Applies to: Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone

Microsoft Windows Media Player Mobile for Smartphone is software that lets you play music and videos on your Windows Mobile powered Smartphone.

You can use Windows Media Player Mobile for Smartphone to play digital audio and video files that are stored on your phone or on the Web.

By default, Windows Media Player Mobile can play the following types of files:

• Windows Media Audio (WMA)
• Windows Media Video (WMV)
• Motion Picture Experts Group-2 Audio Layer-3 (MP3)

This includes files with .asf, .wma, .wmv, and .mp3 file name extensions. If the manufacturer of your phone has installed additional components, your version of Windows Media Player Mobile might be capable of playing additional file types.

In this documentation, the version of Windows Media Player for Windows powered desktop or notebook computers is called the desktop Player and the version for Smartphone is called the Smartphone Player.

Listen to Music and Watch Videos

Copy music and video files to your phone

Use the Sync feature in the desktop version of Windows Media Player to synchronize (copy) digital media files from your computer to your phone. Using Sync ensures that protected files and album art are copied to your device correctly.

To synchronize content to your device automatically, do the following: