Neil
Fri Jul 11 15:23:10 PDT 2008
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:29:00 -0700, Ctwink
<Ctwink@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>I've been using Windows Media Player forever and I just dowloaded WMP11. How
>do I get the subfolders back under "Album", "Genre", "Contributing Artist",
>etc?!?! I always used the sub-folders to move music around (like we have
>done for years in Windows Explorer) and it's EXTREMELY cumbersome to try and
>move files around between folders when the only way you can do it is by
>renaming the individual music files or dragging and dropping entire folders
>into a new one. I guess I don't know why you release a new version and
>delete such a common functionality. Hopefully I'm missing something, but all
>I can see how to do is either turn on/off classic menus or turn on/off the
>navigation pane, but not turn the sub-folders back on.
There aren't really "folders" as such - that was a synthetic view of
media, which didn't correspond to the actual file locations in windows
explorer.
The older folder view wasn't capable of scaling to modern media
collections of several thousand MP3s.
If you spend a little time in the help files checking out library
searching and in particular in the search box, that'll help a great
deal. There are a wide range of advanced search options to rifle
through your media library.
If you went to the Search box and typed Genre:Dance that would get you
a list of tracks categorised in that area - you can filter than
further by typing the first few letters of an artist / track / albun
name, which returns all matches (and makes a nice lucky dip for tracks
you'd forgotten you had)
HTH
Cheers - Neil
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