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In IE, Firefox etc, when a user clicks on a playlist file which the server requires the browser to download (eg: m3u, pls etc), the browser downloads it but nothing happens. I have checked in both the control panel and IE itself that the correct MIME type and file handler (VLC but have tried...

I recently had to restore a windows 7 computer. When I restored my media files, they were already formatted to windows 10. Now the windows 7 computer won't read any of the playlists. As much as I've tried, I can't find a way to get the playlists to work again in the older format. Any ideas how...

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Hi, I've recently encountered a problem in windows media player on a windows 10 machine that I can't figure out the reason or solution for. Simply put, any playlist that is renamed will revert to it's original name after about 3 hours. This happens regardless of whether it is renamed in media...

Hi I'm still messing around with trying to get Cortana to play my music. I think it's like the map location thing, she doesn't get the info from Windows 10 about where the music is. So I started all over. I removed everything from my default music folder, except my iTunes folder. I created a...

Background audio in a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app is a powerful way to provide a more seamless audio experience to your users. This post will walk you through setting up background audio, reacting to device media controls, communicating with the background media player, and managing...

Hi I don't have a lot of expectation that anyone is going to be able to help with this but I've exhausted my research and thought I'd give it a try here. While Cortana has had a lot of issues, the one thing that it did do for me during beta was play my music. Since I installed the final...

Hi Before I updated to the final version of Cortana I could get her to play my music by saying, "Hey Cortana, Play my music.". Now she responds saying Sure thing playing your music. Then she says, "Something's not right, try again in a little bit". I've removed all my playlists, cleaned...

Hi This is one of the things about Windows 10 and Cortana in particular that drives me crazy. I've been using Cortana to play my music since she first showed up in Windows 10 Starting yesterday, when I say "Hey Cortana, Play my music." she says "Sure thing, shuffling your music." Then there is...

I'm new to windows, and i just built a computer that runs windows 8.1. I set up my computer to work as a dlna media server and ive put some photos in windows media player and im 100% positive that there on the dlna server. But when i go to my xbox and click the server, all the folders show up...

Hi That's my question, I have a Cortana playlist. I've been trying to put music in it for weeks, everything I do fails. Somehow some music I downloaded from Itunes ended up in the playlist, but I don't know how. I want to add more music to the list, but everytime I do it want's me to save...

Hi I'm about to start yelling. How can people who create software for a living be so oblivious to how things should work? I've just spent about an hour trying to figure out how to get my playlist into Windows Media Player. Here you can see my playlist, and on the other side WMD. Link Removed...

All Media Players Skip All Songs/Vids In a Playlist I have an Alienware/Dell PC x51r2 . I was using Win8, and am now using Win7. This has happened in both versions of Windows, in all of my players (classic, vlc). The only exception was Winamp, which did not skip audio but would not play vidya...

Hi I've been playing with Cortana today. Pretty neat, I set up a playlist with 175 pieces of music, a mixture of styles from Pop, Rock, Folk, and Broadway, with everyone from Barbara Streisand to Steeleye Span, Bruce Springsteen, and Joan Baez. Now all I have to do is say "Hey Cortana play my...

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...

Since we last highlighted this project in December 2013, Xbox Music API, it's been pretty quite. Until now. The week before last the Xbox Music team jump started the Xbox Music API with a number of new features, capabilities and samples. Link Removed - Link Removed Welcome to the new Xbox...

For a long time, I had a playlist of videos on youtube, but in the last few weeks, it's said that the videos were blocked in my country. Weird that they were blocked all of a sudden. Is there any way to get them to play ?

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...

Years back, there was this great computer program called Music Match Juke Box. It could rip CDs, name the files according to a selected protocol, play your pmusic as aserial playlist or random assortment and it could burn Audio CDs and WMA or MP3 CDs with voulme leveling. I bought a copy with...