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There are a lot of websites out there dedicated to selling, or even giving away one media playing program or another. Sometimes it’s because a company wants to show off what it can do in order to promote its other software. On other occasions, it’s about making some money for a truly different, sometimes superior type of media player. However, there are so many solutions out there that it seems a trifle redundant to even use these programs.

For one thing, it’s possible to simply download songs off of Youtube as simple MP3s. When you can play an MP3 with a simple, vanilla version of the media playing software that natively comes with every modern operating system, why would you even need to invest the time into downloading an additional program? Consider that sometimes programs of this nature are just attractively packages trojan horses that deliver malicious code into your computer when you install them, and it becomes clear that sometimes using this kind of software just isn’t worth the ultimate problems doing so can cause.

On the other hand, sometimes you want to play one of the rare songs that Youtube or your prepaid cell phones do not have. In a situation like this, you may only find the song on some kind of crazy foreign site, and it becomes more reasonable to download a new type of media player. In addition to that, sometimes the native player just grates on a person’s nerves, as Windows Media Player undoubtedly does to some devout Microsoft-bashers. Ultimately, it can be a very challenging choice, to either use what came with your system or to just download something new.