Even better yet. With Media player and Windows Explorer showing on the
desktop. Create your blank playlist by pressing Ctrl + N. Name it. Go to
Windows Explorer. Click on the first file you want to play. If the files
are in contiguous order, press the Shift key and Click on the last file in
the list. (If you don't want all files in contiguous order, hold the Ctrl
key down and single click on each file name). Once the files are
highlighted, drag the mass by clicking and holding the left mouse key down
on any of the highlighted filenames and move the mouse to the right side of
the playlist window (where the filenames go.) This will populate your play
list. To play the files simply click the playlist dropdown, find the
playlist you just created and click the play icon.
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"L. A. Powell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Don't have any elegant solutions, though here's how to accomplish what
> you want:
>
> In Windows Explorer, go to the folder containing the mp3 files. Using
> Ctrl+left click, select your files in the order you want, then click the
> right mouse button, and select "Play" or "Queue-it-Up".
>
>
> "The Cerebral Ass ©" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I am so incredibly frustrated with Windows Media Player.
> >
> > I have 11 MP3's in a folder. All I want to do is play them in
> succession.
> > THAT'S ALL. I *don't* need any special effects on the songs, I *don*t*
> need
> > the biographies of the authors, and I *don't* need to know where I can
> buy
> > the full album. I JUST WANT TO PLAY THE SONGS IN ORDER.
> >
> > Highlighting all of them and opening them will only play the last one
> > selected.
> >
> > Obviously, I need to create a playlist. But that opens a WHOLE NEW can
> of
> > worms.
> >
> > First, I find that there is NO OBVIOUS METHOD of adding songs to a new
> > playlist by browsing the computer in the traditional Windows way. WMP
> tries
> > to do the thinking for you, and impress you by listing every song on
> your
> > computer by order of album name, artist name, artist's birthday or
> artist's
> > favorite foods. If it could tell you what room that artist is
> currently
> > sleeping in, I bet it would.
> >
> > That's all fine and dandy, but all I want to do is play my 11 songs,
> all
> > neatly located in one directory. And I can't. Because I have several
> other
> > copies of them spread across my computer, at varying bitrates and
> lengths...
> > and WMP CAN'T TELL THEM APART, as they are all using the same
> filename. And
> > it REFUSES to let me specify that I only want the songs in this
> specific
> > folder.
> >
> > Why in the blue hell can I not tell WMP where the files I want to play
> are
> > located? Why does it insist on trying to do my thinking for me? This
> is the
> > most frustrating experience in a long line of Windows-related
> frustrating
> > experiences (right up there with the WinXP firewall blocking file
> > transfering in MSN Messenger and requiring a 20-minute tutorial on how
> to
> > circumvent this, back when XP first came out).
> >
> > Is there a top-secret hidden option in WMP 9 that will allow you the
> > luxury - nay, the PRIVILEDGE - of picking exactly what folder the
> songs you
> > want to add to your playlist are located in?
> >
> >
>
>
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