music library

  1. What is the best way to update my music files to an external hard drive?

    I have a Windows 10 desktop computer and a Seagate 1 TB external hard drive, and I would like to know: What is the best and easiest way to update my music files onto the external hard drive? I often add new music files to my computer and sometimes delete music files that I don't really listen...
  2. Windows 10 File Explorer: Removing my unwanted Quick Access Music folders

    For some reason, the Quick Access list of folders in File Explorer recently included an elastic list of folders from my Music library. If I remove one, it adds the next one in the alphabet. How do I remove all these Music folders from Explorer?
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    Windows 11 Replace characters in a file name with other characters

    I have a large library of music file names (mp3 files) that I need to change to conform to certain criteria. 1. I need to append the two digits "00" to the beginning of certain filenames that do not have a track number 2. I need to replace the two characters "(a space)-", that may appear...
  4. New Media Player for Windows 11 begins rolling out to Windows Insiders

    Hello Windows Insiders, today we are beginning to roll out the new Media Player for Windows 11 to all Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. We designed the new Media Player to make listening to and watching your multimedia content more enjoyable on Windows 11, and we’re really excited to...
  5. Windows 10 need help with groove music

    when i right click on an album in groove music theres no option to edit the album, any way to edit?
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    Windows 7 USB External Hard Drive will not eject

    I am expereincing a problem I am not sure it's a Windows issue or I Tunes. I store my Tunes Library on a seperate External Hard Drive as the file size is quite big 1786 Song Tracks. When I have finished using I Tunes to play any music and shut I Tunes down my Exteranl hard Drive will not close...
  7. Microsoft to bring Spotify to Groove Music Pass customers

    With the continued advancement of music streaming today, all the world’s music has become easily accessible across a variety of devices, unlocking new ways to discover and experience music. As we continue to listen to what our customers want in their music experience we know that access to the...
  8. Windows 7 Windows Movie Maker temp and Libraries locations.

    Hey, couple of quick questions here. So, I have my Windows installed on C drive, as well as a few other things, and I don't install other things there because it is quite full, only half a gig space left. I was recently using WMM and it gave me messages that C drive was almost out of space, and...
  9. Windows 7 iTunes: all items are now "could not be used ... original file could not be found"

    Running iTunes 12.4.2 under Win7 SP1. Recently, something happened so that selecting any song gives me "The song ... could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" The location attempt inevitably gets me nowhere. Can I recover from this...
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    Media player moving music library?

    Hi all, I did a few searches on this but couldn't find anything that matched these symptoms. Someone I know has a problem in windows media player on windows 10, where the tracks in the library view have apparently been re-organised in a seemingly random way. For example, going into a particular...
  11. iHeartRadio’s Live and Custom Radio Stations Now Available Alongside Your Personal Music...

    Today, we are excited to share that you can now access iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia’s all-in-one streaming music and live digital radio service, from within the Groove music app on Windows 10. This means you can jumpstart the iHeartRadio experience from right inside your music library to listen to...
  12. Windows 7 new install

    I am installing Windows 7 Home Premium on a 1 TB hard drive. It currently has Windows 7 Ultimate, but apparently it's not genuine so I have to do a new installation. My question is how do I move my music library (Windows Media Player and iTunes) and virtual-box to my external? I apologize if...
  13. Windows 8 [WMP] Album art interchnages between albums

    Link Removed Link Removed So some of my library albums didnt have album art or they have an wrong or low quality one. Ive folowed the official instructions on how to add /chnage custom album art (that copy and paste job from your pc or internet pictures). It went well for most of the parts...
  14. Windows 8 Nothing in music app collection

    In my music app there 's no music, i 've added folders with music in the music library folder but nothing! It used to be okay i think! Its frustrating to have this app and no music in it to choose! Does it have anything to do with Network & sharing?
  15. Windows 7 MP3 Meta-Data Is In File, But Not Showing up

    Hi I am having an issue I use Windows 7 and I use WMP to listen to my music. Recently I noticed that sometimes when I download music in a Zip Drive or just a straight File Download that the Album, Artist, Year, All Meta-Data appears to be missing. If I add it to my library in WMP, I can edit...
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    Windows 7 Trying to consolidate media and make a server

    So I have a laptop with my entire music library on it, and a desktop with part of my music library on it. My ipod is synced to my laptop, but what I've found lately is I'll hear a song on my desktop, either add it to a list to download to my laptop later, or download it and use one of many...
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    Media Players

    I can't not for the life of me find a media player that can manage my library with out it crashing or freezing up on me. The current way im doing things is through an explorer window and winamp. I don't like winamps interface, but i want something similar to use the explorer window. I've tried...
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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 7 Thousands of files in "Music" Library - Windows 7 Pro

    One of the four basic Libraries is Music. I found thousands (yes!) files in that Library, most of them I have no idea about and have absolutely nothing to do with music. Windows said they are references and deleting them will not remove the actual file from the PC. I found that incorrect, I...
  20. Windows 7 Media Player is not importing the entire library

    This happens every time I format and reinstall Windows. Media Player only imports a portion of my music library. I can't remember how I've solved this problem before.