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2. Windows Media Player - Wikipedia

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   Windows Media Player supports playback of audio, video and pictures, along with fast forward, reverse, file markers (if present) and variable playback speed (seek & time compression/dilation introduced in WMP 9 Series). It supports local playback, streaming playback with multicast streams and progressive downloads.

3. Windows Media Audio - Wikipedia

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   Windows Media Audio ( WMA) is a series of audio codecs and their corresponding audio coding formats developed by Microsoft. It is a proprietary technology that forms part of the Windows Media framework. WMA consists of four distinct codecs. The original WMA codec, known simply as WMA, was conceived as a competitor to the popular MP3 and ...

4. WinPlay3 - Wikipedia

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   WinPlay3 was the first real-time MP3 audio player for PCs running Windows, [2] [3] [4] both 16-bit (Windows 3.1) and 32-bit (Windows 95). Prior to this, audio compressed with MP3 had to be decompressed prior to listening. It was released by Fraunhofer IIS ("Institute for Integrated Circuits"), [5] creators of the MP3 format, on September 9 ...

5. Windows Media Player (2022) - Wikipedia

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   Windows Media Player (or simply Media Player) is a video and audio player developed by Microsoft for Windows 11 and subsequently backported to Windows 10. It is the successor to Groove Music (previously Xbox Music), Microsoft Movies & TV and the original Windows Media Player. It started rolling out to Windows 11 Insider channels in November ...

6. Sonique (media player) - Wikipedia

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   Sonique is an audio player for Microsoft Windows. Released as freeware, Sonique is capable of handling MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Windows Media Audio (WMA), and audio CDs. Sonique was in development until 2002. It was one of the most popular desktop audio players, second only to Winamp. The major features of Sonique include support for irregular skins ...

7. Music download - Wikipedia

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   Music download. A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without ...

8. Gapless playback - Wikipedia

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   Windows Media Player, has supported gapless ripping and playback of WMA since Windows Media 9. Available on all current Windows machines. XMPlay, supports gapless playback for all format files; Alternative or partial solutions: XMMS2 – has native support for gapless MP3 / Ogg Vorbis and FLAC; See also. Segue, the technique in classical music

9. M3U - Wikipedia

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   M3U ( MP3 URL [1] [2] or Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator [3] in full) is a computer file format for a multimedia playlist. One common use of the M3U file format is creating a single-entry playlist file pointing to a stream on the Internet. The created file provides easy access to that stream and is often used ...