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Microsoft Windows XP Starter Edition


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playlists


You can arrange and rearrange the order in which you play music and other audio files copied to your computer. Arrangements of such files in order are called playlists. They're fun to create and take only a few seconds to set up. To get started, try creating a modest playlist with six songs from three different albums copied to your computer and stored in Media Library. Here's how.

To create playlists

  1. Click Start, and then click Windows Media Player.
  2. Click Media Library.
  3. Click New Playlist on the toolbar. In the New Playlist box, type a name for the playlist, and then click OK.
  4. Browse the Media Library directory to display your selection of copied music files in the right pane. Find the first song you want to include, right-click the track name, and then click Add to Playlist.
  5. If you have more than one playlist, click the desired one from the list of playlists displayed. Click OK to add the track to the playlist.
  6. Repeat until you have added all the desired songs. (You can go back later and add more, or delete some, if you choose.)
  7. Click My Playlists to view the contents of your playlist.

To listen to a playlist, simply select it and then click the Play button. The player will move through the list of tracks from top to bottom as you have arranged them.

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