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202 Getting to Know the Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005 Listening to Music Creating Your Music Library Using Windows Media® Player Each time you add music files outside of Windows Media Player, you must use the Tools menu to add music files to your Windows Media Player Library. This will ensure that Media Center can find them. To add music files: 1 Click Start on the taskbar, and then click Windows Media Player. 2 Click the Library tab at the top of the window. The first time you select the media Library, a message tells you that Windows Media Player needs to search your computer for your music files. 3 Click Yes. Windows Media Player searches for all available audio media and places them in the Media Library. 4 To add files from a CD to your Media Library, insert the CD, select Copy from CD, and then select Copy Music in the toolbar. You can select to copy your music files as MPEG Audio Layer 3 (.mp3) or Windows Media Audio (.wma) files. 5 Click the Library tab to see where your new audio files have been placed. You can rename files by selecting the file and typing a new name or genre over the old one. The way you label your music files determines the category in which they are placed. Your added music files can now be found and played back using My Music in Media Center.You may need to close and open Media Center for the added music files to appear in My Music. For more information about adding music files to the Media Library, use the Windows Media Player Help menu.

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Getting to Know the Windows ® XP Media Center Edition 2005
Listening to Music
Creating Your Music Library Using Windows Media
®
Player
Each time you add music files outside of Windows Media
Player, you must use the Tools menu to add music files to
your Windows Media Player Library. This will ensure that
Media Center can find them.
To add music files:
1
Click
Start
on the taskbar, and then click
Windows
Media Player
.
2
Click the
Library
tab at the top of the window. The first
time you select the media Library, a message tells you
that Windows Media Player needs to search your
computer for your music files.
3
Click
Yes
. Windows Media Player searches for all
available audio media and places them in the Media
Library.
4
To add files from a CD to your Media Library, insert the
CD, select
Copy from CD
, and then select
Copy Music
in the toolbar. You can select to copy your music files as
MPEG Audio Layer 3 (.mp3) or Windows Media Audio
(.wma) files.
5
Click the
Library
tab to see where your new audio files
have been placed. You can rename files by selecting the
file and typing a new name or genre over the old one. The
way you label your music files determines the category in
which they are placed.
Your added music files can now be found and played back
using My Music in Media Center.You may need to close and
open Media Center for the added music files to appear in My
Music.
For more information about adding music files to the Media
Library, use the Windows Media Player Help menu.