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Using a media player on your computer is a great way to listen to music or watch videos.
Windows media player comes included in the Windows operating system. It is for this reason that it seems to be the most popular. It is very easy to use and will support many types of files. You can use Windows media player to watch videos, listen to music and you can even burn your favorite music to a disc.
Winamp is a very popular media player. It is free to download and comes with many features. You can use it to watch videos, listen to music, stream live feeds through it and customize the way it looks. It is able to support many file types with over 55 types supported.
Real player is a highly interactive form of media player. You can access listings of movies that you can pay for, similar to the format of iTunes. There are also movies which are free to download. The listings also include music videos. As with the other media players it supports many different file types.
Quicktime is the media player used by Apple. It plays practically all file types, even if there are multiple types within the one file. It is considered to be at the forefront of media player technology.
VLC media player is popular amongst those in the know. It is not as popular as the other players listed above however the more technological inclined tend to prefer this one. It is useful to have if you cannot run a file on your standard media player as it seems to play anything.
