As with many other types of file , at the moment multimedia content is something of the most common on any Windows computer. Elements of the importance of music, video, photo files, etc. come into play here.
All these types of files, as many of you already know, are more than common in most current computers . For both professional and domestic use, audio, video or image files are the order of the day. To work with all of them, we have at our disposal a good number of programs that will help us. Whether to reproduce, convert, edit or manage these, we can choose from a wide range of software products.
We have them both paid and free, and in the same way there are them for a single task or content, or for all of it. To a large extent everything will depend on how much we want to complicate ourselves, or on the needs of each case. For example, in these lines we are going to focus on video and music content , types that continue to grow in popularity and use. In fact, the Windows system itself has for a long time presented its own solution for playing them for a long time, the mythical Windows Media Player.
However, the truth is that its acceptance at this time is quite low. On the contrary, we find other much more successful third-party proposals such as Kodi or VLC , among others. Therefore, here we propose what you miss in the aforementioned Microsoft program to use it instead of one of the other two, for example.
Support for using external add-ons
If there is something that characterizes the aforementioned Kodi, it is the support for third-party external add-ons. These greatly increase the functionality of the program, something that many are sure to miss in other managers and players such as Windows Media Player. These also refer both to sections related to the operation, offline and online, as well as to the external aspect of the application.
Increased privacy by default
One of the biggest complaints that many users have about Windows 10 , is everything related to privacy and telemetry. Well, something similar happens to us when we talk about Windows Media. This is a program that if we don’t configure it correctly, it also sends usage reports to Microsoft itself.
And when it comes to your own videos and photos, for example, most users don’t like this too much and should be completely removed.
A more up-to-date user interface
As we mentioned before, this is a program that has been around for a long time in Windows, however its user interface has not evolved much. That is why many users demand that the Redmond player be updated a bit, as it happens with the UWP Movies & TV or Photos aspect of applications.
Greater compatibility with the latest formats
In addition, programs like Kodi or VLC do not stop updating to improve their compatibility with all types of multimedia file formats. And this is a market that does not stop growing in this same sense, something that we may miss a lot in this integrated Microsoft proposal.
