In the later 1990's I first started recording my music collection to the MP3 format as I felt this emerging technology was going to change the way we listen to music. At that time I was using Linux for an operating system and I developed several audio players for that platform in C++. When I transitioned to Windows XP and the Vis .NET compiler in 2004 I discovered that there was a media player included with the compiler called the axmediaplayer. This is not really a stand alone player as it uses the support files for the media player installed on the operating system but the library did provide a simple way to write source code to play all types of sound and video files. I have now written countless pieces of software utilizing this software.