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.

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

I would not use quick time player there is an alternative that is a better choice. QuickTime Alternative 3.2.2 the only thing that requires quicktime are some .mov files and itunes you can usually get by with out it unless you come across a site that specifically says it has to have quick time but that alternative is a better way to go. so you can go to add remove and get rid of it.

To paste Album Art, right click the grey icon, a dropdown will have the selection "Paste Album Art" *note, you'll have to have the album art or photo to be on your clipboard to have "paste album art" to show. Which means you'll have to copy the album art photo from somewhere. In my music folder there is some album art, but not all songs come with the album art photo in the song tag. Rip means that it will save the burn info in C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name\My Documents\My Music, or the folder of your choice. Rip will also burn if there is a cd inserted. Burn means it will burn straight away with a cd inserted, basically the same thing except Rip saves the info to a folder, possibly to burn at another time. There is a way to organize all your music by genre, year, rating, artist, ect. I used to have the library organized on the older WMP9 & 10, but don't have the time now to figure it out. I just play the songs and they are saved in the library in alphabetical order.