"I recently had the pleasure of visiting the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash. to experience Windows Media Player 11 for Windows Vista.

While there, I got a hands-on, close-up look at the coolest new Media Player features. I spent time exploring the streamlined interface; I downloaded music from the upcoming MTV Networks music service URGE; and I spent hours customizing views, album art size, and song lists. Media Player 11 had everything I had hoped the new version would and more, as well as just about everything Id read from the wish lists of community newsgroup posters in the past. It didnt take long to figure out that this was a total makeover of the last version.

Some of the unique features of Media Player 11 are a deeply integrated music library for both online and offline content, a new and improved interface, the ability to connect to additional hardware easily, and integrated, easy-to-use tools for following the process of any task (downloading music, burning CDs, synching music, or streaming video, just to name a few). Media Player 11 has a new integrated feel, too-one that makes online, network, and offline content indistinguishable.

Many of the improvements are due to the redesigned interface, which includes helpful shortcuts on the menus and menu bars, simplified trees and an improved and advanced media library. There are now Back and Forward buttons, giving Media Player a web-browser feel; a lightning-fast WordWheel search tool for getting through the library; and Xbox 360 support. And Im just getting started! In this article, Ill introduce the features I found most exciting, and features youre going to love when you get your hands on Media Player 11.

Reliability, ease of use, and hardware support
Windows Media Player 11 is by far the most reliable, easy to use, and complete music experience available. In my time with it, I found it to be extremely dependable. Its fast too, and it reminded me of expensive Internet jukeboxes normally found only in nightclubs and bars. As with those high-end players, the line between whats actually on the jukebox and what comes from the Internet is nearly indistinguishable. Media Player 11, in my opinion, is the best jukebox Ive ever experienced.

Enhanced, user-friendly interface
The Media Player 11 interface makes finding the media you want easier than ever. The complicated (and sometimes convoluted) trees that once appeared in the Media Player Library are gone. Now when you select a category from the Library, the content in that category appears off to the right instead of under the category on the left. Finally, no more long album and artist listings that scroll into infinity!

With the trees gone, Media Player 11 is easier to navigate than any of its predecessors. There arent any lines between the trees, album information, or CD cover art, and the default album art view now shows album art and track information in the center of the screen. All of this makes finding the information you want a lot easier.

Along with enhanced views, the buttons at the top of the interface contain new shortcuts. Some of my favorites include adjusting format and bitrate on the fly for CD ripping, and switching back and forth from audio to data settings for CD burning. With these new shortcuts, youll spend more time viewing and listening to your media, and less time managing it.

Finally, I love the new playback controls at the bottom of the screen. Theyre large and easy to use, and intuitive enough for anyone to easily operate. No more fumbling around trying to click those small controls from the old Media Player, and no more awkward scrambling for the mute button when your boss enters the room. "

by Joli Ballew

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By creating a specially malformed ASF file and inducing a user to play it, an attacker could overrun the buffer, with either of two results: in the simplest case, Windows Media Player 6.4 would fail; in the more complex case, code chosen by the attacker could be made to run on the user?s computer, with the privileges of the user. The scope of this vulnerability is rather limited. It affects only Windows Media Player 6.4, and can only be exploited by the user opening and deliberately playing an ASF file. There is no capability to exploit this vulnerability via email or a web page.

However, the patch eliminates additional vulnerabilities. Specifically, it eliminates all known vulnerabilities affecting Windows Media Player 6.4 ? discussed in Microsoft Security Bulletins MS00-090, MS01-029, and MS01-042 ? as well as some additional variants of these vulnerabilities that were discovered internally by Microsoft. Some of these vulnerabilities could be exploited via email or a web page. In addition, some affect components of Windows Media Player 6.4 that, for purposes of backward compatibility, ship with Windows Media Player 7, and 7.1. We therefore recommend that customers running any of these versions of Windows Media Player apply the patch to ensure that they are fully protected against all known vulnerabilities.

Windows Media Player for Windows XP includes components of Windows Media Player 6.4, but they are not affected by the ASF buffer overrun or by any of the other vulnerabilities discussed in the security bulletins listed above. However, the version 6.4 components that ship with Windows Media Player for Windows XP are affected by some of the newly discovered variants of these vulnerabilities. Rather than installing this patch, however, we recommend that customers install the 25 October 2001 Critical Update for Windows XP.

