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Screenshot of Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset, one of the components of this software suite. Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT), formerly Emergency Repair Disk Commander (ERD Commander), is a set of tools that helps diagnose an offline copy of Microsoft Windows. It comes on a bootable disc and is run during computer ...
WinPlay3 was the first real-time MP3 audio player for PCs running Windows, [2] [3] [4] both 16-bit (Windows 3.1) and 32-bit (Windows 95). Prior to this, audio compressed with MP3 had to be decompressed prior to listening. It was released by Fraunhofer IIS ("Institute for Integrated Circuits"), [5] creators of the MP3 format, on September 9 ...
Only audio content were ever offered by PlaysForSure content providers; although Microsoft provided a PlaysForSure certification for video content, as well as a variety of PlaysForSure-certified portable and network video players that could play PlaysForSure-certified video, if it were offered, no online store offered video content that would be certified to play on all PlaysForSure video players.
Zune music and devices were follow-on to Microsoft's MSN Music service. MSN Music was created in 2004 to compete with Apple's iTunes services and used the Microsoft PlaysForSure DRM protocol. After only two years, Microsoft announced the closing of MSN Music in 2006 [5] immediately before announcing the Zune service without PlaysForSure support ...
Zune is a discontinued software program that was developed by Microsoft for Windows [1] that functions as a full media player, library, media streaming server, [2] mobile device management, and interface for the discontinued Zune Marketplace.
Sonique is an audio player for Microsoft Windows. Released as freeware, Sonique is capable of handling MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Windows Media Audio (WMA), and audio CDs. Sonique was in development until 2002. It was one of the most popular desktop audio players, second only to Winamp.
RealPlayer, formerly RealAudio Player, RealOne Player and RealPlayer G2, is a cross-platform media player app, developed by RealNetworks.The media player is compatible with numerous container file formats of the multimedia realm, including MP3, MP4, QuickTime File Format, Windows Media format, and the proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats. [7]
Groove Music (formerly Xbox Music and Zune Marketplace) is a discontinued audio player software application included with Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11. The app is also associated with a now-discontinued music streaming service, Groove Music Pass , which was supported across Windows, Xbox video game consoles , Windows Phone ...