media management

  1. Mastering the Microsoft Photos App: Organize, Edit, and Share Your Media

    In today's digital age, managing the abundance of photos and videos we accumulate can be overwhelming. Thankfully, Microsoft has empowered Windows users with the Photos app, an intuitive tool designed to help you view, organize, edit, and share your precious media. As of October 2022, with the...
  2. Introducing Intelligent Media Search in Windows 11: AI-Driven Transcription and Privacy Concerns

    Recently, Microsoft revealed the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27695, specifically in the Canary Channel for those testing early versions of the operating system. A notable feature mentioned in this update is "Intelligent Media Search." This function is set to harness artificial intelligence...
  3. Revolutionizing Media Search: Windows 11's Upcoming AI Feature Explained

    Microsoft appears to be taking bold steps towards integrating artificial intelligence into its operating systems, particularly with the rumored feature boosting Windows 11's functionality. Recent discoveries from Windows Insider Preview Build hint at a potential feature dubbed "intelligent media...
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    Windows 10 Renaming video file properties according to file name

    Hi and thanks for looking at my post. I have no experience whatsoever about automating tasks in Windows but I have a huge task at hand currently and so I feel automating it is the only solution. Here is what I am trying to do: I have a huge collection of movie files on my NAS (Z:\Movies). Each...
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    Windows 10 DVD Covers

    Why have my Dvd covers returned to a lower size . I use RonyaSoft CD DVD Label Maker to make them in the dvd format , they usualy end up about 4mb for the fronts and 700 kb for the labels . I tried to print some for a niece and some have gone back to 200 kbs for the fronts . The labels are a...
  6. Windows 10 Contana can't find my music, Again!

    Hi I've had this problem several times before, and never figured out how to correct it. When I installed the Anniversary Update it started working again, the way it's supposed to. Now when I ask Cortana to play my music, she says, "Sorry I can't seem to find any music locally or in your...
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    Windows 10 How to change "date created" on a .MP4 file?

    Hey guys, I've got an .MP4 video file that's 30seconds long. It says it was created in 2013 even though I've tried copying it and even converting it from .MP4 to .AVI and .MOV. I want it to say it was created in 2016... Does anyone know what I can do? Thanks!
  8. Windows 7 Adjust timing of displayed video thumbnails?

    Greeting, all - When you have some videos in a folder and have the 'View' mode set to 'Large Icons', it shows a thumbnail preview about 5 seconds into the vid. Normally, this is fine when it comes to jogging your memory of what the vid is, but I've just gotten hold of some historical...
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    Windows 10 dvd/cd formatting

    cannot find dvd/cd formatting in windows 10 does it do it
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    Windows 8 Media Browser Windows 8

    Hello everyone, it is my first post here, my sentence may sound weird. I'm looking for a Media Browser for my Movies/tvShows, I have a lot of movies and tvshows and simply use the explorer to go through my files, but i like clean/good looking stuff. I imported picture of the show/movie in my...
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    Windows 7 any tweak for determining which album art appears in WMC waterfall?

    Hi, I love Windows Media Center, I use it everyday. I have religiously tagged all my ALBUMS to be as I want them. When I play them, I get that lovely background of all my album arts slowly tracking downwards as the waterfall wallpaper. BACKGROUND: The other day, I decided to add all my...
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    Windows 8 AutoPlay

    There is an app here that, when opened, causes all AutoPlay optical media settings to revert to "Take No Action." Is there an AutoPlay setting that can thwart this, in the same manner that a file can be set to READ ONLY?
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    Windows 7 Cannot change title of video file

    Hello there. I'm just posting here because there are these video files which the title of the file is different to the 'name' of the file which appears below the icon. Although not the end of the world, it is annoying since when I put the files on my external HDD to play through my PS3 and that...
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    Windows 7 Format options greyed out in Windows 7 ultimate DVD/CD-RW drive!!

    Hi.. I've been trying to format a RW cd throught the usual right click format option in my DVD/CD- RW (E): drive but I notice both format options (quick format & create and MS-DOS startup disk)are greyed out _unlike what used to be accessable in my previous WinXP OS. the command dose run for...
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    Windows 7 Ford Sync/Win 7 & Fat32 drive question

    I have a new Ford that has the Ford Sync. I've had trouble finding something to work with Ford Sync from all kinds of usb thumbdrives, to Zune, to portable usb drive. I want it to show the artist/song title on the screen and be able to use voice commands to play songs/artists, etc. The only...
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    Windows 7 How do you open music in different media player?

    As the title says how do you open music is a different media player? When I have a couple of songs I want to play selected I use to (before I upgraded) right click and either selected play with [blah] or open with... and select my media player. How do you do that is 7? That option is not...
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    Windows 7 Windows Slideshow Problems/Questions

    Hello, I have two Windows 7 HP questions. 1. I have a folder with a bunch of subfolders inside that are full of pictures that I had ported over, sitting in my documents. I want to use the slideshow feature in the taskbar (like in "Pictures') in these folders, but it doesn't show up. Is there...
  18. Windows 7 Music library not displaying album art

    So I just went through all my MP3s with Mp3Tag to embed album art into them, but its still not displaying correctly. In Artist view some show album art and some don't, some show a stack of albums when there's only one album for that artist, some show the same album art more than once in a stack...
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    Windows 7 Having problems with mp3 tags in Windows 7 media player 12

    Previously I was using Windows media player 11 on windows XP. I edited many of the mp3 tags from windows media player 11, advance tag editor. Recently I upgraded to Windows 7. Now windows 7 or wmp12 does not show tags only which were edited from wmp11 and it is able to show tags which were...
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    Windows 7 Windows Media Player 12 Library problems, loading, duplicates

    System: ASPIRE 5740-6378 laptop Intel Core i5 430m (2.26 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) Intel HD GPU 4 GB Memory 320 GB Hard Drive OS: Windows 7 64bit Problem 1 – Music Library reload Description: Sometimes when wmp12 opens and I access the music library it will say there is nothing there until it...