Windows Media Player - My Fault Problem

I generally use WMP to playback music in Windows, I like it better than any other programme that is on the market. I hate Winamp like a passion and iTunes is too bloated for general use.

Anyway I purchased music in iTunes M4A files and they showed up in my WMP library, then I ripped a CD as MP3 and that showed up in the Library, not at first even though they were the same artist and same album, they were seperate because they file types were different. I LIKED IT LIKE THAT, it meant I could play the same album and put my own songs in one and not in the other album eg. I could pretend I had DELUXE VERSION by renaming one album.

Anyway I did something and it combines the two albums, and now adds them all together, how do I make it separated again?

did you try adding the "type" column and sorting the songs by that?

Flopo79 said:

did you try adding the "type" column and sorting the songs by that?

I tried that and it didnt seem to work, its something to do with settings.

noob said:

If you have two different folders in your WMP library, one for MP3, one for M4A, then you could opt for the folders view on WMP.....and only open one folder at a time.

They already are in two different folders, and I tried this and it seems to mix them up anyway, eventually!


Would uninstalling WMP and re-installing it, undo the settings, so it would go back to how it was?

Grimmjow said:

Make a playlist for each of the folders.

Thanks I'll try that, but it won't be the same in all music view, but the playlists can have different albums.