| billweb |
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| Wed Jan 24 2007 03:07 PM |
Stop Windows Media Player rearranging my music folders
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How do I stop Windows Media Player rearranging my music files and folders? I'd like WMP to show my music files as they are arranged in My Music folder whether they have the correct file name or not or if they are in the correct album/folder or not.
Cheers.
Bill.
| TCN |
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| Sat Jan 27 2007 04:03 PM |
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Re: Stop Windows Media Player rearranging my music folders
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Hi Billweb
Have a look here at the links for powertoys. I had a read through the M$ blurb and it seems as though you should be able to set your playlists as you want them.
| billweb |
| (new user) |
| Sun Jan 28 2007 08:33 AM |
Re: Stop Windows Media Player rearranging my music folders
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Thanks TCN,
I've had a look at PowerToys for Windows Media Player for Windows XP and found this:
PowerToys Skin
The PowerToys skin enables you to manage the Media Library in Windows Media Player in a variety of ways. The skin includes seven playlist management functions.
Function:Turn all albums in the library into playlists
Description:Creates a playlist for every album in Media Library.
Function:Make a playlist for every artist listed in the library
Description:Creates a playlist for every artist in Media Library.
Will this arrange my albums/folders just as they are in My Music folder?
I'd like to make sure before I install PowerToys for Windows Media Player and set it to the above functions. When Windows Media Player rearranged all my music files, I deleted a lot of stuff because many of the folders only had one or two files in them and I didn't know where they came from.
Cheers.
Bill.
| TCN |
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| Sun Jan 28 2007 02:58 PM |
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Re: Stop Windows Media Player rearranging my music folders
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Hi Bill
Quote:from M$ website.
Media Library Management Wizard
Media Library Management Wizard is a useful PowerToy designed to help you organize and manage your music files and to add track numbering, missing album art, and media information to music files copied to your computer using Windows Media Player 7 or later.
Notes The Media Library Management Wizard is not compatible with Windows Media Player 9 Series, which offers enhanced media library management features including the functionality included in this PowerToy.
You should close Windows Media Player before running the Media Library Management Wizard.
As I understand it, you can use the library management wizard to arrange your music on WMP any way you want. If you want it to reflect the sequence that you have in your "My Music" folder then you will have to use the wizard to set this up in WMP.
WMP shouldn't be rearranging the files you have stored on your hard drive. It simply looks to find where you have MP3,WMA etc files stored and points to them. When it's open, select a track and right click on it and select "properties" and it displays the path and location of that track.