Windows Media Player for Mac 9.0

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License:: Free
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Downloads:: 708,688
Requirements:: Mac OS X
Limitations:: No limitations
Date Added:: November 07, 2003

Publisher's description of Windows Media Player for Mac

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From Microsoft: Introducing Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X. Sporting a new brushed steel skin for Apple's newest operating system, this new version of our player opens the world of Windows Media 9 content to Macintosh users, enabling them to access the best audio and video on the Web. New plug-in support added for Internet Explorer, Netscape and Safari enables playback of Windows Media files right from the browser.

See more CNET content tagged:: Windows Media,; Apple Macintosh,; media player,; Apple Mac OS,; Microsoft Windows

Editor's review of Windows Media Player for Mac

While you may need a player for Windows Media, this is probably not the program you want. It features a brushed metal Aqua interface and complies only with older Windows Media files (this app was released in 2003), but the video quality is not what Mac people are used to. When you move the playback window, quality degrades. What's worse, this free program wants an administrator password when you install it. Although Windows Media files are smaller than some popular alternatives, this particular player is strictly for those who have no other option. VLC Media Player is a much better choice.

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Pretty crappy & pointless

by: PCCRomeo on 22-Oct-2006 06:48:48 AM

Pros: It matches the native Mac interface...

Cons: ALL it does is play Windows Media and that's it. No AVI, MPEG, MP3, NOTHING. I don't even think it plays those files in Safari or any other web browsers either. It's quite a waste.

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Windows Media Player for Mac

Classic

by: zali04 on 06-Nov-2007 08:41:21 AM

Pros: download WMP 11from
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Cons: NOT BAD AT ALL

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i cant get it to play videos on the msn site or yahoo??

by: digitallysick on 22-Aug-2005 09:15:53 PM

Pros: its free, i guess, i see no pros

Cons: i download and installed it, went to yahoo and it will not play any videos, on the msn site it says i dont meet system requirements, maybe its because of firefox?? who knows, but i hate it

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What is Popular must not be good!

by: macjoos on 21-Nov-2006 02:25:03 AM

Pros: Very popular.

Cons: Not too much features.
Control.
Stream connections.
Design.

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Most definitely a turd- DO NOT USE THIS SPYWARE

by: kittykittybangbang on 29-Jul-2005 01:30:10 PM

Pros: The ability to read this before you make the mistake of downloading this POS hacklipcation

Cons: Though it may have (NO) useful functions, this product is unstable, riddled with spyware, or otherwise difficult to use. Download at your own risk. Gates and his henchmen are showing us their opinion of cross-platform based graphics interface. The know their company is going down due to open source and they release a barely-legal hack that does nothing but scans your harddrive, overrides the OS and retrieves personal date. Use VLC for .avi or .wmp if you even find a use for these stupid files. If it's not mpeg-encoded, its crap anyway. Beware of Microsoft's appications and business practices, they would be illegal if politicians weren't so suspiciously sympathetic. Hmmmm....

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