Windows Media Player 12 is obviously only compatible with all windows-based operating systems, and should function at least to the minimum on all operating systems. However, for the full effect from windows media player 12, you’re going to want a computer running the newest and most popular vista operating system, which will increase the overall performance and quality of the windows media player 12 edition.

COLORS

I’m amazed at the fact that you can really easily change the colors in the windows media player 12 preferences area. You just view a color tablets, such as the one on msn or other instant messengers where you can easily change the color of the window, and you just choose whatever color you could ever think of. Your windows media player 12 window will then turn whatever color you have chosen. You will definitely get a much fuller effect of this if you’re running either windows vista home premium or a higher / more expensive version. Of course, it’s not worth buying windows vista home premium or higher just to get the cool windows media player, although it is cool, but it is definitely worth the extra money, and is worth looking up. For extra information on the windows vista operating system, visit the Microsoft website or read one of my product reviews on the windows vista operating system.

ORGANIZATION

The way the songs and album art is arranged in windows media player 12 just blows my mind. I can easily find any song, album, or artist I want out of a group of 2000 songs in just seconds. I love the new rating system as well, you can rate songs on a 1-5 star scale, and then you can view all of your songs at once, strictly by rating, meaning you can play only 5 star songs if you really want to, or you can play only 1 star songs, if you really want to. There are many different customizable organizational features as well, you may choose columns to display song information on, whether or not you want album art displayed, display song time, display song release year, display ratings, display contributing artists, etc. I would recommend to only have artist, song, and rating personally, but some people get a little more into their songs and would like to see a lot of different information at the click of a mouse, or the fact that they don�t even know how to select and choose columns may come into play as well.

COMPARISON

I would definitely recommend windows media player 12 over windows media player 11. 11 is nice, but 12 is way better organized, and looks much cooler, as well as has some awesome audio features. You can easily retrieve songs on 12 as well too, as to where 11 requires a manual retrieval of each individual song, 12 will automatically scan any folder you choose and grab all songs, album art, and any other song information and send it to windows media player 12 play lists and song lists.

ADDITIONAL FEATURES

Not only can you tweak this awesome program by doing things such as changing the color and organization, you can also tweak songs by changing the speed, bass quality, overall sound quality, etc. This all happens under the ‘now playing’ menu, which is very easy to access and understand what exactly it is you’re doing. If you’re interested in messing around with your music quality, but aren’t exactly an expert computer wizard, using windows media player 12 features might just be your way to go.

OVERALL SATISFACTION

Overall, I’m very satisfied with this amazing piece of software. I would recommend downloading it to anyone interested in the best windows media player to date, with some awesome audio features to enhance music, some awesome graphical features to enhance the already awesome appearance, and some awesome organizational features to allow you to find your music in a much faster and convenient manner. Windows media player 12 is by far the best windows media player out there to date because of not only all of these features, but several more, I could just go on and on with the added features, but I’d recommend checking out these other sweet tools on your own time, after downloading from the Microsoft website or buying an operating system which was created by windows.