Windows Media Player in Windows 7 is going to lose a feature. The same also goes with Windows Media Center across Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.

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Either upgrade to Windows 10/11 or install another media player app on your PC.

We show you how to open Windows Media Player Legacy as well as the new Media Player app in Windows 11/10. There are multiple ways to do so.

Microsoft has built a new media playback app for Windows 11 to supplant both Windows Media Player, which hasn't really changed since 2009, and the Groove Music app. Windows Insiders can start ...

Fix Windows Media Player cannot play the file, The player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file.

With Windows 7 nearing its end of extended support, Microsoft has seemingly begun retiring some services for the OS. The updating of metadata is now unsupported in Windows Media Player in Windows 7.

People looking to uninstall the test version of the new media player software may find the program is like a bad houseguest: It just won't leave.