
Variable speed playback (available only with the Windows XP version)
Control the speed of audio or video without changing the pitch and tone—the perfect feature for skimming through a long video or for aiding comprehension.
Media Link
Share clips with your friends such as streamed news, presentations, home movies, and more by using the Media Link for E-mail.
Fast and flexible playback
All-in-one ease of use and fast performance gets you playing your music and video fast, from startup and playback, to CD burning and managing large digital media libraries. Now you can more easily and quickly download and stream your music, with more types of storage media than other players such as audio CDs, High Definition Compatible Digital (HDCD) CDs, DVDs, CompactFlash (CF) cards, SmartMedia cards, MultiMedia cards (MMC), Secure Digital (SD) cards, and more!
Now Playing Info Center View (available only with the Windows XP version)
Access a wide range of information about the music that you play. Features include album art, music videos, downloads, biographies, discographies, reviews, news, related artists, and much more. When you play DVDs, you even get DVD cover art, chapter information, and reviews.
Quick deployment and customization for the enterprise
Customize deployments, upgrades, and the look of the Player using the Enterprise Deployment Pack (EDP). Available in over 26 languages, and now with support for multiple-language streaming and captioning for global organizations.
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The First All-In-One Smart Jukebox
Copy your CDs to your computer with ease—no more problems with finding, organizing, and burning your digital media. Be your own DJ with new smart jukebox features, audio CD burning with volume leveling, and support for more devices than any other player!
Smart features enable automatic organization (available only with the Windows XP version)
Windows Media Player 9 Series is the only jukebox with Auto Folder Monitoring and Auto Find features to automatically organize your digital media files—even if you move them to multiple folders, hard disk drives, or other computers.
Auto playlists and ratings
Personal ratings and auto playlists are a great way to find the music and videos that you want, when you want them. Rate your favorite songs on a 1 through 5-star scale, or use the built-in Auto Ratings feature, which assigns ratings based on the number of times played. Auto playlists take the hassle out of creating and editing mixes—over 20 auto playlists are available with the Player, for everything from your favorite weekday music to one audio CD's worth of music ready to burn for the road.
Automatically update album information in your MP3 and WMA collection (available only with the Windows XP version)
Adjust the Player settings to automatically update or even add album details (tags) to your MP3 and WMA files, such as artist or album name, year, composer, and track number.
New Advanced Tag Editor (available only with the Windows XP version)
View and edit over 35 different types of media information including mood, comments, artist photos, synchronized lyrics, and much more.
Quickly burn professional-sounding audio CDs with Auto Volume Leveling
Burn your own professional-sounding audio CDs with automatic volume leveling that equalizes the volume of tracks across your playlist. Plus, easily burn your music and video on a CD-R to use on Windows Media-compatible DVD players, car stereos, and portable CD players.
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Best Audio and Video
Supreme-quality audio and video
Experience exquisite audio and stunning video at any connection speed with the Windows Media Audio and Video 9 Series codecs. Take advantage of variable bit rate (VBR) audio and new compression that delivers MP3 quality at half the size, so you can carry more music on your computer, CD-R, and more than 300 devices. The Windows Media Video 9 codec delivers the best-quality video at the smallest download sizes or streaming speeds. Plus, innovative breakthroughs take digital media to the next level!
True multichannel audio
Bring the high-end audio experience to your computer and the Web. The Windows Media Audio 9 Professional codec supports 24-bit, 96 kilohertz (kHz) audio with support for 5.1+ channel audio as low as 128 Kbps.
Lossless audio (available only with the Windows XP version)
Create archive-quality copies of CDs by selecting the Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless format.
High-resolution, 20-bit HDCD playback (available only with the Windows XP version)
Previously available only on high-end and professional CD and DVD players, the Microsoft HDCD audio-enhancement technology delivers full 20-bit playback with HDCD-encoded CDs.
New video-smoothing technology for narrowband content
Because most low-bit-rate content is created with only about half of the motion of the original, video smoothing works by inserting (interpolating) this motion for smoother playback.
Hardware-based Windows Media video acceleration
Next-generation video cards from industry-leading manufacturers (including ATI and NVidia) improve video performance.
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