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Organizing your media collection

Windows Media Player can organize all the media on your computer and on the Internet that you have access to. Before Windows Media Player, you had to know where files were on your computer so that you could play them. To play files on the Internet, you had to go to a Web site and click on the links provided. Now Windows Media Player provides Media Library which you can use to save links to files on your computer or sites on the Internet. You can even create a playlist, which is a list of links to the various files on your computer, your network, or the Internet. Whenever you hear audio that you think you might want to play again, save it to your library. If the file is on the Internet, Media Library saves the link to that file. If the audio was a song on a CD you were listening to, copy that CD track and add it to your Media Library. Use Media Library to create playlists and search for music and video on your computer. Media Library separates your stored media into audio and video. Within the audio category, there are subcategories such as Album title, Artist name, and Genre. For video there is one subcategory – the author.

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