Microsoft released the first test version of its new Windows Media Player software Wednesday, marking a significant upgrade aimed squarely at the burgeoning portable device market. As previously ...

This new generation of media players essentially serves as a way to wirelessly receive digital files from a host PC in one part of the home to, say, an LCD TV or sound system in another part, ...

VLC Media Player has long been the go-to alternative for Windows Media Player on PCs. In fact, it used to be one of the first few apps I installed as soon as I set up a new computer. Over time, though ...

The iconic Winamp media player has fulfilled a promise made in May and released its complete source code on GitHub, inviting developers to collaborate on the project. Winamp is a media player launched ...

Over the past couple of years, I’ve started to fully embrace having a digital media collection. While I’ve always appreciated ...

VideoLan has released VLC Media Player 3.0.14 to fix an issue affecting Window users and causing the software's auto-updater not to launch the new version's installer automatically. "VLC users on ...

Microsoft has had a strange relationship with local video playback for the past several years. It’s one of those features that was caught in the purgatory that was created with the start of Windows 10 ...

Microsoft has released a patch intended to plug security holes in its Windows Media Player software that could allow an attacker to run malicious code and access computer files on a user's PC. The ...

Some people looking to uninstall the latest test version of Microsoft's new Windows Media Player 9 Series software may find the program is like a bad houseguest: It just won't leave. Microsoft's ...

Users are being advised to disable a certain type of file in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Media Player software following the discovery of a new security hole in the software. The flaw, which affects ...