How to Install the New Media Player on Windows 11 (Any Version)

In this article, I will show you how to install the new Media Player App in Windows 11, on any version. For those of you who don’t know, this is only available on the Dev Channel of the Windows Insider Program, but you will be able to install it on any Windows 11 version, using the method that I will show you in this video.

First of all, you will need to go to this website. Select PackageFamilyName, paste the value below, change to Fast, and then click on the checkmark:

Microsoft.ZuneMusic_8wekyb3d8bbwe

Scroll down to the bottom and download the file with the name Microsoft.ZuneMusic_11.2110.34.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle. If you are using Edge click on it, if you are using Chrome, right-click on it and then click on Save Link As.

Allow the file to Download, if Microsoft doesn’t recognize the publisher.

Also Download 7zip from this link, because we will use it to extract the contents of the Package.

Right-click on the downloaded package, click on Show more options, hover over to 7zip, and click on Extract to…

Go into the extracted folder, scroll to the bottom and locate the package named App_11.2110.34.0_x64.

Right-click on it, click on Show more options, hover over to 7zip, and click on Extract to…

Go into the extracted folder and locate the file named AppxManifest. Right-click on it, click on Show more options, and then click on Edit.

Notepad will open and go to the 11th line. Change the MinVersion value to 10.0.22000.0

Save the file, and from that location also Delete these 4 files:

AppxMetadata
[Content_Types].xml
AppxBlockMap.xml
AppxSignature.p7x

Now you will need to enable the Developer Mode in Windows 11. Open the Settings App in Windows 11, search for developer and turn on Developer Mode and then click on Yes.

Open Powershell as administrator and in Powershell you will need to run 2 commands.

This command will uninstall Groove Music from your Operating System, because the new Media Player App cannot work with Groove Music installed on the system.

Get-AppxPackage *zune* | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers

This command will install the new Media Player App in Windows 11 (make sure to copy your location of the AppxManifest file, by right-clicking on it and then Save as Path):

Add-AppxPackage -Register <location of the file>

You can now open the new Media Player App in Windows 11.

For a more in-depth explanation, you can watch the video below from the youtube channel.