Windows Media Player, part 1

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Sandal wrote:
> Hello,
> A little while ago I transferred some of my CD and vinyl collection
> on to my PC using Windows Media Player 9+, all in all about 1500
> songs transferred randomly everything went fine.
>
> I then copied these tracks over to my music folder in my Documents,
> from there sorted them into year or artist by making folders.
>
> So for example, I might have 50 track's of various artists from the
> Fifties so I created a Fifties folder the same for the Thirties,
> Forties Sixties and so on. Where I have 50 tracks by the same artist,
> Buddy Holly or the Trogs I have created a folder called Buddy Holly
> or the Trogs and so on and I have no problem listening to any track
> on my PC via WMP
>
> My questions are, when I open WMP, click media library, then click
> all music in
> left-hand column, I can see all the tracks either under artist,
> album, or genre but it's not how I want it.
>
> I would like to clear all these categories of everything but don't
> know how to on mass. Individual entries I can delete but that would
> take for ever, how do I do this on a larger scale?
>
> Then I would like to copy but not move my sorted folders from the my
> music folder into WMP, can I do this and how and will my tracks
> still play?

You might want to post this message where the Media Player experts hang out.
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.multimedia.windows.mediaplayer

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

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Hello Ronnie,

Thankyou for your reply, I have now done this.
--
Sandal


"Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:

> Sandal wrote:
> > Hello,
> > A little while ago I transferred some of my CD and vinyl collection
> > on to my PC using Windows Media Player 9+, all in all about 1500
> > songs transferred randomly everything went fine.
> >
> > I then copied these tracks over to my music folder in my Documents,
> > from there sorted them into year or artist by making folders.
> >
> > So for example, I might have 50 track's of various artists from the
> > Fifties so I created a Fifties folder the same for the Thirties,
> > Forties Sixties and so on. Where I have 50 tracks by the same artist,
> > Buddy Holly or the Trogs I have created a folder called Buddy Holly
> > or the Trogs and so on and I have no problem listening to any track
> > on my PC via WMP
> >
> > My questions are, when I open WMP, click media library, then click
> > all music in
> > left-hand column, I can see all the tracks either under artist,
> > album, or genre but it's not how I want it.
> >
> > I would like to clear all these categories of everything but don't
> > know how to on mass. Individual entries I can delete but that would
> > take for ever, how do I do this on a larger scale?
> >
> > Then I would like to copy but not move my sorted folders from the my
> > music folder into WMP, can I do this and how and will my tracks
> > still play?
>
> You might want to post this message where the Media Player experts hang out.
> news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.multimedia.windows.mediaplayer
>
> --
>
> Ronnie Vernon
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>