WMP - Can I separate my library into New & Old?

cjhtwo said:

It now shows up in the Library in Windows Explorer, but it's still not in the Library in WMP. It would have been helpful if Windows 7 hadn't started calling everything a library. :)

Well, I just spent almost two hours with this stooopid WMP trying to figure this out....I wanted to find the answer, so I tried a different approach...adding a video folder.

I had downloaded the mp4 video with the guy talking about Firefox 3.6, added it to the main Video Library, and I can play it in WMP, but I can't make it visible in that folder view....sound familiar?

I've methodically gone through various help menus, and I even went into the "Turn Windows Features On and Off" and enabled every single feature, on the off chance that something I had disabled previously was affecting this. I set in the WMP options menu the feature pictured below, played the video , and still could not get it to show up....even though repeated attempts to add it now tell me that it is in the WMP library.

So I am at the point now of saying "screw this thing" and downloading the often-recommended VLC media player to use instead.

For you, cjhtwo, maybe a different program would be the answer for you too. You didn't mention, I don't think, whether the things you were downloading daily were audio or video. I take care of my music and podcast needs with MediaMonkey (asides from CD ripping) and I will most likely give VLC a try in the next day or so for video use. Any other questions, I'll do my best to help you out.

cjhtwo said:

Thanks for all the work you did! What I'll probably end up doing is trying to go back to the WMP version that I have on my 3 yr old XP desktop. 12 has a few features that I like better than the old one, but none of them are worth having to go through 4 page-downs to get to the hourly news that just downloaded.

Thanks again for all the work you did!

You're welcome, and good luck with getting WMP11!:)