Can I make WMP 11 do these things?

An old version of WMP - I think it was 9 - had a feature which would
connect to a website (maybe it was music.com, but my memory isn't improving
with age) and show various pieces of album information about the mp3 one
was listening to, including when it was recorded, who played on the record,
a review which gave some history and such about the record. This was great
stuff for an old jazz fart like me, and I loved having it be the default
view. Is there any way to make WMP 11 do that, instead of showing those
goddam record stores?

Also, can I make it show my library in a plain old Explorer style list or
details view file tree, not the WMP folder view with the alphabetical
headings and all that other clutter? My collection is almost 50 GBs, and
browsing it via any of the views which are native to WMP, quite frankly,
sucks.

I'm not above paying a reasonable sum of money for a plug-in or such which
would do these things. I'd appreciate any help anyone can offer...

John
Thu Mar 20 15:44:13 PDT 2008

This would be nice, too: To be able to select which folder to rip to every
time you rip, by means of as "Save as" Dialogue window, or somesuch...

John Wright <jacksxxxxnetjunk@yahoo.com(removexs)> wrote in
news:FOlEj.32664$J41.5362@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net:

> An old version of WMP - I think it was 9 - had a feature which would
> connect to a website (maybe it was music.com, but my memory isn't
> improving with age) and show various pieces of album information about
> the mp3 one was listening to, including when it was recorded, who
> played on the record, a review which gave some history and such about
> the record. This was great stuff for an old jazz fart like me, and I
> loved having it be the default view. Is there any way to make WMP 11
> do that, instead of showing those goddam record stores?
>
> Also, can I make it show my library in a plain old Explorer style list
> or details view file tree, not the WMP folder view with the
> alphabetical headings and all that other clutter? My collection is
> almost 50 GBs, and browsing it via any of the views which are native
> to WMP, quite frankly, sucks.
>
> I'm not above paying a reasonable sum of money for a plug-in or such
> which would do these things. I'd appreciate any help anyone can
> offer...
>
>

Steve
Thu Mar 20 18:00:56 PDT 2008

John,

Contact me at rlaird@penn.com. I can help you.

Steve



"John Wright" <jacksxxxxnetjunk@yahoo.com(removexs)> wrote in message
news:FOlEj.32664$J41.5362@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net...
> An old version of WMP - I think it was 9 - had a feature which would
> connect to a website (maybe it was music.com, but my memory isn't
> improving
> with age) and show various pieces of album information about the mp3 one
> was listening to, including when it was recorded, who played on the
> record,
> a review which gave some history and such about the record. This was great
> stuff for an old jazz fart like me, and I loved having it be the default
> view. Is there any way to make WMP 11 do that, instead of showing those
> goddam record stores?
>
> Also, can I make it show my library in a plain old Explorer style list or
> details view file tree, not the WMP folder view with the alphabetical
> headings and all that other clutter? My collection is almost 50 GBs, and
> browsing it via any of the views which are native to WMP, quite frankly,
> sucks.
>
> I'm not above paying a reasonable sum of money for a plug-in or such which
> would do these things. I'd appreciate any help anyone can offer...
>

Ed
Mon Jun 16 22:23:01 PDT 2008

Hi John,
WMP11 WILL DO MUCH MORE. Firstly once you open WMP you can click on the
albums and then play each album as you like. Secondly go to tools /options
and add all the columns you want to see and they will show on youe library as
each tune is listed.
Hope this helps from another old Fart who loves his music.

"John Wright" wrote:

> An old version of WMP - I think it was 9 - had a feature which would
> connect to a website (maybe it was music.com, but my memory isn't improving
> with age) and show various pieces of album information about the mp3 one
> was listening to, including when it was recorded, who played on the record,
> a review which gave some history and such about the record. This was great
> stuff for an old jazz fart like me, and I loved having it be the default
> view. Is there any way to make WMP 11 do that, instead of showing those
> goddam record stores?
>
> Also, can I make it show my library in a plain old Explorer style list or
> details view file tree, not the WMP folder view with the alphabetical
> headings and all that other clutter? My collection is almost 50 GBs, and
> browsing it via any of the views which are native to WMP, quite frankly,
> sucks.
>
> I'm not above paying a reasonable sum of money for a plug-in or such which
> would do these things. I'd appreciate any help anyone can offer...
>
>