Media Players Websken 6/9/2007 9:54:01 PM My new computer is running Vista Home Premium and it's taking a bit of getting used to but one of the problems is that I appear to have about four Media Players on here which I'm finding very confusing. I presume that Windows Media Players comes as standard. However, if I want to listen to the BBC, they seem to prefer Real Player. I have downloaded this and although it's fine for listening to broadcasts, when I go into Music Library I seem to have duplicate, triplicate and even quadruplicate copies of 'My Music'. Then, because I have an IPod, I also have ITunes on here with yet more lists of My Music. Finally, there is something else called 'Roxio Home Creator' and although I haven't actually looked into this too deeply, I believe this will also produce results from 'My Music'. What I would like to know is, do I really need all these programs? I've got to the point where I'm now losing the will to live everytime I try and read all this bumf so perhaps someone could point me in the right direction. Regards. -- Websken

Re: Media Players Adam Albright <AA[ at ]ABC.net> 6/10/2007 3:29:16 AM On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 14:54:01 -0700, Websken <Websken[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >My new computer is running Vista Home Premium and it's taking a bit of >getting used to but one of the problems is that I appear to have about four >Media Players on here which I'm finding very confusing. > >I presume that Windows Media Players comes as standard. However, if I want >to listen to the BBC, they seem to prefer Real Player. I have downloaded >this and although it's fine for listening to broadcasts, when I go into Music >Library I seem to have duplicate, triplicate and even quadruplicate copies of >'My Music'. > >Then, because I have an IPod, I also have ITunes on here with yet more lists >of My Music. > >Finally, there is something else called 'Roxio Home Creator' and although I >haven't actually looked into this too deeply, I believe this will also >produce results from 'My Music'. > >What I would like to know is, do I really need all these programs? > >I've got to the point where I'm now losing the will to live everytime I try >and read all this bumf so perhaps someone could point me in the right >direction. > >Regards. Different strokes for different folks. ;-) What programs you install depends on what you want to do and also to a great extent on your experience level. For example I have over a dozen different players and each does certain things the others don't at all or as well. Media Player is basic and free. Real Player is free too. Roxio makes a suite of application that mainly do CD/DVD copying/burning. If you have multiple copies of your music or anything for that matter that suggests you haven't altered WHERE you store your data so each application just does it's own thing. EVERY Windows based program should allow you to set up a folder and automatically gets downloads or stores files regardless on what hard drive you put it. VERY simple to set up. Assume you want to store your music in a folder named Music. Go to Windows Explorer, make a new folder, call it music. Now in EVERY application you use direct it's download folder or use the "save as" option and it will bring up the directory tree and you simply click on which folder you want the files stored and give it a name you want it to have. This is all very basic Windows stuff and isn't new to Vista.

Re: Media Players Websken 6/10/2007 5:02:02 AM Many thanks for the explanation; greatly appreciated. Regards, Websken "Adam Albright" wrote: [Quoted Text] > On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 14:54:01 -0700, Websken > <Websken[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > >My new computer is running Vista Home Premium and it's taking a bit of > >getting used to but one of the problems is that I appear to have about four > >Media Players on here which I'm finding very confusing. > > > >I presume that Windows Media Players comes as standard. However, if I want > >to listen to the BBC, they seem to prefer Real Player. I have downloaded > >this and although it's fine for listening to broadcasts, when I go into Music > >Library I seem to have duplicate, triplicate and even quadruplicate copies of > >'My Music'. > > > >Then, because I have an IPod, I also have ITunes on here with yet more lists > >of My Music. > > > >Finally, there is something else called 'Roxio Home Creator' and although I > >haven't actually looked into this too deeply, I believe this will also > >produce results from 'My Music'. > > > >What I would like to know is, do I really need all these programs? > > > >I've got to the point where I'm now losing the will to live everytime I try > >and read all this bumf so perhaps someone could point me in the right > >direction. > > > >Regards. > > Different strokes for different folks. ;-) > > What programs you install depends on what you want to do and also to a > great extent on your experience level. For example I have over a dozen > different players and each does certain things the others don't at all > or as well. Media Player is basic and free. Real Player is free too. > Roxio makes a suite of application that mainly do CD/DVD > copying/burning. > > If you have multiple copies of your music or anything for that matter > that suggests you haven't altered WHERE you store your data so each > application just does it's own thing. EVERY Windows based program > should allow you to set up a folder and automatically gets downloads > or stores files regardless on what hard drive you put it. VERY simple > to set up. Assume you want to store your music in a folder named > Music. Go to Windows Explorer, make a new folder, call it music. Now > in EVERY application you use direct it's download folder or use the > "save as" option and it will bring up the directory tree and you > simply click on which folder you want the files stored and give it a > name you want it to have. This is all very basic Windows stuff and > isn't new to Vista. > >