Organizing your digital media files

You can use Windows Media Player to organize digital media files on your computer or network and to organize links to digital media content on the Internet in the following ways:

• Add links to digital media files, including tracks copied from CDs, on your computer, network, or Web sites.
• Create a playlist or auto playlist with the various digital media files on your computer, your network, or the Internet.

The links, playlists, and auto playlists are stored in Media Library, which you can use to store of all the digital media content available from your computer.

Files listed in Media Library are automatically grouped into the following categories: Now Playing, All Music, All Video, Other Media, My Playlists, Auto Playlists, Radio, and Subscriptions. Each of the categories, with the exception of Now Playing, contains subcategories such as artist and genre.

Now Playing lists the item that is currently playing even if the item has not been added to Media Library.

After your digital media files are added to Media Library, you can organize them into playlists, or copy them to CDs or portable devices.

This section covers:

• Adding audio and video to Media Library
• Sorting and finding items in Media Library
• Editing media information
• Working with playlists
• Deleting files in Media Library
• Backing up and restoring licenses

Related topics

• To automatically add files to Media Library when played