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.
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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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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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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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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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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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How to delete music as it's being played
I have huge old collections of music that I'd like to whittle down by listening through and deleting those I don't want to keep. Currently, my process for doing so is this:
Open the folder containing ...
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Windows 11's new media player cannot play opus encoded audio in mp4 file
youtube-dl-gui allows choosing to download a video as an .mp4 file or an .mkv file. According to VLC, both options end up having the audio portion encoded as Opus audio. However, attempting to play ...
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How to prevent automatic jumping to the next track?
I need to play a list of mp3 files one by one. I mean I need to go to the next track manually. I tried to do so in PotPlayer, WMP and VLC. All of them jump to the next track after playing the current ...
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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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How do I change the artist image in Media Player?
I have this displayed in my Media Player.
Obviously, my album is not by John F. Kennedy. How can I change the artist picture?
This question is not a duplicate of this one, which asks about the legacy ...
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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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Convert WebM to Opus without encoding?
Tried all various commands with ffmpeg and also tried using mkvconvert and while they both instantly convert or extract the .opus from the .webm file.. the problem is the output file is always ...
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