Is Your Audio Playback Up To Date?

What version of Windows Media Player do you have installed on your computer?
Take a look.
Windows Media Player is found (if you don’t have a shortcut icon) under Accessories Entertainment.
Run it, and select from the menu (you may have to right-click to get it): Help About Microsoft Media Player
If it is not at least version 9, my advice is to go ahead an update it.
Microsoft’s download URL is:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b446ae53-3759-40cf-80d5-cde4bbe07999&displaylang=en
That will get you up to version 10. Version 11 is available as a beta, if you’re the adventurous type.
Why does this matter? Because multimedia is becoming the norm, and many Web sites, station streaming audio and other programs “use” WMP to present that multimedia.
Even my own music research software uses WMP if you enable audio playback of the tested song hooks. Yesterday, a client with an older version (6) of WMP installed could not run MusicVISTA. We upgraded, and everything was fine.
Plus, version 10 (and 11) are much better.