Playing Media Files

With Windows Media Player, you can play sound and video files on your computer. You can find and download sound and video files from the Internet or copy media files from a CD or DVD. The Library makes it easy to organize your media. You can quickly search for media by name or you can browse through the Library and select the media file that you want to play. When you start Windows Media Player for the first time or play a song, the Player automatically searches certain folders on your computer for media files and organize them by category, such as Artist, Album, Genre, Rated Songs, or Year Released.

Perform a Quick Search

Click the Library tab.
Click in the Search box.
Type the text that you want to search by.

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