Microsoft said the subscription services will be available to users of older operating systems. Only PressPlay is featured in the beta, but Microsoft expects to add more in the shipping version. Media Player 9 supports music subscription services, so users can seamlessly buy music online. And while Media Player 9 will play MP3 files, users still need to purchase a third-party encoder/decoder to download MP3 files or burn MP3 CDs. Non-Windows XP versions will be able to use the integrated CD-burning functions, although with fewer features, according to Microsoft. Microsoft added CD burning from within the player, as well as the ability to burn Windows Media Audio files for playing in devices that support Media Audio, including some of the newer DVD players and car stereos. The minimum configuration to run Media Player 9 with earlier versions of Windows is a 233-MHz Pentium PC with at least 64MB of RAM, 30MB of available hard-disk space, a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive, a sound card and speakers or headphones.Īmong the Media Player features that live only on Windows XP systems are support for five- to eight-channel surround sound, so-called lossless audio playback that retains all original CD quality and playback of 20-bit high-definition CDs. Microsoft isn't giving details about some of the Media Player 9 features that are accessible only with XP. "Microsoft and Intel have to drive audio and video into the computing experience" in order to persuade users to buy new, faster PCs and Windows XP, said Steve Vonder Haar, an analyst at market research and consulting firm Interactive Media Strategies.
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