windows media player

Once upon a time, Windows Media Player was the go-to multimedia hub for millions of users. But, as the tech tide flows, it saw its star dim in the face of competition from feature-rich alternatives like VLC and the rise of streaming services. Now, with the advent of Windows 11, Microsoft has...

In a significant shift aimed at modernizing its software, Microsoft has announced that legacy Digital Rights Management (DRM) services will no longer support playback in Windows Media Player, Silverlight, Windows 7, and Windows 8. This move, detailed on a recently updated support page by...

I have a partner with Dementia who has difficulties using a mouse etc. She like to watch music videos I have downloaded for her. I would like to set up WMP so that: It starts when computer starts A playlist plays automatically Next video plays automatically The videos are full screen when played...

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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...

I listen to my CD's every morning, but have a volume issue. My wife sleeps in the next room, so I have to keep the volume way down. On some of my CD's that means setting the volume at 14 on my PC . On most, it means setting the volume at 2. Not much wiggle room at 2 and even that is too loud...

Since they made the stupid decision to get rid of Movie Maker, I can't combine any videos. I've tried online sites but they won't do some of my videos. I can't use the Photos app, because it doesn't work for me. When I open it, it opens for a couple of seconds but shuts right back off. I've...

I have a number of MP4s which were taken with a cell phone. They have various rotation values. When I view them in various video players (VLC, Windows Media Player, even WinAmp, etc) they all actually play it in different orientations. Obviously they are all treating the rotation metadata...

Aloha ! My Moms has a PC with all here photo's on it. When ever she came back from a holiday, she would put the photo's on the PC, sort them out and then watch them with friends on het Sony TV in the livingroom... You guessed it. This mysteriously stopped working... but not entirely ? The...

Hi guys :), I want to ask you for an advice about my Samsung Galaxy S5 phone. I have a Win 7 PC and it detects my phone automatically when I connect it with the cable. I also have an old Win XP PC with no internet connection that I use only for some old games, my XP PC can't detect my phone...

Hello all, 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? Thanks :)

Now that ms stopped providing metadata support for Windows media player does anyone have any registry hacks to divert to another music database (MusicBrainz)? https://www.ghacks.net/2019/01/27/changes-to-windows-media-center-and-player-metadata-service/

As of this month Microsoft has stopped supporting metadata for Windows media player on Windows 7 so can anyone confirm whether Windows 10 Windows media player still supports metadata this is CD information but names albums tracks artists etc

It seems that Windows media player meta tags no longer work as of the 7th of June but currently I was using Windows 7 on a vent very old machine and I did hear that it's still worked for Windows 8 and 10 so last night I upgraded to Windows 8 and the meta tags still don't work so I'm wondering...

Windows made a poor choice doing away with the taskbar in windows media player. I want it back! I have looked online but the steps I found do not work. I have downloaded the WMPbandfile and extracted it but i cant seem to acess the WMP directory in program files so i can copy and paste...

Hi, I have a body cam which I use whilst on the scooter. Problem is that when I replay the files some play ok and the all of a sudden I get Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file. So why is this happening ? downloaded media codexs, DivX and Xvid and installed them...

I've always hated Windows Media Player, so after I installed 64-bit Windows 10 Pro (EN-US - NOT N or K), I uninstalled WMP 12 and was happy. But now I'm trying to install a new application called PlayOn Desktop, but it always fails because I don't have WMP installed. I've tried using Optional...

Hi! I just got a song with an album art, but it turn all of songs turn into same. How do can I fix this? I want to avoid Copyright infringement.

Hi. I just purchased an album from the artist's website. After DLing and extracting the files, I cannot find Windows Media Player anywhere in the files, nor can I seem to drag and drop the folder successfully. I was told to find the "File" drop down and then to find "Add to WMP" option but...

Hello all, I joined to ask a question after the recent Windows 10 update. I'm a long time Windows Media Player user and after the update, weird letters appear in certain places that weren't there before. After searching for a bit I couldn't find an answer, and if it is possible to do a reset...