Choosing the ‘best’ of anything can be a difficult task. Choosing the best media player for your computer is among those because, well, there are so many great choices. There are even a lot of great free media players.
Along with there being many different software options to sort through, there are many more features and capabilities to consider before identifying the best media player for your computer. We’ll try to pare down the list of considerations to help make that selection process simpler.
OPERATING SYSTEM
Well, to play a specific song from within Windows Media Player, you need to find the song in WMP’s library and play it from there. However, unfortunately, Windows Media Player does not add all of the songs you have on your computer to its library – this needs to be done manually. To be able to play songs you have on your computer from within Windows Media Player, you need to first add those songs to Windows Media Player’s library so that you can easily access them.
Whether you’re running Windows, Mac OS X or even Linux, there’s a player for you. The assumption here is that you are not satisfied with the built-in media player that came with your system. Many third-party providers either offer cross-platform, or custom-OS versions of their products. There still are a good many players that are Windows-only, so that narrows the field for other users. Intel Macs can operate in either OS X or Windows mode and there are some vendors that offer more advanced features only on their Windows products.