New Media Player for Windows 11 Available to Windows Insiders

[Corrine]

New Media Player for Windows 11 begins rolling out to Windows Insiders

The new Media Player for Windows 11 was released to all Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel in November and has now been released to Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel.

At the heart of Media Player is a full-featured music library that allows you to quickly browse and play music, as well as create and manage playlists. If your music collection is in Groove Music today, your library and playlists will automatically migrate to this new experience. The update to the new Media Player will replace the Groove Music app.

Learn more about the new Media Player in the referenced blog post.

 

[britechguy]

For those that are enrolled as Insiders, I'm curious to know if this new Media Player is going to cause classic Windows Media Player to be pulled from the versions of Windows 11 that receive it?

I still use "Windows Media Player Classic" under both Windows 11 and Windows 10.

 

[Corrine]

In the blog post it is indicated:

If you use the legacy Windows Media Player today, it will continue to be available in Windows Tools.

Of course, I have no way of knowing if that decision will continue.

 

[britechguy]

@Corrine

Thanks. I did look at the blog post, but stopped before that line. I find a lot of these posts fall into the TL;DR category for me, particularly the ones that read like they came straight out of the marketing department!