The Windows Media Player Launcher application was designed to be a small tool to launch the Windows Media Player with the file that you pass it as a parameter.

This is useful if you want to do an autoplay CD-ROM with any media file (AVI, WAV, ...) that the Media Player can play.

Using this program has two advantages over running the Media Player directly:
The program will search for the location of Media Player. This allows you to to use an autoplay CD-ROM in other computer although the Media Player be installed in a different location.

This application launch the Media Player in fullscreen mode, and when the play of the media file is over, the Media Player is closed.

Requirements:

Windows Media Player installed

Impact of vulnerability: Three new vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could be used to run code of attackers choice.

Maximum Severity Rating: Critical

Recommendation: Customers running affected products should apply the patch immediately.

Affected Software:

Microsoft Windows Media Player 6.4
Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1
Microsoft Windows Media Player for Windows XP

iPod plug-in for Windows Media Player 3.0.1742 is a useful tool which is designed to provide help with Windows Media Player. Using this version of MGTEK dopisp will surely bring you such helpfulness and convenience.

MGTEK dopisp is a plug-in for Windows Media Player that enables you to sync your MP3 music to your iPod directly from within Windows Media Player. There is no external user interface, no fluff, not even a program icon to click on. Just connect your iPod, fire up Windows Media Player, start moving your music to your iPod, and forget that the two once didnt play together.

It is a great a solution that is fully integrated into Windows Media Player.

Major Features:

1. Integration of your iPod with Windows Media Player 11.
2. Sync MP3 music from Windows Media Player to your iPod.
3. Sync MPEG-4 video from Windows Media Player to your iPod.
4. Reverse sync of MP3 music from your iPod to Windows Media Player.
5. Full support for MP3 tags, including title, album name, genre, ratings, and others.
6. Automatic conversion of unsupported music formats to MP3.
7. Limitation of the MP3 bitrate to save space on the iPod.
8. Support for playlists (normal and auto-playlists).
9. Support for album art.
10. Reverse sync of ratings from iPod to Windows Media Player.
11. Reverse sync of play-counts from iPod to Windows Media Player.

Requirements:

1. Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Vista
2. Windows Media Player 11

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WareSeeker Editor

Tag Support Plugin for Media Player and Media Center 1.1 is created to add support for various additional audio files tag formats into Microsoft Media Player v10-11 and Windows Media Center. This plugin allow you to use in Media Player or Media Center popular audio formats like m4a files from your iPod or iTunes, Flac, Ogg, Monkeys Audio (ape), Wav Pack (wv), Optim Frog.

• added support for WAV files tagged with ID3v2 tags in id3 wav chunk
• improved mp4 and ID3v2 tags support
  

Thaiphoon Burner 5.1 Build 1008 Beta 3 / 5.0 Build 0629 Final is the first known software that provides the easiest way to edit and flash SPD of RAM in Windows without using any additional hardware components! The second version supports 8 new Intel ICH7 series peripheral controllers, nVidia nForce 3 250GB and MCP55 controllers. In addition, Thaiphoon features an enhanced HEX Editor that enables to move the cursor by arrow keypad.

Thaiphoon Burner is designed for those who are in need of getting all available information from SPD about memory modules.

Using Thaiphoon Burner and appropriate technical documentation you can program any part of hardware that is visible as a SMB-device; for example, clock synthesizers, hardware monitoring sensors, SPD, etc.

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1. Enables you to reprogram SPD directly or in the special emulation mode. Thaiphoon Burner can load external SPD dumps and flash them into current EEPROM.
2. Creates a highly detailed report that can be saved after in a separate file.
   Supports for 25 Intel ICHx southbridges and 7 VIA southbridges: VT8231, VT82C686, VT8235, VT8233A/Ñ, VT8237/A. It fully compatible with all nVIDIA controllers
3. Knows about 635 unique manufacturer IDs of the JEDEC specification. Also, Thaif makes a search for any devices linked to the System Management Bus.
4. The latest version is fully compatible with DDR-II SPD data interpretation.