Playlist wont play in WMP9

I'm running Windows Media Player 9 by personal preference on WinXP;SP2, 40GB
HD...Dell Laptop. I've downloaded a bunch of one minute wmv files. Ten to
fiftteen mini-movies that are ZIPPED into one WinZip file. I'm trying to save
drive space by leaving the folders zipped. I was told that I could drag and
drop the 10-15 mini-movies into a blank Windows Media Player (WMP) and they'd
start playing one after the other. But I get a 'circle-crossbar' symbol
showing that this action cannot be done whenever I hover over the blank WMP.
Then literally drag the wmv files from their WinZip folder without extracting
them and drag them directly onto my WMP icon in the start menu. The movies
compile and then they play. So I tried to streamline this process by building
a 'playlist'. Without extracting the movies, I open the zipped folder and
simply drag&drop the movies into the blank playlist and name my new playlist.
I close the zipped folder. But in WMP, when I select 'File > Open (navigate
to 'My Playlist' folder) > select the 'new playlist', I receive this message:
"Windows Media Player cannot find the specified file. Be sure the path is
typed correctly. If it is, the file does not exist at the specified location,
or the computer where the file is stored is offline." Through practice I
realized that I can only play one zipped folder at a time WHILE THE ZIPPED
FOLDER'S OPEN after drag/dropping it's contents onto the WMP icon. This is a
hastle. I'm trying to save drive space by leaving the folders zipped, so how
can I play all the zipped one minute files at one time WITHOUT unzipping the
folder/extracting the files from the folder that they're in.

zachd
Tue Jul 22 02:21:31 PDT 2008


Buy a bigger hard drive. WinZIP is deleting the temporary files when you
close it. If you don't want it to do that, turn that off. But then you
need a bigger hard drive, so we're looping. =\

Zipped folders aren't supported for playback.

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"a144mb" <a144mb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm running Windows Media Player 9 by personal preference on WinXP;SP2,
> 40GB
> HD...Dell Laptop. I've downloaded a bunch of one minute wmv files. Ten to
> fiftteen mini-movies that are ZIPPED into one WinZip file. I'm trying to
> save
> drive space by leaving the folders zipped. I was told that I could drag
> and
> drop the 10-15 mini-movies into a blank Windows Media Player (WMP) and
> they'd
> start playing one after the other. But I get a 'circle-crossbar' symbol
> showing that this action cannot be done whenever I hover over the blank
> WMP.
> Then literally drag the wmv files from their WinZip folder without
> extracting
> them and drag them directly onto my WMP icon in the start menu. The movies
> compile and then they play. So I tried to streamline this process by
> building
> a 'playlist'. Without extracting the movies, I open the zipped folder and
> simply drag&drop the movies into the blank playlist and name my new
> playlist.
> I close the zipped folder. But in WMP, when I select 'File > Open
> (navigate
> to 'My Playlist' folder) > select the 'new playlist', I receive this
> message:
> "Windows Media Player cannot find the specified file. Be sure the path is
> typed correctly. If it is, the file does not exist at the specified
> location,
> or the computer where the file is stored is offline." Through practice I
> realized that I can only play one zipped folder at a time WHILE THE ZIPPED
> FOLDER'S OPEN after drag/dropping it's contents onto the WMP icon. This is
> a
> hastle. I'm trying to save drive space by leaving the folders zipped, so
> how
> can I play all the zipped one minute files at one time WITHOUT unzipping
> the
> folder/extracting the files from the folder that they're in.