Back in November last year, Microsoft has begun rolling out a new Media Player app for Windows 11. Media Player with fluent design, rounded corners, and other aesthetics only available to Windows insiders running Dev channel then. Today, Microsoft has pushed an update to the Groove app to make it available to Windows 11 users running build 22000.
Media Player UI matches that of Windows 11 look and feels and it displays and plays local media content on your device.
In case you don’t know, Microsoft has replaced Groove App in Windows 11 with the Media Player.
Do we need another Video Player in Windows 11 with Movies & TV and Windows Media Player already available? Microsoft thought so.
Windows 11 Media Player comes with orange accent color forced
The app comes with light and dark themes and supports using system themes in Windows personalization settings.
You can change the Media Player theme by choosing an option under the App theme of Personalisation in Settings.
When the app was first available, the orange accent color has been forced on UI.
You can notice this on the album page, artist page, playlist and Play queue, Video player, and Settings page as well.
Those who don’t like the Media Player accent color didn’t have the option to change to make Media Player use Windows 11 Accent color whichever set by users.
The latest update released in January 2022, addresses this.
Media Player now contains a dedicated setting to toggle between App default color scheme and Windows 11 accent color.
Change Windows 11 Media Player accent color
- Press start, search for Media Player, and launch it from the best result displayed on top
- Click on Settings
- Visit Personalisation
- Click on the down arrow for Accent Colour
- Select “Use System Setting” in place of “Zest (default colour Scheme)”
That disables the orange or Zest color scheme in the Media Player app and uses accent color that was set by the user in Windows 11 personalization Settings.
Despite App being available in Windows 11 build 20000, as the title says it is still in Preview.
To get the App,
- launch Microsoft Store
- Search for Groove and Update it.
The latest verison available now at the time of writing is 11.2111.54.0.
Windows Media Player is available and isn’t going away, at least for now. You can find it under windows Tools.
So Windows 11 now have these Apps available to play video and audio.
- Windows Media Player
- Movies& TV or Films&TV
- New Media Player.
Do you use VLC Player or other third-party app or built-in Video Players in Windows 11? Let us know in the comments below.
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