Questions tagged [windows-media-player]
Windows Media Player is the media management and playback application that comes with Windows.
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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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Why do ripped music files start with a number? Is there a way to remove in bulk or prevent these from occuring in future CD rips?
I just ripped 90 CDs to my PC, and each of the music file titles begin with a number like so:
Why are these numbers present?
Is there a way to remove these in bulk?
Is there a way to prevent these ...
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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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How to fix Windows Media Player not selecting correct audio track when playing an MP4 file?
Windows Media Player does not play back the correct audio track when one is selected from the Audio menu.
This is for MP4 files with multiple audio tracks (around 32-64).
VLC does the correct thing in ...
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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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In Windows Media Player, for an album "Turner and Kirwan of Wexford, WMP shows Ike and Tina Turner. Is there any way to 'fix' that?
Windows Media Player shows the WRONG "Artist" for Album(s). As an example, I have "Turner and Kirwan of Wexford" "Absolutely and Completely" for which WMP displays Ike ...
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how to both enable Windows Search AND avoid System Volume Information folder being written to removable drives
This refers to Windows 10 Pro 64-bit 20H2 and probably all Windows 10 versions.
I need to have Windows Media Player Service running on my machine so that media devices can access it to play videos.
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Mp4 file that plays fine on Windows Quicktime but video frames not in order and out of sync with audio in VLC
Someone has sent me a video that I wish to embed into a presentation I'm building. However, it doesn't play back as the author intended either embedded or standalone. I suspect was encoded on a Mac, ...
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how to change windows media player hotkeys
is there anyway to change windows media player 12 hotkeys? there was a "wmpk" plugin for previous version which right now doesn't work. and my searches didn't lead me anywhere.
of course any ...
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mpeg file cannot be replayed
I have problems replaying some mpeg file with SMPlayer. Below is the log.
The other UMP just quickly counts the time but nothing can be heared.
Some other WMP opens a dialog with error.
So nowhere I ...
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