Owning a powerful piece of machinery is not enough when you want to listen to your favorite songs at the best quality ever.

This is why you need a strong media player, capable of supporting most known audio formats while delivering the perfect sound quality.

While media players are still far from perfect, there a few good ones that you will find to be appealing. Such as Windows Media Player.

Most computer users automatically dismiss freeware from Windows because... if it's already there, it must be bad! That's not entirely true, especially when it comes to Windows Media Player.

This software is able to provide you with high quality sound and image for your audio and video files. In addition, it can sync with over 75 portable devices (in the words of Microsoft).

You can rip songs to MP3 (without having to use plugins, as in previous versions), and the media player will import settings and playlist information from previous versions as soon as you install it.

In matter of CPU resources, Windows Media Player is very reasonable, and you won't encounter crashing or jamming issues (at least, we didn't).

The only bad thing about it is that it only runs on Windows XP, so newer versions can't support it. It's a shame really, this media player from Windows was actually stable.

So, if you're still running on a Windows XP, then you have got to use its media player.