It also seems to integrate with the Photos app, but we’ll have to get our hands on the new player to see how that works. We noticed a new feature that lets you change the track or shuffle a media playlist, which was missing from previous Windows player apps. Speaking of features, we only saw a quick glimpse of what it brings to the table.
It’s been far too long since Microsoft updated either of its media playing applications, so whatever this ends up being called, it’s nice to see the company finally putting in some work and making a more feature-packed media app. Of course, if Microsoft decides to phase out both Windows Media Player and Movies & TV, it could condense the apps down into an app called “Media Player.” Most likely, the “Media Player” name is just a placeholder, and it’ll retain the name of whichever app it’s replacing. At this point, we can only speculate what Microsoft will do with the new Media Player app.