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Add to SafariWhen comparing Windows Media Player vs Mellow Player, the Slant community recommends Windows Media Player for most people. In the question“What are the best audio players for Windows?” Windows Media Player is ranked 26th while Mellow Player is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose Windows Media Player is:
While ripping a CD onto the computer, it easily saves the information for the songs, while storing on the media player.
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Pros
Pro Saves information on files while ripping CD
While ripping a CD onto the computer, it easily saves the information for the songs, while storing on the media player.
Pro Beautiful music visualization
Windows Media Player comes with their own built-in music visualization. In addition to this, users can install their own visualizations which are downloaded from the internet.
Pro Native
It is written in Qt so it requires less resources than a web browser or an electron application.
Pro AppImage
It is available as AppImage so you can easily try it.
Cons
Con No longer able to play DVDs
The older versions can play DVDs, while the latest version can't play, but only able to play VCDs.
Con Sluggish
Con Large cluttered interface
It's hard to find needed options.
Con No longer being updated
Windows Media Player is no longer updated to new versions since the release of Windows 7. The latest version of Windows Media Player is Windows Media Player 12 (released in July 2009); it is still bundled in Windows 8 and above.
Con QML
It written in Qt-QML which ignores all Human Interface Guidelines and make the app look like a web page.
Con Not native
It's using qt5-webengine which is not much different from electron / a webbrowser.
