I have a couple of music folders on an external drive, and I have both of
them checked to be "monitored" for my music library, however, some reason,
the library will only load half-2/3 of the songs in the library.  It will
skip entire albums.  For example, I have 4 albums by ...

I have been trying to solve this problem for quite some time now and have
posted about it in the past but it still persits.  For some reason I cannot
get my WMP library to populate.  I moved all of my mp3 files to a NAS drive
and then cleared out my WMP library.  When I tried to ...

After downloading the Windows Media.sitx to my desktop, when I double click
it I get a "There is no defualt application specifiedto open the document
Window Media.sitx".  And it gives me the option to "Choose Application"
HELP!  What should I choose?  How do I do it?  

Hi, a silly question, but...
In WMP10, in my library, I was able to drag songs from one album to another,
and then all of those songs would be automatically be renamed according to
the second album details.  This works with album, artist and genre names, for

Ok, I have looked around and noticed a few other people have had this same
problem. Everyone seems to be able to fix it by downloading the program found
here (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71641) and then going to
start/run and adding /Q to the end of the run command for ...

I'm currently running WMP11 Beta 2 on Windows XP SP2.
Whenever I try to rip a CD (Settings: MP3, 128kbps), WMP stops responding
and runs up all available CPU resources. It cannot be stopped via Task
Manager, system shut down, or Process Explorer - It simply continues,

WMP is trashing my MP3s. It happens when it adds tag info to them.
Here's an example:
I have the album Afterburner by ZZTop which I ripped some time ago with EAC
and encoded with LAME. I've been playing it just fine for years in many

For some reason WMP10 uninstalled when I tested out WMP11. I tried to install
by downloading an it tells me I have a newer version. I tried using the
add/remove windows components and not luck. I also manually deleted all
files, folders and registry items and it gives me the same ...

Ive done the monitor folders thing and selected my music, but nothing ever
happens! It says its importing but never seems to.

I just noticed that WMP stopped playing any files on the internet, as a
plug-in in the browser or stand alone. I am getting the error:
Windows Media Player cannot play the file. If the file is located on the
Internet, connect to the Internet. If the file is located on a removable

I've recently converted to WMP11, and I've found all my multiple-disc
albums become sorted as (Disc 1 Track 1), (Disc 2 Track 1).  Is there
any way to make the library sort (Disc 1 Track 1), (Disc 1 Track 2)...?
Secondly, how do I change the names/function of the Custom 1 and Custom

I'd just like to know whether there are any plans to include more file
extensions (and thus codecs) with the upcoming Media Player 11? Most of my
songs are in .m4a format due to the better compression and quality of the
file. I don't like iTunes, and would rather use Media Player ...

When you navigate inside an artist in the interface, I used to be able to see
the album art on the left with some details such as the artist and the date
the album was made etc.
Like this....

It seems that until Microsoft acknowledge and fix the bug about metadata
being overwritten, a backup is indeed the only way to protect all of the
user-entered library data that we users have entered.  
What I'm curious about is the process to restore from backup.  Every time I

I've answered to the post where I reported the 2 WMP11 bugs please could the
MS employee who answered me (Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]) read the answer
please?