Questions tagged [windows-media-player]
Windows Media Player is the media management and playback application that comes with Windows.
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.cda music files on commercial audio CD are not recognized with their media information
I recently purchased a Commercial Audio CD. When I load the CD through an external CD drive in Windows 11, it reads properly, but doesn't detect the music info from that commercial CD.
Also, it doesn'...
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Windows Media Player (Legacy) - Missing Artist/Title etc. when ripping
I haven't ripped any CDs lately, but today, when I loaded up a CD (U2, The Best of 1980 - 1990) (not an obscure title!), it is just displaying generic "Track 1", "Unknown artist," ...
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Need help getting WIndows Media Player to convert again
On another one of my computers, when I'm in file explorer and I drag an .mp4 video onto my walkman (model NWZ-E354), file explorer/WMP asks if I would like to convert it to .wmv before copying (since ...
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Why doesn’t the record window go full screen in video player?
I want to record a simulation (video). I press Win+ Alt+R but when I tune the video on Windows Media Player the video takes up only 1/4 of the screen of Window Media Player and obviously I cant see ...
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Audio track transcoded to AAC with FFMPEG won't play
At this point, I've transcoded dozens if not hundreds of files with FFMPEG, but I have one particular file that's giving me trouble and I can't figure out why.
For testing, I'm using a 10 second ...
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Autohotkey V2 Script not working for WMP next/previous via PowerToys
I'm using the following script which does not produce errors, but also does not work I'm afraid:
if WinActive("ahk_exe wmplayer.exe") or WinActive("ahk_exe Spotify.exe")
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Why does Media Player stop playing music when going into sleep mode on Windows 11 version 24H2?
When I close my laptop lid, Windows goes into sleep mode.
On the previous Windows 11 version (22H2) this didn't stop Media Player from playing music.
I liked this feature, since closing the lid didn't ...
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How to store ratings in a Windows Media Player Playlist?
I define a playlist in Windows Media Player, then set a rating to a song, close it, open it again. And the rating is gone.
Is there a way to "save" the rating, so the rating of the songs is ...
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Windows Media Player automatic playlist creates multiple duplicates of the same music file
For some reason Windows Media Player does a very bad job of keeping unique files unique in their automatic playlists, as the image in the link shows. WMP snapshot showing 8 dupes of Bronski Beat - ...
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Windows Media Player randomly can't access files
So context: I have 4 locally stored music files. These exact same files are copied quite literally everywhere: my desktop, my 3 laptops, 2 phones, even my car. I've used them for literally 7 years, ...
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Change OneDrive media player default
I recently starting using OneDrive under my MS 365 subscription to backup files. Once it synced the files I noticed a problem with my PowerPoint files with links to videos. When opening these links ...
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How do I make a (desktop) shortcut to play a specific folder in the new Windows Media Player?
I have experience with you being able to make a shortcut for VLC where you specify VLC's .exe location, then you add "-LZ" with the folder location after that to start playing media (music) ...
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How to stop windows media player from "Updating media library"?
I am using Windows media player in Windows 10 and would like to stop the annoying "Updating media library" which seems to be ongoing all the time. I followed the instructions I found HERE, ...
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Windows Media Player mute sound by default when launching the program
When I open any file on Windows Media Player, it plays with the sound muted. I can turn on the sound if I click on the sound button next to the volume slider. But if I exit and open again the program, ...
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MP4 video is blurry when scaled up in windows media player
When I open an MP4 video file in Windows Media Player, it is sharp in windowed mode, but very blurry when the video is scaled up (e.g. when I enter fullscreen mode, or even when I make the window ...
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