Category: Playing Music and Movies

If your PC has a DVD drive, you can use your PC to watch prerecorded DVD movies. When you insert a DVD in your DVD drive, your PC should sense the presence of the DVD, launch Windows Media Player, and start playing the movie. (You can also initiate playback from within WMP by pulling down…

You can connect any brand of portable music player to your PC. For most non-iPod players, you can use Windows Media Player to transfer music from your PC to your portable device. TIP Device Setup The first time you connect a portable audio player to your PC, Windows Media Player starts the Device Setup Wizard.…

You can store thousands of songs on your iPod, which makes it a little difficult to find the music you want. One way to organize your music is to create playlists of your favorite songs. Smart playlists let you select songs by artist, album, genre, and so on.

The key to managing the music on your iPod is mastering Apple’s iTunes software. To transfer songs to your iPod, all you have to do is check them. The next time you connect your iPod, all the checked songs in your Library will be downloaded. NOTE Automatic Transfer The next time you connect your iPod,…

To use the iPod with your PC, you first have to install Apple’s iTunes software, which comes on the accompanying CD. When you connect your iPod to your PC, your computer automatically launches the iTunes software and transfers any new songs and playlists you’ve added since the last time you connected.

If you have a recordable CD drive (called a CD burner) in your PC, you can make your own audio mix CDs. You can take any combination of songs on your hard disk; “burn” them onto a blank CD; and then play that CD in your home, car, or portable CD player. TIP Use CD-R Discs…

After you’ve created a playlist, you can play back any or all songs in that playlist in any order. TIP Random Play To play the songs in a playlist in random order, pull down the Play menu and check the Shuffle option.

Files in your Windows Media Player library can be combined into playlists. You can create playlists from the files you have stored on your hard disk, in any order you want just like listening to a radio station’s playlist.

Windows Media Player lets you copy music from your CDs to your PC’s hard drive. You can then listen to these digital audio files on your computer, transfer the files to a portable music player, or burn your own custom mix CDs. This process of copying files from a CD to your hard disk is…

You play audio CDs using your PC’s CD-ROM drive and Windows Media Player (WMP). You can also use WMP to play songs you’ve downloaded to your PC from the Internet and (if your PC has a DVD drive) to play DVD movies. TIP Download the Latest Version This app covers Windows Media Player version 10.…