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Adding Music from Your Hard Drive to, Windows Media Player Library

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Adding Music from Your Hard Drive to Windows Media Player Library You may have already copied and organized your music files on your hard drive. If so, you need to add them to the Windows Media Player Library to access them with the Media Center. To add music files that are stored in your My Music or Shared Music folder on your hard drive: 1 Click Start on the taskbar, and then click Windows Media Player. 2 Move the mouse to view the Windows Media Player toolbar and then click Tools. 3 Select Search for Media Files. 4 Select Search to search all drives or select Browse to search through a specific drive. Select a drive and then click OK. Windows Media Player searches the selected drives for all supported audio files and adds them to the Media Library. If Windows Media Player does not recognize all of your audio files, try copying the files directly into Windows Media Player. Refer to Windows Media Player Help for more information. Your music files can now be found and played in My Music window in the Media Center. You may need to close and open Media Center for the added music files to appear in My Music. n You can place all your music files into the My Music folder or into other folders on your hard drive, but you need to add those files to the Windows Media Player Library for Media Center to be able to find and play them. 43 My Music

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My Music
Adding Music from Your Hard Drive to
Windows Media Player Library
n
You can place all your music files
into the My Music folder or into
other folders on your hard drive,
but you need to add those files to
the Windows Media Player Library
for Media Center to be able to find
and play them.
You may have already copied and organized
your music files on your hard drive. If so, you
need to add them to the Windows Media
Player Library to access them with the Media
Center.
To add music files that are stored in your
My Music or Shared Music folder on your
hard drive:
1
Click
Start
on the taskbar,
and then click
Windows Media Player
.
2
Move the mouse to view the Windows
Media Player toolbar and then click
Tools
.
3
Select
Search for Media Files
.
4
Select
Search
to search all drives or select
Browse
to search through a specific drive.
Select a drive and then click
OK
. Windows
Media Player searches the selected drives
for all supported audio files and adds them
to the Media Library.
If Windows Media Player does not
recognize all of your audio files, try
copying the files directly into Windows
Media Player. Refer to Windows Media
Player Help for more information.
Your music files can now be found and played
in My Music window in the Media Center. You
may need to close and open Media Center for
the added music files to appear in My Music.