finding music files

[Guest]

Can any of you suggest a way for me to find all my music files that I have
copied onto my hard drive?
I seem to have 2 separate Windows Media Players programs, as well as trial
music software that came with the computer- Musicmatch, Realplayer...) and
downloaded songs. They are all over my computer and hard to find. I would
like to gather them all up and put them into ONE WMP program.

I have done a search on my computer for my mp3 files, but I don't know how
to search for songs from my CDs, as I dont know the file extentions. If I do
a search for ALL music, I get windows rings, bleeps , tones, and any other
sound files.
I just want the MUSIC files.

While Im asking for help, how do I delete a program that is not found in the
"Change or Remove Programs" in the Control Panel?

Thank you so very much for your help!

 

[Mike Williams]

Can any of you suggest a way for me to find all my music files that I have
copied onto my hard drive?
I seem to have 2 separate Windows Media Players programs, as well as trial
music software that came with the computer- Musicmatch, Realplayer...) and
downloaded songs. They are all over my computer and hard to find. I would
like to gather them all up and put them into ONE WMP program.

I assume you mean downloaded songs, not all the programs.

I have done a search on my computer for my mp3 files, but I don't know how
to search for songs from my CDs, as I dont know the file extentions. If I do
a search for ALL music, I get windows rings, bleeps , tones, and any other
sound files.
I just want the MUSIC files.

It will depend which programs you used to RIP the CDs and the formats of
the resulting files. There will inevitably be MP3 files, but - depending
on the online stores and ripping programs - there will be other formats.
Not all of these formats will be compatible with WMP and thus WMP will
not search for them.

You could run a general Windows search for all files of extension MP3,
WMA, AAC, FLAC, RM* etc.

While Im asking for help, how do I delete a program that is not found in the
"Change or Remove Programs" in the Control Panel?

This is better directed to the windowsxp.general group with specifics of
the actual program as there are inevitably peculiarities associated with
each program.