Explorer Media Player 12

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Windows 7 Best Feature Windows Media Player 12:

By using windows media player 12 collect, manage, and play music have become a lot of fun now. You can enhance collection of all your favorite videos, songs, make custom CDs from those songs, or copy them to a portable MP3 player. You can use your media player 12 as a stereo to play any songs you like in any order you like. If your computer is part of a network, you can share videos, songs and play them on any computer that’s in the network.

In Windows 7, you can use two programs for collecting and playing music. One is Windows Media Player, the other is Media Center.

Media Player 12 Program Overview:

Microsoft introduced a new media player in windows 7 with a lot of fantastic features. Here you can take a brief introduction of media player how can use this.

New Windows Media Player 12 opens in its own program window and has a taskbar button as well. The new media player has many updated different appearances whatever you like to use.

The features taskbar across the top of the program window represents different areas of Media Player, each of which helps you perform a specific task.

A quick summary of the media player 12 program components is as under:

Navigation Pane: Takes you to your collection of songs and other media files.
Details Pane: Shows details for the currently selected library, album, genre, video, and so on.
List Pane: Shows information about the current play list and item.
Playback controls: Provides controls for playing the currently selected media, and for switching to Now Playing mode.
Play: Shows the movie or video you’re currently watching, or song that is currently playing (if any). You can also rip (copy) CDs to your computer.
Burn: This tab lets you create custom CDs from songs in your media library.
Sync: Use this tab to copy songs and other media files to a portable media player.

Media Player 12 Toolbar:

With Media Player 12 toolbar you quick access to commonly used commands and options. You can change the buttons in the toolbar depending on what you have selected at the moment. Read the brief overview of list features:

Organize: Manage your media libraries, sort media, customize the Navigation pane, change the Player Library layout, and access Media Player options.
Stream: Enable Internet access to your home media and turn on media streaming, which allows you to send your media to other computers on the local network or the Internet.
Create Play-list: Create a playback list (playlist) of media so you can play the selected items as a group. For example, you might create a playlist called My Top 100 that contains 100 of your favorite songs.
Rip CD: Copy music from a CD to your media library on your computer so you can play it from your computer and optionally share it.
Rip Settings: Specify settings to control the way Media Player rips music from CDs to your computer.
View Options: Choose between Icon, title, and Details views for the List pane.
Search: Search for media in your library.
Help: Open Media Player’s Help content.

Media Player 12 Menus:

A brief notes about Windows 7 Media Player 12 is as under:

Play controls

The play controls (famous with playback controls) are at the bottom of Media Player’s program window. They work only when you’re playing a song or video or have selected something to play. They work much like the controls on a VCR, stereo, or DVD player. The exact role of each button varies slightly with the type of content you’re viewing. Here’s what each of the play controls offers:

Seek bar: When content is playing, a green indicator moves along the seek bar. You can click anywhere along the seek bar to jump forward or backward in the playing item. When you point to the end of the green indicator, a button appears. You can drag that button left or right to move back or forward within the item that’s playing.
Shuffle: When selected, multiple songs from the current playlist are played in random order. When turned off, songs from the playlist are played in the same order as in the playlist.
Repeat: When turned on, the same song or playlist plays repeatedly. When turned off, the song or playlist plays only once.
Stop: Stops whatever is playing and rewinds to the beginning.
Previous: Skips back to the previous song in the playlist or DVD chapter. Or, if you point to the button and hold down the left mouse button, plays the current item backwards in fast motion.
Play/Pause: When content is playing, you can click this button to pause playback. Click again to resume playback.
Next: Skips to the next song in the playlist or next chapter on a DVD. Point to this button and hold down the left mouse button to fast forward through the content that’s playing.
Mute: Click to mute playback sound. Click a second time to hear the sound again.
Volume: Drag the handle left or right to increase or decrease the volume.
Now Playing: Switches to Now Playing mode, a simplified version of the Media Player window. Also useful when you want to see a video or DVD played at full-screen size. Once in the full-screen mode, right-click anywhere on the screen and choose Exit Full Screen to return to the Player Library window. Or, click Switch to Library to return to the Player Library window.

Explorer Media Player 12