How Listening a CD in Windows Media Player 12
How Listening a CD in Windows Media Player 12
Explorer Media Player 12 Guide
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(Very useful tips to use the windows media player 12)
Useful Tips to Playing music with Media Player
Windows Media Player 12 Guide:
Media player introduce new features & way to run a music CD / audio CD on the media player. To listen to a music CD, just put it in your CD drive, label side up, and close the drive door. Then wait a few seconds. Windows Media Player might open and start playing the CD automatically. However, other things could happen:
Playing, Visualizations, and Enhancements in Windows Media Player 12
When music is playing, Media Player by default shows the album art, if available, in the Now Playing window. However, you can instead watch a visualization of the music. The visualization is a pattern of colors and shapes that change in rhythm to the music. Media Player 12 offers many visualizations from which to choose.
To try a different visualization, first make sure that you’re viewing the Now Playing window (press Alt and choose View O Now Playing). Then right-click in the Now Playing window and choose Visualizations, then choose an option from the resulting cascading menu.
Regardless of which method you use, you’ll see a menu of visualization names. Clicking a name displays a submenu of still more visualizations. Just pick any one to see how it looks. Go ahead and try a bunch while a song is playing to find one you like.
Using the Playlist in Now Playing view (Media Player 12)
When you’re playing a music CD in Now Playing view, the playlist pane to the right of the visualization shows songs from the CD. That pane is optional. To show or hide that pane, right-click in the Now Playing window and choose Show List.
In the playlist pane, you might see the song titles, you might just see more generic names like Trackl, Track2, and so forth. Many CDs don’t have song titles stored on CD, so the song title shave to be downloaded from the Internet. You’ll only see song titles if they are available on the CD or have been downloaded from the Internet.
Using Enhancements in Media Player 12
While you’re listening to music and are in the Now Playing area, you can also use Enhancements to adjust the sound and perform other tasks. The many Enhancements windows are invisible until you open them.
To show or hide Enhancements, right-click in the Now Playing window and choose Enhancements. Or, press Alt to open the menu bar, and then choose View O Enhancements from Media Player’s menu. When the Enhancements menu is open, you can choose which type of enhancement you want to see. Your options are summarized here:
- Cross fading and Auto Volume Leveling: When Cross fading is turned on, one song gradually fades out while the next song fades in. Auto Volume Leveling keeps songs at roughly equal volumes.
- Graphic Equalizer: Adjust the relative strengths of low, middle, and high tones. Optionally, click Default and choose a music type such as Rock or Classical. Click Reset to return to the default settings.
- Play Speed Settings: Use this to adjust the play speed of content. This option only works when playing .wma, .wmv, .wm, .mpe,and .asf files. Careful with this one. You don’t want all your albums sounding like The Chipmunks!
- Quiet Mode: Adjusts the audio dynamic range of music (the difference between the loudest and softest sounds). You’d most likely use this option when listening to headphones or watching a movie in Media Player.
- SRS WOW Effects: When activated, SRS WOW effects add depth to your music. This one is definitely worth turning on and trying out if you have good speakers attached to your system.
- Video Settings: Adjust the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, and size of video when viewing a movie or video in Media Player.
- Dolby Digital Settings: Choose between three options that adjust the audio range for different listening situations.
The selected Enhancements appear in a separate window. You can cycle through the various Enhancements options by clicking the Next or Previous buttons in the upper-left corner of the Enhancements window.
Play CDs automatically with Media Player 12
Media Player opens and plays music CDs automatically, you need to make Media Player the default player for CDs.
- Click the Start button and choose Control Panel.
- Click Hardware and Sound.
- Click AutoPlay.
- Next to Audio CD, choose Play Audio CD using Windows Media Player.
- If you also want Media Player to play DVDs automatically, next to DVD Movie choose Play DVD Video Using Windows Media Player.
- Click the Save button.
- Close Control Panel.
From that point on, whenever you put a music CD in your CD drive, Windows Media Player should open and play the CD automatically.