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.
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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.
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