Hi ravencajun, Thanks for the information, I put this in my favorites so that I can go back and research those later. I hope you don't mind but I do have another question about those type of programs. I have never used Quick Time or itunes, they were on my computer when I had it built. My question is what are the purpose of these programs and what are they used for? Please give me an example. I was use to Media Player because of my music and I learned how to put some music into the Media Player. I know there are programs out there that you can use for music n't open media player why?" size=40> Message: Optional Link URL:    Name of the Link: Information about Posting You must be logged in to post a message. Once you are logged in, a posting window will appear at the bottom of the messages. If you are not a member, please register for an account. Please review our Rules of Play before posting. Posting is a two-step process. Once you have composed your message, you will be taken to the preview page. You will then have a chance to review your post, make changes and upload photos. After posting your message, you may need to refresh the forum page in order to see it. Before posting copyrighted material, please read about Copyright and Fair Use. We have a strict no-advertising policy! If you would like to practice posting or uploading photos, please visit our Test forum. If you need assistance, please Contact Us and we will be happy to help. Learn more about in-text links on this page here Return to the Computer Help Forum Most Recent Posts Compost now?Bunny poop? â¢Â by kimmsr Bernhardt leather â¢Â by Freethinker99 Raised Garden Bed soil help â¢Â by marymcp mycorrhizae for old pasture land? â¢Â by kimmsr UPDATE: January O.B.F. Member's Re-Purposed Fun Part 2 â¢Â by pmb2005 Quality sofa from Restoration Hardware? â¢Â by Freethinker99 Luna Moth Eclosed â¢Â by woollybear69 blueberries blooming too early! â¢Â by jbclem Leather-look blended sofa? â¢Â by Freethinker99 the f4f forum â¢Â by fespo Explore GardenWeb Ann's Cream Cheese Babka Perfect for Holiday Baking Feeding...

I Googled and found some instructions from Microsoft. Copied directly from the website: You can use Windows Media Player to quickly find and play your music, video, and picture files. You can also find where media files are stored in your computer's media libraries or jump to music in the same album. Note Although you can access your media items in the Windows Media Player Library, the actual media files can be found in Windows libraries (Music, Videos, Pictures, and Recorded TV) on your computer. For more information about the Player Library, see Getting started with Windows Media Player. Hide all To search for items in the Player Library To ensure that you can easily find items in the Player Library, it's important that files have accurate and complete media information. If necessary, you can add or change media information yourself. For more information about changing media information, see Add or edit media information in Windows Media Player. Click the Start button Picture of the Start button, click All Programs, and then click Windows Media Player. If the Player is currently open and you’re in Now Playing mode, click the Switch to Library button Picture of the Switch to Library button in the upper-right corner of the Player. In the search box, type the text you want to find. Note that it isn't possible to use wildcard characters, such as * and ? in a search. Note To clear the search box of previous search criteria, click the Clear search button Picture of the Clear Search button. To find where a file is stored on your computer To find a media file on your computer so you can move or copy it, do the following: Click the Start button Picture of the Start button, click All Programs, and then click Windows Media Player. If the Player is currently open and you’re in Now Playing mode, click the Switch to Library button Picture of the Switch to Library button in the upper-right corner of the Player. In the Player Library, browse to the file you want to find on your computer. Right-click the file, and then click Open file location. To find all the folders on your computer where a media type is stored To find where all files for a media type (for example, Music) are stored, do the following: Click the Start button Picture of the Start button, click All Programs, and then click Windows Media Player. If the Player is currently open and you’re in Now Playing mode, click the Switch to Library button Picture of the Switch to Library button in the upper-right corner of the Player. In the Player Library, click Organize, and then click Customize navigation pane. Select the Folder check box for a media type (for example, Music), and then click OK. In the navigation pane, click Folder. A column in the details pane displays the path to all of the files in that category. To find files you downloaded from an online store If you want to see which online stores were used to purchase your media items, do the following: Click the Start button Picture of the Start button, click All Programs, and then click Windows Media Player. If the Player is currently open and you’re in Now Playing mode, click the Switch to Library button Picture of the Switch to Library button in the upper-right corner of the Player. Click Organize, and then click Customize navigation pane. Select the Online stores check box for a media type (for example, Music), and then click OK. In the navigation pane, click Online stores. In the details pane, the files in your Player Library will grouped by the online stores where they were purchased. Here is a link that might be useful: Find items in the Windows Media Player Library

VLC used to hiccup at the start of every FLAC file I played. In both the Linux version and the Windows version on different machines. Several updates and it eventually got fixed but until then I used Media Player Classic. http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/ Or just for audio, Foobar: http://www.foobar2000.org/ Windows Media Player pretended not to even know the FLAC codec existed so I never had use for it. VLC amazed me by playing RAR'd up DVD(VOB) movies before they even finished downloading. Public Domain movies of course. The only thing you may want to watch if you install VLC is that they may try to slip in some useless(to me) toolbar, change your search engine or whatever. Just uncheck the box unless you want it. Actually, I had forgotten MPC until I started writing this so I installed it. To its credit, it didn't try to slip anything else into the install, which I like.

Use your head with this - a PC isn't a CD player, it's even better. Put any and all your CDs into the PC just once, rip them (transcribe the music files into computer files), and then play them an infinite number of times using the sound files stored on your hard drive. Either WMP or Itunes will do the rip. If the CD can be read from one PC and not the other, rip the CD on the working PC and then move the files to the other. Or, rip all the working files on the "bad" PC, and use the working PC to rip and transfer just the one non-working file. A concept that's hard for some to grasp - if you're trying to do something and it doesn't work, it's unlikely the solution is to do the same thing over and over again. Instead, try something different.