What operating system are you using? If your missing that "About" feature, seems like something is wrong, open and close windows media player, reboot the computer, see if you can get that feature back. Windows Media Player 12 comes as part of Windows 7. "In Step 4, you have choice to choose selected file type to play as default with Windows Media Player. You need to click on "Choose defaults for this program" and then select file types that you want to associate with Windows Media Player." See link below,for more on above. Here is a link that might be useful: file types that you want to associate with Windows Media Player.

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

Jonnie many of us here use VLC player. It is free, just click the link to download. Your station works great, I am listening to it with John Coltraine playing "One down one up" as I write this with no problems. I use it for all my internet radio listening

are you opening the windows media player program and hitting the help button there in the program? It is likely 12 I think all windows 7 came with 12 and my guess is that yes you would have the latest version. I use VLC player myself instead and prefer it. as you can see here it is compatible with 7 VLC Media Player VLC