Have you ever wondered what to do with that dusty old Windows PC sitting in a corner, quietly judging your lack of storage organization? Well, it turns out that you can give it a second life as a powerful streaming server using Plex! Whether you're moving away from traditional cable or simply...
I have digitized some LPs. I am saving them to This PC >C>users>wclif>music in there own folder by artist. I went this way for 2 reasons - I don't want to use OneDrive and when I checked the properties of most of the existing music in Media Player it said it was here.
The problem is that...
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I'm trying to load about 30 CD's on my WMP but every time I open WMP and then put a CD into the disk drive, I automatically get an error notice that WMP won't be able too rip some of the files and then I can't get any further. Any suggestions anyone?
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I have a bit of a unique issue. I have a rather large library of media files of many different types. JPEG, GIFF, MP3, ACC, AVI, MPEG, MP4 ect...
Most of the files have an incorrect extension, or no extension at all. This is entirely my fault as my fix for not enabling...
Okay, I'm not sure of all my tech specs, but I can figure something out if needed. Windows 7 and an arris router.
My situation is this: my pc is in my upstairs bedroom, and I want to watch things in my downstairs living room. I have Wow cable, and my cable box connects to my homegroup, and...
i have a playlist that WMP isn't recognizing in the Playlists window.
if i locate it manually and click on it, it'll start playing it fine, but since it doesn't appear in the Playlists view, i can't edit it.
any ideas (other than deleting and recreating the library)?
I am trying to figure out how to use Windows Media Player. Is there a very limited number of playlists that can be created and synced to an mp3 player? I have figured out how to sync playlists to my Sansa clip mp3 player but it seems like after five or six playlists the oldest playlist drops off...
In windows 8 I am not able to change video file's Rating (starts), I right click a file, the go to properties>Details I see the starts but I can not change them,
I tried to allow all permissions.
What should I do?
I have tried rating in the Windows media player library, but when I rate a...
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Has anyone found an alternative to the default photo viewer in windows 8.1? Or alternatively, how to change the way it sorts my folders. At the moment, all my old folders are showing first and my new folders are showing last which is a pain.
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I have three music playlists appearing in Windows Media Center which I cannot delete. I have been unable to locate any associated files representing those playlists on the drive or entries in the registry. Other 'net articles have indicated I would find the playlists in the ~\Playlists folder...
Hi. I recently purchased a WD Live TV Hub. To my chagrin, I am discovering that in order to use the Media Library option on the hub, I am needing to go into the library in Windows Media Player on my PC and do some serious housecleaning. Currently I use iTunes as a music player on my PC. Any...
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By Paul Thurrott
Oddly, while the Windows 8 Photos app does use the contents of the Pictures library to display local content, it doesn’t work the same way as the Xbox Music and Xbox Video apps when it comes to determining which network-based content can be displayed. Here’s a guide to what...
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I am running windows 7 on a HP Pavillion Elite m9040n PC. My first drive is saying it is full. With all of these folders (my pictures) showing up with pictures in them does that mean I have several duplicates on my hard drive? Are all of these picture icons in the items folders really pictures...
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hello as the title suggests I'm having problems with windows media player on windows 7.
Ive now had 4 fresh installs of 7 since its release (4 too many?) and every time i get the same wmp problem its either wmplayer.exe or the sharing service using 25%.
Ive looked all over the net and no proper...
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I have a very strange problem which I am assuming is some wrong with the Apple Bonjour service. It appears that it only work one way. By this I mean, the Win7 64-bit Ultimate system can be seen by other computers and devices but IT cannot see other computers and devices. Here's...
I got my laptop in October of 2011, and it has WMP12.0 but for some reason ever since I got the laptop I cannot play a full song or movie using Windows Media Player. Whenever I play a song it automatically skips to the next one after a few minutes. I thought maybe the songs were corrupted but it...
When I go to "all videos" in the player there are a bunch of files(video) which I try to delete but nothing happens when I click on delete. They are no good as they won't open up. I am using vlc now. I tried disabling and restarted my computer but the files are still there. How do I clear...
I have a 4th generation iPod Touch and it will sync everything else from my iTunes library except the podcast I have downloaded I have 31 episodes downloaded and they won't sync. On my iPod I tap on Videos and it says
Under devices I click on my iPod Touch and in the podcast section I have a...
WMP is showing music library at opening, but it won't load any album art. It's a bit complicated to explain the problem exactly, so I will post some screenshots that you can get what I'm saying.
1) I open WMP, and at it's set to Library => Musc => All music, but it wont' load any album art. I...
Hello dear Win7 comunity!
Please help me with this problem:
I have about 300+GB music files (mp3, ogg, wav, flac,...) and have k-lite codec 6.9.0 installed. Until some time ago my WMP working just fine and have no problem playing all my music files, but somehow now my WMP can't play mp3...