Windows Media Player is as old as the '90s but no one uses it anymore.
It is best compared to Lemons: everyone knows about 'em, yet no one likes them unironically.

Windows Media Player has been nuked from updates making it slow, hog up RAM, and it cannot play modern formats.
However Microsoft thought it would be better to not only keep WMP but also introduce 2 separate apps rather than just updating Windows Media Player to no suck complete ass.

If someone is using WMP then they are either on a nostalgia trip or are suffering from severe brain damage.
Why not just use VLC or MPC-HC?
Person 1: I use Windows Media Player!
Person 2: Legit shut up.
by LegendaryCadncieJoe June 15, 2023
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Worthless music player because of its useless library (iTunes is better) and crappy sound quality (musicmatch jukebox is better. Uttely worthless media guide (Realone is better). Only good for watching porn, and you can do that on Real or WinDVD. It's the prettiest media player
WMP sucks, but on the bright side...it has um.....pretty skins and visualizers.... oh! It burns pretty well too...thats pretty much it.
by ManoftheDiaspora July 28, 2005
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Pretty good program, considering its made by microsoft. Although its really bad about slowing my computer down (it is an HP, which sucks)
Running, Call of Duty, AIM, Norton Antivirus and listening to my Smashing Pumpkins CD on Windows Media Player....computer actully slows down....thank you Windows XP
by IRISHREPUBLICANARMY January 10, 2004
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a cool application to listen to music, Some examples are vlc, windows media player and some other stuff.
i knew vlc media player was better that android music app!
by ptsn March 2, 2023
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