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.

Windows Media Player often downloads media codecs to play an unsupported file on Windows 11/10 PC. However, if you do not let it download automatically due to ...

Microsoft has announced it is killing off Windows legacy DRM support on Windows 8, Windows 7, Silverlight, and legacy Windows Media Player. Recently, Microsoft gave the first official on-record ...

Microsoft notes in a support document spotted by Windows Latest that users soon won't be able to view the title, genre, and artist for songs in the apps, and the apps will stop showing actors, cover ...

Last week, Microsoft updated a support page that tracks deprecated Windows features with a new announcement: legacy DRM services will no longer be available in Windows Media Player along with ...

I've been having a problem with watching movies encoded in divx on Windows Media Player (version 10 and 11). The movies appear black and white, but there is a red and/or blue ghost image as well. I've ...

Media player software for Windows from Microsoft that plays a variety of audio, video and streaming formats including MP3, WMA, CD audio and MIDI. Starting with Version 6.2 in 1999, the Windows Media ...