Microsoft has constructed a brand new media playback app for Windows 11 to supplant each Windows Media Player, which hasn’t actually modified since 2009, and the Groove Music app. Windows Insiders can start testing the creatively named Media Player for Windows 11 now.

The app is designed for each music and video playback. If you have been clinging onto the Groove Music app to handle your library of tracks, even after Microsoft axed Groove Music companies in 2017, you can replace it to the brand new Media Player. Your library and playlists will robotically migrate over, as Gizmodo notes.

Microsoft says customers will be capable of rapidly browse their library to search out what they wish to take heed to, and create and handle playlists. During playback, you may see album artwork and “rich artist imagery” in each full display screen and mini-player modes. The app will add recordsdata out of your PC’s music and video folders too. Through the settings, customers can inform Media Player the place else to search for issues to deliver to the library.

There are accessibility-focused choices within the app too. Microsoft says these embody “improved keyboard shortcut and access key support for keyboard users and with other assistive technologies.”

Media Player at the moment has a few points, Microsoft notes, together with ones that have an effect on playback from some community places, enhancing album metadata and library content material with accented characters. You’ll nonetheless be capable of entry the previous model of Windows Media Player by Windows Tools.

Of course, the Media Player design displays the clear aesthetic of Windows 11. The app seems to be good and it is the cherry on prime of an extended, long-awaited overhaul of Windows Media Player. It’s a little bit of a disgrace that Microsoft selected such a boring identify for the brand new app, however at the very least customers should not be confused about what it does.