Your Complete Guide to Windows Media Player 12

By Jack Busch on Mon, 06/28/2010 - 16:43

Here at 7 Tutorials, we’ve been slowly but steadily covering all of the features that Windows Media Player 12 brings to Windows 7 users. Windows Media Player has long been a favorite bundled application for organizing, ripping, burning and, of course, playing music, videos and more. Over the years, Windows Media Player has evolved, expanding in complexity and features while simultaneously streamlining its interface towards a more intuitive user experience. In our opinion, Windows Media Player 12 is the best iteration of this long running media library and playback program. After delving into our tutorials, guides and articles below and learning the ins and outs of Windows Media Player 12, we think you’ll agree.

Getting Started with Windows Media Player 12

Beginners who are new to media library programs or just Windows Media Player 12, should begin here. In fact, even if you’re a longtime Windows Media Player veteran, we recommend starting from this section anyway. There are some features that have been tweaked, added and moved around in this latest version and these introductory articles will help familiarize you with the nuts and bolts of Windows Media Player 12.

Organizing Your Music, Pictures and Video with Windows Media Player 12

Windows Media Player 12 isn’t just for playing back music files on the fly—it’s a bona fide media library organization solution. These guides will help you create playlists, rip audio CDs and sort and tag your media for quick navigation and seamless organization.

Sharing, Burning and Streaming Your Windows Media Player 12 Library

Most serious PC users have at least two machines in the household or office, and Windows Media Player 12 is hip to this trend. You can take your library with you by burning a disc, sharing over a home network or even streaming over the Internet. Read through our media sharing and streaming guides and never get caught without your favorite jams again.

Customizing and Extending Your Windows Media Player 12 Experience

Windows Media Player 12 rocks out of the box, but there’s always room for tweaking. There a numerous ways to make Windows Media Player 12 your own. This includes all fronts—sonically, visually and even in terms of usability. Once you’ve mastered the above topics, you can move into the more advanced customization guides below.

Conclusion

There you have it. After reading through these articles, you should be an expert on Windows Media Player 12. One thing that we’ve learned after tinkering with Windows Media Player 12 is that it’s incredibly easy to use from the get go but there’s ample opportunity to delve into more advanced functionality. Windows Media Player 12 has a deceptively simple interface that hides one of the most powerful and useful media library programs to date. If you haven’t already, try Windows Media Player 12 out for a week, try out some of our tips, tricks and tweaks and let us know what you think in the comments.

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All these guides still don't

Ravi Gupta (not verified) - Wed, 06/30/2010 - 05:44

All these guides still don't cover - how to make WMP play subtitle files like .srt...

Install a codec pack such as

Ciprian Adrian Rusen - Wed, 06/30/2010 - 11:13

Install a codec pack such as K-lite Code Pack and subtitles will be played automatically.
All you need to make sure is that the subtitles have the same file name as the movie.

It really would be a great

John Brockbank (not verified) - Sun, 11/07/2010 - 06:02

It really would be a great idea if the help system, and everything else to do with media player, told me the following basic information.

Once I have a directory containing some music files, let's say the files are named *.mp3, How do I make them into a playlist?

I have usually managed to do this but it always takes me so long and I have tried so many methods, that I can not do it next time and so take another boring frustrating couple of hours retrying.

I realise that the actual method I am supposed to use doing it my way is to put the files into a particular directory, but I always try that first and media player does not show them when I double click it.

What I would really appreciate is for someone to rip or copy into a directory called \USERS\username\newalbum
a few new mp3 files and then open up media player and click help and work out if one can tell from the help system how to make these files into a playlist.

Then to reply to my message and tell me how stupid I am and where in the help system it tells me how to do it.

Obviously, in old versions of media player it was intuitive and a doddle, but these days media player has become unfathomable. (I have tried flv, winamp, and loads of others and while they are all very simple, I do not like them because they lack some things I like about MP.