Microsoft Plus! is an extra or addon pack for windows XP. It contains a lot of features or programs.
All programs are grouped under names:
1) Digital Media
2) Games
3) Themes
4) ScreenSavers
1) Digital Media includes:
"Plus! voice command for windows media player". As the name indicate, it improves accessibility of windows media player by including voice recognition.
"Plus mp3 audio converter"can be used to convert MP3 and WAV files to WMA. WMA format claims to have double the quality of MP3, that is.,
WMA with 64 kbps has the same quality of MP3 with128 kbps bitrate!
Well, after conversion, the quality seems pretty same to me. The only difference is that some songs with large variation in audio pitch may not sound exactly the same. But the compression quality is great. I have all my MP3 converted to WMA and saves GBs of disk space. Conversion speed is fair.
"Plus CD Label maker" is a small graphic editing application used to create CD Labels, just like Nero CD label maker but with less features.
"Plus speaker enhancement" helps in audio enhancement according to different speakers. If your speaker is listed in the "speaker profiles" list, you can get good audio output. But many speakers are not supported/listed.
"Plus! windows media player skins" provide a good selection of skins for Windows Media Player.
"Plus! 3D Visualizations" include many visualizations for Windows Media Player. But the skins and plugins slow down / crash Media Player often and is a problem that needs consideration. Only install plugins you really need. more
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