I have WMP9 running under XP/SP3/HE. I have a large number of entries for classical music in the Media Library of WMP and I wish to tidy things up. As an example I have no less than 9 separate entries for the 9 Beethoven Symphonies, starting with Beethoven - Symphony No 1 and finishing with Beethoven - Symphony No 9. Each entry is a playlist containing the movements for that particular symphony. What I wish is a single entry in the Media Library entitled Beethoven - Symphonies that, when opened up, would display the 9 symphonies. Each playlist would contain the movements of the particular symphony. Using the Add To Playlist command simply puts every movement from every symphony into a single giant playlist. Creating an asx or wpl file can be used to give a single entry in the Media Library which contains all of the playlists but, unfortunately, when one work has finished the next begins automatically. I wish for the work selected to be played and then for WMP to stop. Even for a lover of Beethoven, all 9 symphonies one after the other is a bit too much of a good thing! Is it possible to do this? Looking at the MS ASX Elements page I was hoping that STARTMARKER and ENDMARKER, which are described as markers for WMP starting and stopping rendering a stream, might be usable but I have been unable to find any info on their use - of course, I may be barking up completely the wrong tree here.
I sounds like you want to have playlist for each album but see all the albums under one artist in the same view. Try a better audio manager. I use Media Monkey. You can view your music either by artist/album or by how they are organized on your hard disks. Ever view will work for you. I can not recal one query for help for Media Monkey of WinAmp on this board in 5 years. WMP the worst offender, had several pleas for help just this weekend. It 'lost' the burners on one computer even though XP could see them. Another user complianed WMP couldn't burn a disk. It wrote to the disk to test that the disk was writable then wanted a new disk because that one was used. These were just the highlights for this weekend. How can you use such stupid software? Both Media Monkley and WinAmp, the most popular audio organizers, have free versions that kill WMP and itunes.
Thanks for the reply. Since posting I found and downloaded MediaMonkey and it does seem to do as you say, which meets my requirements - I shall continue playing around with it. However, a supplementary question if I may. With WMP you can display the lyrics in a box neatly positioned at the bottom of the screen, this box is resizeable and new lyrics automatically open for each new track. If you can follow something being sung in Latin without the lyrics you're a much, much better linguist than I am! With MediaMonkey I have found how to open a lyrics box but it is quite large, not resizeable and positioned in the middle of the scree. You also have to change the lyrics for each track by hand. Can MediaMonkey do anything equvalent to WMP for lyrics?
I don't know. Check the plug ins. I do have evil lyrics installed. That hunts the internet for the lyrics for the currently played tune. I listen to music while I do other tasks so I rairly activate this feature. You can also check out WinAmp. That would be more of a Winamp kind of thing. I have both on my computer. MM is strongest with organizational type stuff. It is most valuable with huge libraries. MM usis a SQL back end for speed and power. It has the ability to 'absorb' VB scripts to run specialized tasks. They have a script forum where you can find hundreds of scrips to do just about anything to the database. They are different than a plug in which have to do with the interface.
